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Welcome to My Niche

By Jeeni Criscenzo Wow! I passed muster with the editors of San Diego Free Press and this marks my inaugural weekly column. I’ve been told I can write about whatever I want, so expect the unexpected,...

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It’s Not Socialism, It’s Democratic Capitalism

In a recent interview about the groundswell of popularity for Bernie Sanders, Richard Wolff, author of “Democracy at Work, a Cure for Capitalism,” opined that we are seeing a new form of socialism that...

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The Swarm

By Jeeni Criscenzo How about something lighter this week? Any analogies in this story to present day issues are purely coincidental and of your own making. This morning (Sunday) I was browsing through...

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Dreams and Nightmares on Medi-Cal

It has been my dream, since my husband and I first started dating, to go with him to visit the ancient Maya sites that I wrote about 25 years ago in my novel, Place of Mirrors. Though we planned the...

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Lazy Fare in the Garden: Just Let It Be

By Jeeni Criscenzo Ever since I read the book Noah’s Garden by Sara Stein, I’ve taken a more laissez-faire attitude toward gardening. While I haven’t let my garden return back to its...

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Checkmate

Mr Trump This is for Rosie O’Donnell and Megyn Kelly and all the women verbally abused by Donald Trump and other bullies like him. Mr. Trump We used to call people like you, “Know-it-alls”. You know,...

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Traumatized

The first time I was accused of being a privileged white woman, I was defensive. I tried to explain all of the non-privileged experiences I’ve endure in my life, despite the fact that I am white. But...

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But First …

Living with ADHD in a distractive world By Jeeni Criscenzo I was surprised at the number of comments made to a recent post I put on Facebook about Attention Deficient Disorder with a photo of my desk...

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Iconic Vision or Elitist Tunnel Vision? The Future of Downtown’s East Village...

By Jeeni Criscenzo Who could possibly be against a park? A bit of open space to take a stroll; rest on a bench and breathe in the fresh air; enjoy the peace and quiet… Maybe that’s what most of us...

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Back to Homeless and Hopeless in San Diego

By Jeeni Criscenzo A week ago, I was sitting in the Denny’s across the street from Howard Johnsons in Chula Vista, waiting for Tracy (name changed), an Army veteran Amikas had been assisting for almost...

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San Diego’s Police Citizen Review Board Falls Short on Transparency,...

Opportunity to provide citizen input at September 23 meeting By Jeeni Criscenzo Four years ago today (September 17, 2011) the Occupy movement began in New York City’s Zuccotti Park in Wall Street. Like...

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Lively Hoods

By Jeeni Criscenzo Lively Hoods Why are we asking for jobs? Most jobs are a lopsided trade agreement where we relinquish the majority of our waking hours, and our labor and talent to make someone else...

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Random Acts of Kindess

By Jeeni Criscenzo Thoughts while enjoying the super moon during the lunar eclipse of Sept. 27, 2015 Although raised Roman Catholic and indoctrinated with 12 years of Catechism classes in parochial...

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Planning My Garden for an El Niño Winter

By Jeeni Criscenzo Now that my knee is healing, and the weather is cooling off a bit, my attention is turning back to my garden. Knee problems aside, the oppressive heat of the past two months pretty...

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Race to the Bottom

By Jeeni Criscenzo Driving back to San Diego from a conference in Fresno down 99 through the San Joaquin Valley, you’d have to be sleep-driving not to see it – the Death Valley of California. Miles...

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Wonder Where San Diego’s Redevelopment Money Went?

...Not to address homelessness By Jeeni Criscenzo/ Part one of a series Since the statewide dissolution of redevelopment agencies in 2011 Katheryn Rhodes, a local advocate for homeless people, has been...

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It Was in the Back of my Mind …

By Jeeni Criscenzo It was in the back of my mind in line with everything I've meant to do, to visit you and get a personal tour of your gardens. But days flew by and well, you know how it goes, though...

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Geo-Poetic Spaces: My Family Thinks I’m a Pot Farmer

Got to wonder if my family has a contact high when they call out of purple haze to ask if I'm a marijuana farmer Hydroponically speaking I don't have a pot to piss in not that I'm opposed to organic...

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Surviving Sudden Poverty

By Jeeni Criscenzo While trainloads of Americans, who never expected to make the journey from the complacency of middle class to the downward spiral of poverty are trying to figure out how this could...

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San Diego’s Hidden Homeless

Homeless women and children undercounted and underserved. It looks like the issue of homelessness will be getting some airtime during the 2016 election season in San Diego. That should be good news for...

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