Tag: The Berkeley Chronicals
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Berkeley Episode 3: The Crack Pixie
Of all the people who lived in the house I was probably the closest to Sarah Beth. She grew up in a somewhat small town with a mother who clung to Sarah Beth and her sister only slightly more tenaciously than she clung to the ghosts of her family’s wealthy and glorious past. Sarah Beth’s…
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Berkeley Episode 2: The Landlord Returns
After the episode with the Hole-y Stairs we learned we shouldn’t rely on Burt to fix things. When the kittens pulled the curtains down in the living room we put them back up with no problem. When the pliers we were using to shut off the kitchen sink water no longer did the job, Sarah…
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A Berkeley Episode: The Landlord
I moved to Berkeley in 1997. For the first year, I lived in a sort of communal house in El Cerrito by the BART station. It was a 5 bedroom house painted a butter-white stucco with a one-car garage that the owner had finished out into a 6th bedroom. I lived in that 6th bedroom.…
Mindy Carlson 