Opinion: Two Legs
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...
Opinion: The Post Office and the Street Gang
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...
Opinion: Finding Meaning
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...
Opinion: Dear Susi Q asks the question
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...
Opinion: Random Guy Noticing Stuff
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,...
Opinion: Village Matters
Let (_?__) Do It!
We all have regrets in life, but I have a lingering one related to my service on the city council in...
Opinion: Green Light
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...
Opinion: The Significance of The Walk in The Canyon
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...
Opinion: Finding Meaning
The Meaning of One Life
Want your life to make a difference for good in the world? Google the question, and you’ll get a plethora...
Opinion: Wisdom Workout
Open and Soften Your Vision
I think at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most...
Opinion: Finding Meaning
A COVID-19 Silver Lining
One of our sons, whose career actually started as a lawyer, invested with a partner in buying a pizza restaurant in...
Opinion: The Autumn of Our Years
It’s so hard to reconcile living in such a beautiful, bountiful place - with so many privileges and delights - with the human misery...
Letter to the Community: Remembering the ’93 Fire
Dear Laguna Beach Community,
Oct. 27, 2023, marks the 30th anniversary of the devastating 1993 wildfire that destroyed more than 400 homes in Laguna Beach....
Opinion: Wisdom Workout
The Gifts of Silence
Time has become a speed freak. It’s Monday, and then I blink, and it’s Friday. This has been going on for...
Opinion: Finding Meaning
“The best is yet to be...”
The Beautiful Wife and I are back in picturesque Midway, Utah, nestled in the ancestral home. It’s autumn. The...