Tag: Santa Claus

Wisdom Workout: Tools to Fly Above the Chaos

Wisdom Workout: Tools to Fly Above the Chaos

| January 31, 2013 | 0 Comments

 How is it possible to keep our equilibrium when our world seems to be moving so fast? A typical day is filled with more interactions with inanimate objects than living, breathing people. We wade through e-mails, retrieve voice mail, and send and receive cryptic text messages without any face-to-face contact. This constant bombardment falls on [...]

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The Thankful Turtle

The Thankful Turtle

| December 26, 2012 | 1 Comment

From one moment to the next, my 5-year-old became obsessed with turtles. She decided that what our family needed was not a dishwasher that scrubbed dishes or a garden with live plants. No, we needed a turtle. When she couldn’t spur her parents into action, she did what any smart kid does:  She picked up [...]

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Locals Greet the Season

Locals Greet the Season

| December 12, 2012 | 0 Comments

  Photos by Mary Hurlbut   Sampling a Hospitality Night Tradition Go into the kitchen and see a behind the scenes video of tamale making sold on Hospitality Night in the Presbyterian Church. Here

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A Fitting Substitute

A Fitting Substitute

| December 24, 2010 | 0 Comments

By Ruth Yunker Christmas Eve has come to Laguna Beach yet once again.  I’m remembering a Christmas Eve in 1983. I’d just moved with my children back here from Baltimore. It was my daughter’s first California Christmas. She was three and a half and she was desolate. This new place was hot and dusty. The [...]

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Laguna Observed

Laguna Observed

| December 10, 2010 | 0 Comments

We’ll Always Love Santa Last Friday, Hospitality Night came to Laguna yet once again.  I am always amazed at how fast Christmas comes round again. And I wouldn’t have it any other way! So there we were, every citizen living in Laguna, especially those with children under 10, out and about, down on Forest, scarfing [...]

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