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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...

A Funny Thing Happened… A funny thing happened on the way to the forum. I found parking. It was a dream California style. There were...

Moonlight Becomes You The moon has been my companion the past few nights. It dapples the covers on my bed so that it casts both...

Volatility Is Back After stock market averages set record highs in mid-August, stocks sagged, interrupting the market’s recently re-established uptrend. The buoyant markets of the...

Slapped Down Do you remember being 16? Just a few weeks into having a driver license, dreaming about what your dream car could be? I...

Black Footed Beach Thief With its red bill tipped in black and its black legs and webbed feet, the Heerman’s gull (Larus heermanni) is one...

Lucky Numbers or Not Many people believe in numbers. Some folks are afraid of the number 13. Others dread the number four. Then there are...

Bad News And Good News Stocks began the third quarter with a Fourth of July bang and ended it with a whimper. The averages crested...

Keepers of the Flame Fall is just barely beginning but the campaign season is fully underway. Laguna Beach’s city council race promises to be not...

Our Masks I went to Harvard. It was summer school between my sophomore and junior years at Occidental College.   At the time, almost anyone could...

  Watching a taped segment, so glued was I to it I did not realize that it was close to 12:30 a.m. I was watching...

Seagull Gall I’m here live at Madison Square and Garden standing on an olive branch with Jonathan Livingston Seagull. “Jonathan, I couldn’t help but notice...

The Courage To Be Open The health of our relationships hinges on our skill in the art of openness. Openness is a powerful force that...

Try To Remember The Kind Of September . . . As stocks exited the summer of 2014, the S&P 500 Index marked the year by...

I Yam What I Yam I yam what I yam. I’m not Popeye the Sailorman. I’m not strong to the finish because I won’t eat...