Columns

Spring has sprung! By the time you read this it will be April, no foolin’. March is soon to be in the history books. It...

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....

By Annlia Hill The ocean was a way of life for the Alley Kids ‒ on boards and in boats. In the 1930s, they discovered sandsliding...

Editor, A few weeks ago, I wrote a column “Speaker’s Corner,”  entitled  “Will Council Lead?” (Aug. 29) The headline of this letter is “An Open Letter...

We commonly confuse closeness with sameness and view intimacy as the merging of two separate “I’s” into one worldview. Harriet Lerner, “Dance of Intimacy”...

By Annlia Hill Great-grandfather Franklin Reed built a small cottage on Ocean Avenue in 1903, about the time plein air artist Norman St Clair first...

Read the Personals HEY, GOOD-LOOKING—Branahougan’s Hilltop is having an all-day potluck meal to celebrate Thanksgiving. So bring your lumpy mashed taters, thin runny gravy and onion...

Finally, The Uptrend Is Back At last, the market averages pushed through their recent ceilings on increased volume, confirming a resumed uptrend. For several weeks,...

Masters of Time On a recent Saturday we walked up the street for the memorial service for our neighbor Bill Ives. Friends and family gathered...

The Autumn by My Discontent Spring is in the air. I can feel it.  Things are looking up.  But I cannot get with it. ...

  For those of us who like hiking, south Laguna offers a labyrinth of scruffy, scenic trails.  Thanks to the County of Orange, the South...

By Susan McNeal Velasquez Christmas 2022 is now in the rear-view mirror, and this coming weekend heralds the start of our new year of 2023....

"Many of you don't belong to the Catholic Church, others are not believers," he said in his native Spanish. "From my heart I impart...

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

The Fed Keeps The Course The Federal Reserve continues to keep a gentle but steady grip on the tiller. It lowered its growth forecast for...