Articles by Elizabeth Ireland

Dave Gatzke vividly remembers the Friday afternoon he and his husband, Tony, drove up from San Diego to Cedars Sinai, walked into the nursery, and held their son, Ethan, for the first time. Three years later, they were in the delivery room when their daughter Evelyn “Evie” was born. “The whole process of adoption can be a little impersonal and dehumanizing, for very valid reasons – to make sure children are being placed safely in a loving home, regardless of sexual orientation,” Gatzke shared. ...

Her son’s third birthday party and his preschool field trip, those are the SeaWorld memories Anna M. holds dear. As a season passholder, she gushed about how fortunate children in San Diego are to get exposure to animals up close between the Zoo and SeaWorld. “They aren’t just reading about them in a book or watching them on TV. My son has seen a real-life manatee. I didn’t know what a manatee was at his age!” said Anna, who preferred not to disclose her full name to protect her privacy. The c...

There was a line out the door in January when Savy and Tam Huynh opened Pho on the Go, a restaurant steps away from the Otay Mesa Port of Entry. With 17 million people crossing the border each year, 3.4 million on foot, the couple saw potential in the often-forgotten part of San Diego County. The Huynhs’ momentum came to a grinding halt on March 21 when binational border restrictions on nonessential travel were put into place because of COVID-19. Each month, as the deadline grows near, border b...