Patricia Bunin

1 month ago | sgvtribune.com | Patricia Bunin

“I’m going to be a little late for our celebration,” I texted my daughter. “Mom, are you OK?”“More or less,” I responded as I took my place at the end of a very long line. The DMV is the common denominator of all people who need to drive. Neither age, ethnicity nor financial standing supersedes the need to get your license renewed.

1 month ago | modbee.com | Patricia Bunin |West Covina

"You always made things fun," my little brother, as I still call him, said in his Mother's Day message to me. I responded by telling him he was the first person I ever mothered. Peter, the surprise baby who came along eight years after me, brought out my earliest maternal instincts. "Do you remember our ‘Johnny on the Pony 1-2-3' game?" I asked him.

1 month ago | sgvtribune.com | Patricia Bunin

”You always made things fun,” my little brother, as I still call him, said in his Mother’s Day message to me. I responded by telling him he was the first person I ever mothered. Peter, the surprise baby who came along eight years after me, brought out my earliest maternal instincts. “Do you remember our ‘Johnny on the Pony 1-2-3’ game?” I asked him.

1 month ago | sgvtribune.com | Patricia Bunin

Although this will be the second Mother’s Day we’ve spent together, Katelyn Watkins and I still haven’t figured out which one of us is the mother. Katelyn, my friend in the night, and I met several years ago at about 2:30 a.m. when I emailed a writing submission to TELEPHONE, an international arts project where she is an editor. Middle-of-the-night communiques are not unusual for me, but getting a response about 15 minutes later was a surprise. Who was this person who also wrote in the night?

1 month ago | dailybreeze.com | Patricia Bunin

Why Jack Kirby is one of the most important American artists of the past 100 years