Columns

Finding The Great Connectedness  I exercise about four times a week, usually by kayaking when it is warm and if not with a 30-minute routine...

Peeking Into the Artist Colony Oh boy, what fun. I read in the Indy about the Open Studios event scheduled for Jan. 3. Artists welcomed...

Yes, folks, it’s time you knew the truth: bananas are radioactive. Enough bananas can exceed the nuclear radiation emanating from nuclear power stations, which...

War declared on freedom of speech Freedom of speech is under attack. In the last few weeks two incidents have seemed to draw a line...

Opportunity Rising The Old Year fled as the New Year stumbled in without the usual year-end “Santa Claus Rally.” Oil prices continued their collapse with...

  Editor’s Note: This week’s digest entries mark the final installment of submissions by writers in film director and local resident Christine Fugate’s writing workshop....

Miller Captures Forgotten Laguna   “Lunch at the Senior Center, Laguna,” Dec. 25, 1997, Douglas Miller. That was the old senior center at Legion Hall, and...

Left in Laguna: A Privilege “I know your type, honey! The woods are full of ‘em like you. Whether you are black, white, skinny or...

The Nuclear Family I was taught the most important thing in the world is the nuclear family. I learned this lesson from my uncle,...

  My mother shows up for holidays like a southern California rainstorm. You know she’s coming, but there’s only so much you can do to...

  “Well hello there. Allow me to introduce myself! I’m Ms. Holly Jolly, the most jolly of all Laguna-nites,” she said as she glided into...

All I want for Christmas is . . . ? Since I still have my two front teeth, all I want is for three...

  My sister, Kathy, went to Laguna Beach High School. Once in a while she would skip school in the afternoon, grab a taco, and...

  By Alice C. Meek "I'm picking up dad at noon today. We'll drive into Laguna immediately, if I can talk him out of stopping for...

Guardian Angels I was fascinated reading the Indy article, “Devout Artist Focuses Her Lens on Heaven.”   Kerry Swank is a gifted photographer who did photographic...