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These past four weeks have been a whirlwind. My youngest daughter came back from a seven-month volunteer assignment in Indonesia and just returned to New Zealand via a week in Hawaii where her new Facebook picture let me in on her newest skydiving adventure. There were many comments about her bravery and one that said: “Don’t tell mom!”

Carbnb My wife has a favorite story she tells…  “Hey Debbie, there’s a homeless guy living in your car,” her friend announced while bringing in...

The Hot Blond Returns  Oh hell, I thought. Here she comes again, but I did a double take. She didn’t look hot. She looked bedraggled...

Husbands Not Listening In my untiring search for meaning, I dropped in on a women’s Bible study group a while back. Being unusually gracious women,...

Community or Venue Making life all it can be for ourselves and our neighbors—that should be our personal mission, and our shared mission with our...

Justice That Heals Have you caught any of the “Real Talk” events at Laguna’s Susi Q Center? Real Talk is a series of 15-minute...

Ho Hum, Oh Dumb I hate people that flip to the last page of a book and read it’s ending. It’s cheating.   Authors work hard...

I went to the City Council meeting this past Tuesday to speak on the Parking and Transportation Demand Management Report. If you think that's...

I invite you to life... Today, we are looking for a lost part of you that is holding back from fully participating in your life....

  Imagine that every problem you encounter comes to you as a special delivery package from the Problem Express Railroad. This train is filled to...

Wildfire Protection An article from the California Chaparral Institute caught my eye the other day. It reads: “The traditional approach to wildfire management has it...

Tune In May And Stay To Play In recent months, it has not been easy to make money in stocks. Actually, it never is although...

Reclaiming Our Water Equilibrium So how’s your water conservation going?  Ours is going great.  We have a new gray water system.  This is how it...

“Did you hear that?” I asked my girls as they ate dinosaur chicken nuggets and juice boxes for dinner. Their little faces dropped. “What was...

Us and Them, We and You: The Heart of the Problem By Jean Hastings Ardell Given that we columnists write to be read, it seems fair...