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To Whelk or Not Occasionally one comes upon a particularly large white spiral shell deposited on the beach or in the tidepools. This beautiful shell...

Read the Personals   HOLIDAY SHOPPING DONE for next year. That’s right – Delicious Branahougan fruit cakes are selling 2 for $35 and packed in a beautiful...

The Difficult Path to Delight “Whenever I’m driving through a neighborhood and see a (landscaper) truck with orange cones set out on each end, and...

Here Comes Santa Claus Holiday shopping got off to a mixed start. Traffic was weak at Gap, Old Navy and Chico’s and up at TJX...

Watching for Market Indicators One “indicator” of future stock market performance is the “Super Bowl Indicator.” A New York Times sportswriter created this “indicator” in...

 Stepping Courageously into the Future The Laguna Beach Woman’s Club, located on St. Ann’s Drive, is in a creative mode. They’ve added a free monthly...

Home Sweet Home Laguna Beach took a step forward in reforming its controversial historic preservation list. But the task force forgot to ask first, “Mother may...

Stocks are alternating up and down days, creating a chart pattern that looks like an electrocardiogram. The market’s uptrend remains intact but under some...

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...

 It Takes a Community to Preserve Open Space Laguna’s several hundred acres of remaining open land graces the entire town with marvelous views, wildlife habitat,...

The Myths We Embrace My education skipped Greek mythology. Of the 12 labors of Hercules, I know just one: mucking out the Aegean stables....

Targeted Cloud Seeding in Laguna  By Michael Ray You've all heard of cloud seeding, right? It is a weather modification technique that increases rainfall by introducing seeding...

Freedom Isn’t Free Freedom isn’t free, someone has to pay for it. Because we’re not free to hold Laguna’s traditional Heisler Park Memorial Day...

King’s Mountain Sunday, Oct. 7, is the anniversary of a 1780 Revolutionary War battle you’ve likely never heard of. It’s meaningful because it was crucial...

Christmas Treasures Christmas celebrates the birth of the Christ child though it’s a joyous time for children everywhere. The Beautiful Wife has a tradition of...