Columns

Kids at Halloween When our children were young, we kept a cardboard box for each one. The boxes were a place to save the stuff...

Hotels Are Our Friends The Museum Hotel’s plans received their obligatory initial thumping at a recent Planning Commission airing of age old grievances and tropes....

This Little Piggy I like to run my piggies through cool, green grass. Feels good. So, my feet and the rest of me were relieved...

Keep an Open Mind Art by its nature is subjective. In 1874, the Salon de Paris, the arbiter of good taste, culture and fine art,...

Striving for Perfection “La Bayadere” includes one of the “most iconic and breathtaking scenes in classical ballet.” Thirty-two dancers in identical filmy white costumes enter...

Reader’s Digester The City Council went 3-2 on the sewer digester. This confused residents only familiar with Number 1 or Number 2. “I’ve never heard...

Husbands Not Listening In my untiring search for meaning, I dropped in on a women’s Bible study group a while back. Being unusually gracious women,...

High Tides The city’s upcoming rethink of Main Beach Park is an opportunity to address the predicted effects of climate warming and sea level rise...

Do you think your life should be different than it is? Would your life be better, if only? Do you push yourself, berate or...

Weaponizing The Racism Charge I have watched our national politics descend into what appears to be a war against reasoned analysis and discussion. There is...

By Denny Freidenrich Whiplash often occurs during a rear-end auto accident. Thankfully I wasn't in an accident. But I think I suffered whiplash three times...

Bus Boy Bob I wasn’t surprised to hear that Laguna Beach will cancel its extended weekend neighborhood trolley service effective Sept. 30. The change affects...

Let’s Get Together and Feel All Right Let’s think about Bob Marley’s message. We’ve got a lot of divisions in our town right now, mostly...

Taste of Lagun Were you among the crowd of smart or lucky folks who attended last week's Taste of Laguna, held at the festival grounds?...

Went to Neighborhood Congregational Church last Sunday to learn about their Second Annual World Peace and Justice Weekend. It begins tonight with a 7...