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Holiday Digest: Memories can love you back

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By Jackie Bayless A scrawny, Charlie Brown kind of Christmas tree stood lopsided in the sand. It was to the right of Aliso Creek, flowing...

Opinion: It’s personal. Remembering JFK

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By Denny Freidenrich Nov. 22 was the 60th anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination in Dallas. I was only 15 at the time, but I remember...

Holiday Digest: Thanksgiving Past

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By Patricia Truman An old-fashioned phone didn’t offer privacy, but area teens could figure out which beach they would meet at while talking to one...

Holiday Digest: At the Table

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By Cecile Sarruf  Autumn leaves dance off sycamore trees and scuttle along a festive Forest Avenue promenade. Enthused locals stroll the last of summer into...

Holiday Digest: Gratitude and Light in Laguna

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By Susan Heiligman It’s an early sunset during the Thanksgiving holiday, and those marvelous limited hours of daylight are to be relished. We would often...

Holiday Digest: Paper Pilgrims

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By Heather Hagen A couple of vintage post-Depression 1930s folding tissue paper and cartoon pilgrims, one man, one woman, decorates a side table below the...

Holiday Digest: Thanksgiving Story

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By Amy Schwarzstein-Capron The number three is my favorite number. It’s my magic number in numerology, and I am the youngest of three, and I...

Opinion: Veterans Day is Every Day in District 5 – We’re Here to Help

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By Katrina Foley, Orange County Supervisor Supporting the 105,000 veterans here in Orange County remains a top priority for my office. When I joined the board...

Opinion: Happiness as a Hypothesis 

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It’s Not Healthy to be Happy All the Time  By Melissa Harris  Twenty years ago, I was a single mom of a five-year-old. My days were...

Opinion: Wisdom Workout 

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Come Home to Yourself  Are you familiar with the term Machiavellianism? The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as “the employment of cunning and duplicity in...

Opinion: Green Light

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Laguna Moves on Climate Action Plan On Nov. 14, the front page of my Los Angeles Times ran a stark photo of a burned forest...

Opinion: Two Legs

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As I was walking into Vons’s supermarket in north Laguna, a woman named Christine Kelton stopped me and asked my name. When I told...

Opinion: The Post Office and the Street Gang 

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By Annlia Hill  Walter E. Parke followed Baird Coffin as Laguna Postmaster in 1953. Under his leadership, the post office moved from Broadway to 570...

Opinion: Finding Meaning 

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An Impulsive Side Trip  It started with a roof leak in an easy-to-ignore overhanging edge. Years passed, a tribute to my procrastination skill, and then...

Opinion: Dear Susi Q asks the question

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What’s the best advice you could give an advice columnist?  Lynette Brasfield answers: Take a hike! A few weeks ago, I hiked 2,300 feet up to Tahquitz...