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A Moveable Feast   “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of...

Driving Miss Ditzy I had a thought after reading Indy’s “Uber, a New Perk for Seniors.” Then I lost that thought. So I reread Indy’s...

Read the Personals   CHICKEN WHISPERER NEEDED IMMEDIATELY.  Help!  My chickens have stopped laying eggs.  I don’t know what to do! I have a farm, but...

The Waiting Game The stock market sometimes behaves like a teenager learning to drive, switching between hitting the brakes and the gas pedal. A historic...

Getting Out From Behind the Wheel By Andy Hedden   A funny thing happened last summer on my way back from the market. My Honda of 19...

For Whom the Bell Tolls A year or so ago the Beautiful Wife and I were guests of Laguna’s Chabad Jewish Center for a Passover...

Read the Personals MY BIG FAT OVAL TRAMPOLINE for sale.  My kids nagged me to buy it for years.  Nobody uses it anymore.  $300 OBO....

School Sounds My home is close enough to Thurston Middle School that the chimes calling students to class are often audible through the glass windows....

By Paul Freeman What a great site for affordable housing. Naturally, it would help if there were a willing seller. Or a landlord offering a...

Pet Peeves: Lights Out  Laguna.  Another perfect day in paradise, but then there’s the Good Neighbor Lighting Ordinance. Oh, no! I haven’t been here a...

The Waiting Game J.P. Morgan, when asked what the stock market would do, gave a very accurate prediction, “It will fluctuate.” Despite endless showers of...

Newcomer Lurks Amid the Kelp The warmer than usual ocean water we have been experiencing in Laguna is forcing marine life observers to get out...

Do we have control issues?   I never smoked a cigarette and I never dyed my hair.  No one could ever persuade me to smoke.  I...

Pilgrim’s Progress Blocked at the Gate         Death. Mortality. Spring-like thoughts they are not. Spring is about new life, beginnings not endings. Why then such gloomy...

Seventh-Inning Stretch Stocks continue their upward trend with the S&P 500 Index ahead seven percent so far in 2017. As good bull markets should, the...