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Editor’s Note: This edition features submissions from a writers’ workshop led by local resident Christine Fugate. All are fiction, except as noted. Used to be...

Good Bye, 2015; You’re Flat Time is running out for the stock market to put any exciting numbers on the scoreboard. With only one trading...

  California 40 million strong A concrete bubble Cocooned by TV, Twitter, technology In Laguna Beach/ Carefree neighborhoods packed garages, full driveways, storage units lights, stoves, phones Green lawns, clean cars, Fiji,...

Silver Bells It was clear and visibility unlimited, the kind of day that Californians insist upon. Lucas, Gracie and I were making the most of it...

We’re back from our version of National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. I didn’t get a bonus or swimming pool. Relatives are the same. Did you...

Making Sense of 2015 I make my living as a real estate developer and have many developer friends, who in OC are overwhelmingly Republican. Let...

    Freya waited in line, pulling her tattered grey cashmere poncho closer to her. The sun had almost completely set and the night brought with...

By Eileen Keighley Editor’s Note: The next two editions will include submissions from a writers’ workshop, led by local resident Christine Fugate. All are fiction,...

By Susan Jacob T’was the night before Tech-mas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring; we have a cat and no mouse; The stockings...

Juiceless, But a Deluge of Other Delights It’s Christmas in Laguna, another reminder that we are as blessed as any humans on earth! I hope...

Esperanza sat in the weak winter sunlight, still as the statue of the Virgin de Guadalupe that protected the mission’s chapel. Though she dare...

Wily Coyotes “A dingo’s got my baby,” is an unforgettable line delivered by Meryl Streep in the 1987 movie “Evil Angels.” Streep learned the hard...

          Coming Home to the Deeper Meaning of Christmas     “Come home for Christmas!” This was the message that advertising executive Jose Sokoloff ingeniously broadcast to guerrilla...

Gifts From the Past Does anyone remember green stamps? Back in the olden days instead of getting points on your credit card for making purchases...

Find Holiday Magic   The holiday card that I found the other day at the Laguna Colony Company on Forest Avenue said: “Christmas Therapy Group.”...