Green Light
Climate Activists Accept Another Inconvenient Truth
What a week. Washington, D.C. in June was abuzz with throngs of climate change activists who came to the...
Pet Peeves
A Boatload
Sometimes more news reveals itself between Indy stories. Last week was an example. I read the Indy’s “Human Smugglers Return to Crystal Cove.” Followed...
Just for Laughs
Read the Personals
HELP ME PROPOSE TO MY GIRLFRIEND. Flash mob of talented singers, dancers and musicians wanted for event at Heisler Park gazebo, Laguna...
Taking Stock
Dow Reverses Year’s Gains
This week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average went negative for 2018. In contrast, the broader S&P 500 is currently up 3%...
Village Matters
It Can All be Joyous
“It’s fun just like Hospitality Night except it isn’t cold.”
That was my unsophisticated review of last Saturday’s Fete de la...
Does the Wet Suit You
Crank Call
Those cable guys have been trying hard to get subscribers of their phone service to allow them to install new equipment inside our...
Heart Talk
A Place of Healing and Warmth
“Good morning James, what can we do for you?” This is not the type of greeting that most patients...
Pet Peeves
Designs on You
I was sitting in my living room reading the Indy article “Let Laguna Live.” The column written by Michael Ray points out...
Just for Laughs
Read the Personals
FATHER’S DAY SPECIAL: Give Dad a gift box filled with some of his favorites: Slinky. Rubik’s Cube, antacids, beefy jerky, Rogaine, a...
The Kibitzer
The Final ‘Parts Unknown’
“But Marlow was not typical (if his propensity to spin yarns be excepted), and to him the meaning of an episode...
Finding Meaning
Climbing Everest
It’s graduation season. Laguna Beach High students gathered for baccalaureate service last Sunday. Baccalaureate services have a long history, dating to the 14thcentury...
Let Laguna Live
Almost everyone already knows about the horrors of the city’s Design Review Board. That is because anyone who has gone through it hates it...
Covenants
You know that old service station on Coast Highway? The one of ‘40s era maritime design? Our son would take his BMW 1600 there...
Pet Peeves
It was inappropriate of me to giggle while reading the Indy’s “Artist Riled Over Damaged Sawdust Festival Mural.” But I’ve been there. No I...
Village Matters
From One World to Another
Last Saturday we pulled into Shady Lane RV Camp just north of Barstow looking for the road to Fort Irwin.
This...