Columns

Risk, Gain, Loss, All Four-Letter Words Four-letter words have a clouded reputation. “Good authors, too, who once knew better words/Now only use four-letter words” (Cole...

Some Gave All The mayor is usually asked to give a speech at the Monument Point Memorial Day ceremony in Heisler Park.  In 1994 I...

Medical Records Bill Moves Ahead Again  Imagine getting diagnosed for a disease like cancer and being told by your doctor that your medical records were...

What is the price tag for school safety in Laguna? It's 4 a.m. and I should be dreaming about drinks with little umbrellas instead of...

Being Spiritual Over a century ago, in Los Angeles, a little-known Black evangelist named William J. Seymour started a revival on Azusa Street. The setting was...

Sideways Motions Halfway through the second quarter, the market has gone nowhere so far this year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is where it started...

Carbnb My wife has a favorite story she tells…  “Hey Debbie, there’s a homeless guy living in your car,” her friend announced while bringing in...

Read the Personals EXPIRED FROZEN PIZZAS for sale.  Okay, I’ve got a dozen frozen pizzas dated April 30, 2018; nobody in my family will eat...

Desert Pot Springs I recently attended a cannabis trade show in Desert Hot Springs to see how the recreational industry is faring (for a friend,...

Finding Putin In Hell’s Kitchen Countless allegations: insidious torture and murder; ethnic cleansing; supporting brutal dictators; mysterious poisonings. Last month, an attack with chemical weapons...

All My Troubles Seem So Far Away All systems are “go” in the financial markets for now. Stocks, bonds, the dollar and oil prices are...

Country Roads Take Me Home The idea that Laguna Canyon Road is a rural country road is about as dead as John Denver. It may...

An Old Debate Resurfaces Both locally, with Orange County cities arguing over the sanctuary cities issue, and nationally, with troops on the border and calls...

Happy Mother’s Day We’ve examined the process of finding meaning in past columns.  But we haven’t acknowledged a hard reality: there’s a price.  You must...

Laguna Idol For those Laguna residents, who missed Laguna Beach’s first test of a new emergency messaging system last Friday, May 4, here’s the reenactment. ...