Columns

By Eileen Keighley Editor’s Note: The next two editions will include submissions from a writers’ workshop, led by local resident Christine Fugate. All are fiction,...

By Susan Jacob T’was the night before Tech-mas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring; we have a cat and no mouse; The stockings...

Juiceless, But a Deluge of Other Delights It’s Christmas in Laguna, another reminder that we are as blessed as any humans on earth! I hope...

Esperanza sat in the weak winter sunlight, still as the statue of the Virgin de Guadalupe that protected the mission’s chapel. Though she dare...

Wily Coyotes “A dingo’s got my baby,” is an unforgettable line delivered by Meryl Streep in the 1987 movie “Evil Angels.” Streep learned the hard...

          Coming Home to the Deeper Meaning of Christmas     “Come home for Christmas!” This was the message that advertising executive Jose Sokoloff ingeniously broadcast to guerrilla...

Gifts From the Past Does anyone remember green stamps? Back in the olden days instead of getting points on your credit card for making purchases...

Find Holiday Magic   The holiday card that I found the other day at the Laguna Colony Company on Forest Avenue said: “Christmas Therapy Group.”...

The Best Gift It’s 1957 and a 6-year-old boy sits in the dark in front of a Christmas tree waiting for his family to wake...

 Tree Burnings and Islamaphobia South Coast Plaza’s 96-foot tall Christmas tree went up in a blaze early Monday outside the Westin Hotel in Costa Mesa....

Face Up The other day I was making fun of some young guy behind his back. I’m too old and frail to do it face...

A Slice from the Good and Bad in Paradise   I was born in the summer of my 18th year. I came to Laguna Beach with...

  ‘Tis the Season to Rent Your Home Last Friday’s Hospitality Night was deja-vu all over again - our annual reminder of how great it would...

Holiday Songs In the late 1960s, Simon and Garfunkel released an album, “Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme,” the last song on which was “Silent Night/7...

This Laguna Liberal Agrees with Newt By Denny Freidenrich My political DNA leans left, so when I agree with former Speaker Newt Gingrich, I have to...