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Read the Personals   GOLDEN GIRL – My name is Lexie.  I am friendly, loving, obedient, faithful.  Long walks, riding in your car, playing catch. I...

Hurricane Season Touches Down You can’t ask for a nicer Memorial Day than today. Notoriously cloudy, today is quite the wonderful exception thanks to yesterday’s...

Let There Be Lights When it comes to the many holidays celebrated in this country, my default disposition is often a combination of iconoclast and...

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,...

Love Wants to Dance  Love is a context, not a behavior. Marilyn Ferguson – The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980)  The fall season officially arrived last weekend. It...

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...

An Apple a Day Keeps the Down Market Away Apple (AAPL-$445) crushed Wall Street analysts’ earnings estimates. It did this the old fashioned way, not...

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...

I went screaming and kicking. My wife made me go on vacation with her. My 43-year record of being a homebody was shattered. Only...

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....

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”...

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...

Bingo Recently, the Suzi Q Senior Center hosted a forum dedicated to seniors. Ten candidates for City Council debated senior housing, assisted living centers, public...

Roll Call I had a dream the other night… The City Council looked up and noticed people missing. Poof, appointees had disappeared into thin air. “Where...