Columns

Fall Back From when my kids were little until now when their kids are little, I’ve told them all that my favorite holiday is changing...

Three More Years of This? By Billy Fried We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the...

What Happens… There was some confusion at the Museum Hotel planning meeting. I for one thought it was a tryout for American Idol. I sang...

Fickle Friends Last week's column discussed the notion that hotels can be Laguna’s friends. At least in the sense that they help the city pay...

Remembering Howard G. Heisler What person most shaped early Laguna? You could make a good argument for Howard G. Heisler. Next Wednesday marks the sesquicentennial...

Scared Silly When I was a teenager living in New York, my friend Nancy and I used to take the bus to the movies on...

My Sister Roxie My sister Roxie and I stared into each other’s eyes. I had leaned in and was only about 20 inches from her....

Kids at Halloween When our children were young, we kept a cardboard box for each one. The boxes were a place to save the stuff...

Hotels Are Our Friends The Museum Hotel’s plans received their obligatory initial thumping at a recent Planning Commission airing of age old grievances and tropes....

This Little Piggy I like to run my piggies through cool, green grass. Feels good. So, my feet and the rest of me were relieved...

Keep an Open Mind Art by its nature is subjective. In 1874, the Salon de Paris, the arbiter of good taste, culture and fine art,...

Striving for Perfection “La Bayadere” includes one of the “most iconic and breathtaking scenes in classical ballet.” Thirty-two dancers in identical filmy white costumes enter...

Reader’s Digester The City Council went 3-2 on the sewer digester. This confused residents only familiar with Number 1 or Number 2. “I’ve never heard...

Husbands Not Listening In my untiring search for meaning, I dropped in on a women’s Bible study group a while back. Being unusually gracious women,...

High Tides The city’s upcoming rethink of Main Beach Park is an opportunity to address the predicted effects of climate warming and sea level rise...