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Pet Peeves

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Moving Day I got the word on Saturday, which is my second favorite day of the week, right after Sunday. The PGA calls Saturday, moving...

Village Matters

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Be Bold, Breathe Easy Personalized repairs—that’s what you got at Karl Klass Electric downtown on Forest Avenue. I took my toaster there once and when...

The Slant

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The Last First Day of School Summer is slipping away. The shadows are longer and the days are getting annoyingly shorter. Soon there will be...

Musings on the Coast

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Battle of the Beaches  I grew up in Corona del Mar and my family had membership in the Balboa Yacht Club where we sailed catboats....

Pet Peeves

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Team 33.5   Relay Team 33.5 did it. That’s Team 33.5 Miles Across the Sea. They crossed the Catalina Channel in nineteen hours and 44 minutes....

The Kibitzer

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Happy Birthday, Buzzkill That tired and fatuous “Happy Birthday” song is about to get its comeuppance. For years I have cringed in restaurants when staff assemble...

Guest column

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Invasion of the Water Snatchers In the 1956 classic science-fiction film “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” a small town is mysteriously overtaken by aliens that...

Pet Peeves

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Survey Says I read with interest the Indy article, “Survey Takes Laguna Art Temperature.” My first thought was, is this an oral or rectal examine?...

Taking Stock

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The Breezes Of August The stock market made a strong recovery after sagging for almost two weeks, than plunged again on news that China had...

Village Matters

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Yours Forever Rolling hills and beauty in many shades of green. Woods, fields and little hamlets with landmark church steeples…my brothers and I made a...

Guest Column

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Revisiting the Offshore Oil Drilling Fight By Denny Freidenrich Thirty years ago this month, I received the call of a lifetime. I was asked to coordinate public...

Pet Peeves

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Teachers Lounge As a student many years ago, I always wondered what went on in the teachers lounge. It was off limits to students and...

The Kibitzer

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Are We Sharky Yet? Disclaimer: I had a lot of pushback about publishing this column because of the great and largely irrational fear of the...

Shore Scene

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  Snails Find Home in a Tube Deposited by the tides, a common find along Laguna’s eight-mile shore are broken off pieces of light colored irregularly...

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Photosynthesis   Some subjects are off limits. I avoid topics that I know next to nothing about. Indy readers disagree. They say my columns prove that...