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Anticipating her arrival, I walked out my front door and peered over the front deck. She made a powerful statement driving up in a...

I rarely read reviews of new books before I pen my own, but I had to check out what the great Jennifer Egan had...

Obviously there are more than three qualities that make up being a human, but in the world of mindfulness practices (like meditation) there are...

How did you sleep last night? If you were to tell me you slept like a baby, that would mean you tossed, turned, peed...

By Loreen Berlin, Special to the Independent Twenty years ago this month, a savage fire devoured 14,000 acres of Laguna Canyon wilderness and ravaged multiple...

By Patricia Garza Pinto Last week I spent all day caring for my beloved, sick grandchild, Bella. The season which brings runny noses; sore, tender...

This week’s post is a follow up from last week's blog entry, titled The Four Pillars of Health. Today, I share the second pillar...

50 Issues of Laguna Beach Magazine Steve Zepezauer: The Voice Inside My Head I remember when desktop publishing was invented in the mid 80s. Within a...

By Paula Olson Off the coast of Laguna Beach, I jumped off our boat, floated for a minute as my dive buddy, Brian and I...

By Randy Kraft   I resist making these “best of” lists as a rule, because they’re just one person’s opinion, and this person favors certain types...

Do you love looking at yourself in the mirror ... naked? Be honest! Do you find your stomach tells you that you can't eat...

Many wonderful writers publishing these first few months – novels, short stories, essay, true crime and memoir – and many candidates for book groups. Here’s a sampling. ...

The “inner unit-outer unit”… do you find these four words trivial? As a Corrective Exercise Specialist, it is my experience the inner unit is...

By Randy Kraft First things first: this novel is a masterpiece, second only to Wiggins’ previous masterpiece, Evidence of Things Unseen. If you missed that...

The third pillar of health is movement or exercise. Movement that keeps the curves in the right places and trims the places that need...