Columns

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...

New ‘Old’ Friends? The Beautiful Wife abhors violence.  But she also loves a TV show full of murder and mayhem.  It’s called “Blue Bloods” and...

Read the Personals TWIN SISTERS – 37 years old.  We sing and dance, we bake deliciousness from the homeland.  We are work live-in maids, for...

Flushed with Cash I was on the royal throne when I read the Indy’s “Auditor Finds Shortcomings in Agency’s Books.” An obscure group, South Orange...

Quest for Mellon “Coke’s tasty, but all that sugar just gets in your belly and starts radiating heat like a blacksmith’s forge. It just cools...

A Reality Check When was the last time you had a heart to heart talk with Life? Have you included Life in your current game...

Confessions of a Newspaper Junkie   The Pulitzer Prizes were awarded this week for excellence in journalism. Or what’s left of it, as more and more...

Greetings from Earnings Season Both the Dow Jones Industrials and the S&P 500 broke their streak of nine straight positive quarters three weeks ago as the...

We Would Not Act Like Irvine      Since “Asians in Irvine score political victory,” appeared in The Los Angeles Times on April 1, I thought it...

Echoes of Design Review Report from a design review hearing in the near future. There are a few changes in the process. Applicants are now...