Columns

Read the Personals HANDSOME WHITE-HAIRED GENT dining alone on patio of Las Brisas Saturday night.  I am a student filmmaker and you are perfect for...

The Intuitive Artist It is really hard to describe art, and even harder to describe the art of Laguna’s Jorg Dubin. Some of his portraiture images...

Bully Beef "Southerly gales, squalls, lee rail under water, wet bunks, hard tack, bully beef, wish you were here, instead of me.” This was writer...

A Modest Proposal We live in a zip code where it is easy for marketing experts to mistake most of us for the rich people...

Restrain myself? The meaning of our life—born out of our better choices—is publicly revealed at our passing.  Did you read LIz Goldner’s obituaryfor Laguna’s Mark...

Art in lieu A funny thing happened to me while reading Indy’s “Public Art May Embellish Entrance.” It put me into an induced coma. My family says...

Relationship Literacy Every person we meet has a story to tell. Imagine that life is like a library filled with individual books to be experienced...

Legends of Laguna   With the sad passing of Mark Chamberlain, we have lost another indelible link to Laguna’s cultural legacy in the 1960’s as a...

Questions Undermine Undergrounding Proposal Caltrans is currently in design and planning to widen Laguna Canyon Road within its state-owned right-of-way. Laguna Beach’s proposal to spend...

What Would Granny Say?       First, she’d say, “Stop calling them granny flats! They’re ADUs!”       Accessory Dwelling Units are those spaces created inside our houses,...

Early Ailment Can Indicate Genetic Disorder On July 12, 2014, days before my 39thbirthday, my life would change forever. I was a successful and well-accomplished...

Growth Plus Value U.S. companies are reporting their best earnings growth in more than 20 years. Around 80% of the companies that have so far...

Times Gone By During the last class period on the last day before summer vacation, the clock in Ms. Thesauri’s English class went backwards. It...

Sleepy Students   There has been a kerfuffle recently over possibly moving the start of the school year to an earlier date in August. As a...

Choices That Free Us “Finding Meaning,” last week, referenced Robert Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken.” It’s America’s most popular poem.  The column was about...