by JHowatt | Sep 17, 2021 | Life Style
Emily for Mayor! June 2019. The minute the announcement appeared in our local paper, I knew the perfect candidate for Mayor of the Springville Dog Park was living with us: a black and white Havanese Terrier named Emily who we rescued from a shelter in Thousand Oaks... 
by JHowatt | Aug 27, 2021 | Life Style
A Day in Masai Village: Patty-Cake and Two Women Tending Their Cattle July 2018. Our National Geographic tour guide prepared us for our visit to the Masai Village in Tanzania even before we left the United States. We received an email that asked each of us to bring... 
by JHowatt | Aug 17, 2021 | Crime Writing
Coffee with Cops at McDonald’s I decided I’d focus my next three or four articles on the LAPD’s Community Outreach program because policing is front-page news these days. Communities are struggling to find a way to find middle ground between cops who use too... 
by JHowatt | Jul 23, 2021 | Crime Writing
Jigsaw Takes Jane Down Memory Lane: Old Los Angles House on Harvard Street: Where Jigsaw Grew Up. One of the things I loved to talk about with Jigsaw, was the difference between old and new Los Angeles. On this particular day–and for no reason I can think of–I asked... 
by JHowatt | Jul 9, 2021 | Crime Writing
Jigsaw and Jane Hit the Big Apple November 30, 1983. I sat with John St. John in a New York Yellow Cab headed to our first appointment of the day: M. Evans, publisher at Contemporary Books on 49th Street in New York. St. John was in the Big Apple at the invitation of...