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-Second in a series- By Donald H. Harrison ENCINITAS, California — Gardeners sometimes will debate whether certain “companion plants” will help each other.  For example, will planting onions really ward off insect pests that feast on bean plants?  However, at the San Diego Botanic Garden here,  there is general agreement that a genuinely symbiotic relationship […]

    Story and photos by Donald H. Harrison ENCINITAS, California — The Treehouse at the San Diego Botanic Garden here might have been called “The Leichtag Family Foundation’s Treehouse” but Rabbi Lenore Bohm says that wouldn’t have been in keeping with Toni Leichtag’s lack of  pretentiousness. Instead, Bohm suggested, and fellow members of the

Thirty Six by Kristopher White (art: George Zapata, color: Micki Zurcher); Fossil Creek Productions, 2012, ISBN 978-0-9853612-0-4; 132 pages, $18.99. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — With current movies often focusing on Super Heroes, each seemingly more glamorous and powerful that the next, Kristopher White has reached into Jewish tradition and legend to present

    By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– It is hard to know whether Cole Thorpe, 11, will ever play professional baseball, or be one of the world’s greatest baseball fans like Andy Strasberg was and is, but there was one thing  for certain on Tuesday evening, August 28, as the youngster choked up on

  Old Lives and New: Soviet Immigrants in Israel and America by Edith Rogovin Frankel, Hamilton Books, 2012, ISBN 978-0-7618-5784-6, pp 207. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — I am going to have to unlearn old reading habits.  Someone — was it a parent, or a teacher? — told me when I was a

    Sixth and last in a series By Donald H. Harrison TECATE, Mexico — Not all the teaching that goes on at the Rancho La Puerta health spa here is by the ranch’s exercise instructors or professional lecturers. A lot of it occurs serendipitously.  Guests who have the choice of sitting at large group