Chris Erskine is a longtime humor columnist who mines the rich worlds of fatherhood, marriage, and suburbia for his columns that are featured weekly in the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune (and that appear in many other papers nationwide). A father of four and a resident of a quiet L.A. suburb, he is also a staff editor and writer at the Los Angeles Times and the author of Man of the House and Surviving Suburbia.
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In the late 1990s, the town of Mammoth Lakes, California, hired Steve Searles as a hunter to cull half its troublesome bear population. But as he began to prepare for the grim task, the bears soon won him over, and Searles realized there had to be a bette... SEE MORE