Columns

By Coach Everett Gee I am a retired physician with a wife and five kids, so one can only imagine how crazy and chaotic our...

Opposites attract, right? It certainly explains why my wife and I get along. She exudes charm, optimism, intelligence, empathy and goodwill to all creatures...

Three top notch urban design teams and an also ran pitched their visions and credentials to secure the role in shaping Laguna Beach’s development...

“Can we go driving today,” my older son asks with the mellifluous cadence of a scene from “Driving Miss Daisy.” Did he just wink...

You might say Lagunan Kaira Rouda has spent a lifetime reinventing lives - her own as well as others. She moved around during childhood,...

Don't run as fast as you; don't forget I was young too. It may seem a little bold, like I'm trying to scold. Next time you...

  Most people bring a casserole or a salad to a potluck, but Loraine Hollingsworth of Laguna Canyon brought cactus pads (nopales) and a ukulele....

By Karen K. Redding It’s that time of year again when I begin to say “good bye” to the MSW interns whom I have supervised...

I am a daughter. I am a mother. I am a grandmother. Soon I will be a great-grandmother. My four daughters are currently immersed...

  Early Memories of the Homeless in Laguna I remember as a kid driving back home to Laguna after a day at the Fun Zone up...

When I was a kid things were different. I wore knickers. Today, kids wear low riders that begin where my knickers left off. I’ve...

The school’s retirement funds are broke again. Sounds like a broken record. Oops, let me update that. Sounds like a broken MP-3 player. Oops,...

  Earth Day is an international celebration begun in 1970 and championed by former Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson. It grew out of the environmental movement...

By OC Sheriff Sandra Hutchens Orange County, meet the new face of homelessness: a single mother in her 20s with two young children. Of the estimated...

By Michele McCormick Fear was palpable; the room charged on April 22, in Laguna’s City Council chambers. Following Friendship Shelter Director Dawn Price’s presentation on...