Columns

Reader’s Digester   Readers always ask me, “Where do you get your story ideas?” I used to say the bathtub, where I’m most relaxed. But I...

Time to Repurpose a Landmark In the summer of 2009 my brothers and I, spouses and kids went back to our Wisconsin hometown for our...

Laguna Executive Order Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. I have a friend since childhood, who I have tried to emulate. He’s smart. He...

Nothing Personal   Are you familiar with the term Machiavellianism? According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it is defined as “the employment of cunning and duplicity...

The Big Snake This happened about two months ago. I was doing yoga in my master bedroom overlooking Diver’s Cove. I could hear the waves.  ...

Powering Ahead Stocks continue the positive momentum that they acquired in November with the major stock indexes closing at record levels for five straight sessions....

Putin's O.C. Pal March is just around the corner. As one who taught history for many years, I often think of the Ides of March,...

Pleasure and Peril There’s a new video that’s gone viral about a fifth grade teacher from North Carolina named Barry White, Jr. (no relation...

The Unsinkable Pageant I’m not an optimistic person. Where optimists see rainbows and bunnies, I see tornados and flying bunny pellets. So when I read...

Patience Pays Dividends The new Administration is finishing its third week of its “shakedown cruise,” a nautical term for the “sea trials” of a new...

Holding Hands This is my 301st Village Matters column. I started these in 2004 at the request of former Indy editor Stu Saffer when Arnold...

Edict Usurps Constitutional Values I want to express my extreme shock and absolute revulsion at President Trump’s recent executive order on immigration.  I am an...

A Whale of a Comeback   How do I love thee Laguna Beach? Let me count the ways. Actually, there are too many to name, so...

Bird Rock It was a historic moment for the Laguna Ocean Foundation and me this past Jan. 12, when President Obama announced that Bird and...

The Personal is Political  Carol Hanish's essay written in 1970 questioned whether women's consciousness-raising groups were a useful part of the political women's movement. In the...