Columns

Where There’s Smoke, There’s Ire Councilwoman Toni Iseman opened Agenda Item 22 at the last Council meeting by informing us that Laguna Beach had one...

Bottoms And Tops Is the stock slump over? Maybe. The market made a remarkable upward reversal on Wednesday after disorganized selling took the Dow Jones...

A Glance Over the Shoulder Within one 15-minute period recently I received word of the deaths of my 101-year-old great grandfather and the beloved husband...

The Alibi It’s been 29 years now. That was the last New Year’s Eve that I was awake for. Marriage, kids, and job made me...

Awakening Emotional Intelligence It is a part of our human nature to fear and avoid change, emotional discomfort, visibility, vulnerability and the unknown. We want to...

How To Handle A Correction Stocks continue to stumble further into a “correction,” defined as a decline of more than 10%. These unnerving events occur...

Laguna Beach their Liverpool? I’m not much of a groupie. I haven’t followed the music scene, either locally or further afield. But that changed last...

I should have known better than to take my first trip to Cuba with a bunch of retired guys from Philly. It wasn’t just...

Under Our Skin If residents are mad at Haagen pricing, then I say residents are apoplectic at Oceane Skin Care sales tactics. Residents are all...

Keep Your Head When All About Are Losing Theirs Stocks tumbled into January with their weakest performance to begin a New Year in 15 years....

How Volunteering Might Save My Holiday Cooking I love holiday cooking. More accurately, I love when someone else does this kind of cooking and serves...

Editor’s Note: This edition features submissions from a writers’ workshop led by local resident Christine Fugate. All are fiction, except as noted. Used to be...

Good Bye, 2015; You’re Flat Time is running out for the stock market to put any exciting numbers on the scoreboard. With only one trading...

  California 40 million strong A concrete bubble Cocooned by TV, Twitter, technology In Laguna Beach/ Carefree neighborhoods packed garages, full driveways, storage units lights, stoves, phones Green lawns, clean cars, Fiji,...

Silver Bells It was clear and visibility unlimited, the kind of day that Californians insist upon. Lucas, Gracie and I were making the most of it...