Rick Thomas
Author Rick Thomas is the former museum curator and vice-chair of education for the South Pasadena Preservation Foundation. He served on the South Pasadena Natural Resources Commission, helping to maintain a strict policy protecting the city’s great old-growth trees. Using touchstone photographs from his own collection—one of the San Gabriel Valley’s largest accumulations of historical images and artifacts—as well as national, state, and local historical archives, Thomas provides a window to his city’s past and an understanding of why its preservation is so important.
A World Less Certain | Magic Bus
Since my stroke last month, I’ve been thinking about the world and our power to change lives.
Whether it is the unseen killer of our current pandemic, or the untimely killer I survived a few...
A World Less Certain | On Thin Ice
During the pandemic, we are all walking on thin ice, some more than others. In my case, I didn't know until...THE STROKE.
A couple of weeks ago, I was putting the finishing touches on my...
A World Less Certain | Rats on Parade
My brain is viewed by many as tainted because of my upbringing. I am white, male, and elderly - I lean liberal but vote conservative. My party preference does not exist. Some people think...
A World Less Certain | The Perfect Storm
Spring is ending with an early sweet summer breeze – only to be set ablaze at the end of May.
After weathering months of stay-at-home orders, Los Angeles residents are now adapting to the new-new...
A World Less Certain | Whiplash Flashback
In the song "Yesterday" by the Beatles substitute love with the word life.
Yesterday, life was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away
Oh, I believe in yesterday
Like all ridiculous love songs,...
A World Less Certain | Human Sacrifice
Wouldn’t it be awesome to rev up our engines and lay a patch of smoldering rubber on the road to economic recovery? Everyone busy working and playing again. Hell yeah!
If we do that, though,...
A World Less Certain | Pandemic Politics
Our hardship, at the moment, feels like forever. It’s been two months since the state’s closure orders, and many of us have had enough.
When the economy was humming three months ago, the United States...
A World Less Certain | A New Civil War
There is a great divide in our country. And it’s not the chasm between rich and poor, conservative and liberal, meat-eaters and vegans, or even atheists and people of faith.
Until recently, a vast majority...
A World Less Certain | Mask Etiquette
The Dark Side of the Force is stronger than the Light Side, but it is corrupt and will weaken over time. The Jedi are leaders and peacekeepers. Help them destroy the fallen Jedi, Darth...
A World Less Certain | Connie Corona Meets Stu “The Spanish Flu”
S: Busy girl.
C: I’m hardly a girl you sexiest pig!
S: I came of age during the teens in the 19th century. I mean no disrespect. Quite the opposite. My compliments to you in your...
