Columns

Relationship Literacy Every person we meet has a story to tell. Imagine that life is like a library filled with individual books to be experienced...

Legends of Laguna   With the sad passing of Mark Chamberlain, we have lost another indelible link to Laguna’s cultural legacy in the 1960’s as a...

Questions Undermine Undergrounding Proposal Caltrans is currently in design and planning to widen Laguna Canyon Road within its state-owned right-of-way. Laguna Beach’s proposal to spend...

What Would Granny Say?       First, she’d say, “Stop calling them granny flats! They’re ADUs!”       Accessory Dwelling Units are those spaces created inside our houses,...

Early Ailment Can Indicate Genetic Disorder On July 12, 2014, days before my 39thbirthday, my life would change forever. I was a successful and well-accomplished...

Growth Plus Value U.S. companies are reporting their best earnings growth in more than 20 years. Around 80% of the companies that have so far...

Times Gone By During the last class period on the last day before summer vacation, the clock in Ms. Thesauri’s English class went backwards. It...

Sleepy Students   There has been a kerfuffle recently over possibly moving the start of the school year to an earlier date in August. As a...

Choices That Free Us “Finding Meaning,” last week, referenced Robert Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken.” It’s America’s most popular poem.  The column was about...

The Carnivore at My Window Lots of people dislike birds, especially if they’ve lived in cities alongside pigeons. Not me. I was 9 years old when...

Art Talks Art imitates life.  But what do the rest of us do not named Art?  So I asked Art, if I could come over...

Read the Personals I AM MATURE, RESPONSIBLE and efficient – except the times when I’m not.  I will babysit your cat, dog, bird or fish. ...

Growing, Growing, Growing The end of April shows stocks down for three of the four months of 2018. Investors remain grumpy, almost ignoring the strongest...

Standing Up for the Trail Ever wonder how people traveled along the coast before Coast Highway was built in 1926?  There was the old Coast...

Slip Sliding Away The notion that our small town civic leaders would need the services of consultants and professional pollsters, costing hundreds of thousands of...