Columns

The War on Rooftops What is it about roof decks that has our town spun out? We hear all the time how they are ruining...

Simple Truths  How is it possible to keep our equilibrium when negative news abounds with messages of turmoil and chaos? Our days are filled with more...

Paper, Please Those of us lined up at 7 a.m., eagerly waiting to vote at our local precinct last November, were told that the voting...

Year of the Grim Reaper 2017 was not a good year for me.   My sister Kathy, after years of illness, passed. Two months before that,...

Holy Smokes A flood of memories came back to me while reading the Indy’s police blotter. There were lots of traffic stops. Yep, done that....

Read the Personals   LET’S GO – Mardi Gras in N’awlins interest you?  Seniors sign-up for trip of a lifetime.  We have charter flight, bus service,...

How Long Can Coast Inn Coast? My brother-in-law lives in Kansas. We usually don’t have a lot in common. It’s like he’s a Klingon and...

Moderating an Overreach The day after the Coast Inn hearing last week at the City Council here was this surprise email from one of the...

Sandwich Boards It was a day of highs and lows. The high was in reading the Indy’s “Merchants Receive a Late Holiday Gift.” Early indication...

Read the Personals ANTI-STRAW PROTEST group forming.  Don’t let the wait staff or bartender put that plastic straw in your drink!  Straws pollute the atmosphere...

A Reason for Hope “Hindsight is 2020” was one of the thousands of protest signs I saw last Saturday at the Los Angeles Women’s Rally...

Park Potential in Overlooked Spot I had a buddy that used to come to the beach a lot.  Every time he did he brought a...

Help Protect Your Family’s Health During wildland fires -- including recent record-breaking events -- billowing columns of smoke spread harmful levels of air pollution across...

I Resolve to Be Less Skeptical My column is called “Heart Talk” because I make every effort to speak honestly, and hopefully, humorously, from my...

Passing Through “Testing. Testing. Testing. Lower Park Avenue is opened again. The Plaza is gone. Calling all library patrons. This bullhorn announcement is for you....