Colleen OConnor

Colleen O'Connor is a retired college professor.

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Christmas is ‘The Point’ at Point Loma’s Portuguese Hall Celebration

This is an independent commentary. Have one of your own? Email it to hoa@ivn.us In the age of the COVID-19 pandemic, everyone is tasked with re-imagining the future. Drive-in movies, flu shots. Take out and to go orders. Outdoor weddings and family gatherings. Christmas celebrations might be full

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Today’s Grapes of Wrath Descendants: The Insecure Future is Now

This is an independent opinion. Want to respond? Write your own commentary! Email hoa@ivn.us. John Steinbeck’s 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and film by the same name, “The Grapes of Wrath,” is considered one of the greatest American films of all time for being "culturally, historically, or