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About me

Janet Grischy is the Channel Manager for Personal Morals and Values. A suburban California writer, she is interested in architecture, landscapes, climate, and history, and particularly in the ways the environment shapes people’s behavior and beliefs.

Please take a look at the Personal Morals and Values Channel, where writers share their ideas and opinions about what is important, how human beings should behave, and whether anyone should ever say “should.” It’s a place to write about what makes us human.

Briefly me

I know too much about ...

nothing. Like the character in "Crystal Skull", I want to know more.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

I read detective stories, and science fiction, the phone book if I can't fall asleep

My first job ...

Brushing my grandmother's long thick hair. She paid a quarter.

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Does the best poetry come from the heart or from the mind? by Rachel Carroll
Understanding the meaning of creativity by Mark Weaver
Writing articles that earn high ratings at Helium by Jennifer Claerr
Memoirs: Sharing job experiences and recommendations by Tao Li
The art of punctuation by Chris Pearce
What's the best defense against burglars in your home: Alarm system or dog? by Ted Sherman

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Local Guides > San Jose The geography of San Jose, CA: 1 of 1

West of San Jose, between it and the Pacific, rise the Santa Cruz Mountains. Their ridges run northwest to southeast, covered with Douglas fir, oak, manzanita, madrone, and patches of ancient redwood trees. Ghostly seafogs hang in the canyons and peek over the ridges, but never reach San Jose. The hills are cut by the San Andreas Fault, and rise to flat-topped Mount Umunhum, which the Ohlone named The Place Where the Hummingbird Rests. Some south-facing slopes are chaparral, some mountain valleys are filled with rushing streams and almost everywhere is poison oak. East of San Jose, dry foo...
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