Columns

As Good a Place as Any Every Christmas we trek to be with our families to Arizona, the least favorite of any of the places...

Radio and TV legend Art Linkletter, whose heirs live in Laguna, used to say, "Kids say the darndest things." After hearing what some Donald Trump...

Surreal I live inside my head. A lot. In Laguna terms, my head is a mid-century modern with a great room. I live alone in...

I Resolve, More Or Less Approximately 40% of Americans make New Year's resolutions. That is more than watch the Super Bowl. The University of Scranton...

It Happens   It wasn’t supposed to happen to us, But it happened to Dutch and my uncle Russ,   It happened to “Hevs” and Charlie Plummer, It happened to...

Up The Down Escalator   Every Dec. 31, when the hype of New Year’s sequins and resolutions threaten overload, I escape. I become 5 again, my...

Year Ended I decided to do group therapy. There was me and a roomful of therapists. The first session went like this.   “Ah-huh, Ah-huh, Ah-huh,...

  Timely and Timeless   “Fate carries its own clock,” Pearl Bailey, “The Raw Pearl” (1968)    The first few weeks of the New Year have most of...

It’s that time of year again, when we look back and wonder, “What happened?” On my radio show last week, a guest surprised me...

It’s lonely at the bottom. Several months ago, I noticed the social media banner at the top of my digital column. Here’s what it...

A Gift Worth Waiting For Much of this column may seem more like a horror story than a holiday one, but trust me, I get...

Dean Westgaard was a hero in more ways than one. He was a boatman in the mid-‘50s and once convinced Chad Burton to go out...

Love it All Like loving that perfect person we chose to spend our life with, who it turns out has some qualities we wish we...

Upward Trends Two surprises touched off a surging stock market rally. First, Mr. Trump’s win was the biggest upset since the 1980 Olympics, when the...

  I felt left out of Secret Santa when I read the Indy article, “Newly Restored Painting Reveals Early Laguna.” The grandson of an early...