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Geraldine Birch

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Geraldine Birch has been writing since the age of ten, pecking away on an old Remington typewriter in the cozy kitchen nook of her grandmother’s house in Los Angeles. A glutton for punishment, she served as the editor-in-chief of her junior high, high school and college newspaper.

After graduation from Los Angeles Pierce College, she worked as a reporter and editor for various newspapers in the Los Angeles area: the Simi Valley Enterprise, The Tolucan, the Moorpark Mirror, and as a freelance writer for the Ventura County Bureau of the Los Angeles Times. All of those entities, including the Ventura County Bureau of the Los Angeles Times, sadly, are no longer in existence.

After receiving her B.A. degree in political science from California Lu ...more

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Nearly sixty years ago, with great excitement, my husband and I planned a trip to Death Valley National Park to see its wondrous sights—the colorful clay and mudstone badlands, the vast salt flats and treacherous canyons, the stark, windblown sand dunes. On our way to Death Valley from Los Angeles, we passed large groups of…

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