Columns

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

By Gary Stewart Imagine being on a 61-foot-long vessel in the midst of the seemingly endless Pacific Ocean with no engine, no compass, no sextant,...

Let (_?__) Do It! We all have regrets in life, but I have a lingering one related to my service on the city council in...

By George, Laguna Needs an Environmental Leader as Mayor Bob Gentry, Lida Lenney, Toni Iseman: all three were local officials and environmental activists. In my...

Together We Saved Laguna Canyon – Nov. 11, 1989 By Gene Felder Each of us who were there on that eventful day November 11, 1989 will...