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By Melissa Harris If this were the first day of the college semester and you had registered for my Positive Psychology class, I would ask...

Ancestral Ties Do you remember Pan Am, the airline that brought us the golden age of international travel? Back in the day, Pan Am’s lovely...

Laguna Environmental Groups Come Together By Gary Stewart On Monday, Sept. 18, approximately 65 people from multiple Laguna environmental groups came together for a joint meeting...

Love Wants to Dance  Love is a context, not a behavior. Marilyn Ferguson – The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980)  The fall season officially arrived last weekend. It...

Ancestral Ties Do you remember Pan Am, the airline that brought us the golden age of international travel? Back in the day, Pan Am’s lovely...

571 Graceland Dr.  By Hunter Fuentes and Jon Stordahl You don’t always find your dream house; sometimes, it finds you. Shelley Katke raised five children in...

I invite you to life... Today, we are looking for a lost part of you that is holding back from fully participating in your life....

The George Weiss Waste Award Councilmember George Weiss just cost Laguna Beach $500,000, and Village Laguna is celebrating.  Why? I posit that Village Laguna disliked our...

Every politician has a mentor, a sounding board, a guiding presence. Nelson Mandela had Walter Sisulu, Winston Churchill had Bourke Cockran, and John F....

By Melissa Harris If this were the first day of the college semester and you had registered for my Positive Psychology class, I would ask...

Laguna’s French Connection is Hot, Très Chaude!  The late August temperature in the coastal city of Menton, Laguna’s French sister city, is 91 degrees Fahrenheit....

An Inconvenient Truth  I have a childhood memory of my father reading Uncle Remus's stories from the old South. They were didactic fables, meaning they...

Today, we are looking for a lost part of you that is holding back from fully participating in your life. This part is hidden...

The ocean and the beach were constants in the lives of the Alley Kids and introduced them to new people, even those from Hollywood.  One...

Swiss Days in Midway “Are you going to clean up those horse droppings?” You have to be on your toes when the Beautiful Wife asks...