Taking Stock
Keeping Perspective
As predicted last week, stocks easily summoned enough buyers to push the Dow Average through 16,000 and the S&P past 1800. This prompted...
The Slant: Be a Good Holiday Host
The holidays are here. This time of year I often get asked questions about how to make one’s home look good during the holidays....
Speaker’s Corner: Machievelli and the Village Entrance
Five hundred years ago, Italian author and of modern political science Niccolò Machievelli wrote the seminal classic, "The Prince," promoting “the ends justify the...
‘Little Women’ Hits All the Right Notes
By Robin Pierson, Special to the Independent
There is nothing little about the actors playing in the musical adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s Civil War...
Unlocking Children’s Desire to Excel
By Kate Rogers, Special to the Independent
The most recent Coffee Break provided parents a simple and powerful tool for transforming their children’s learning experience...
Shore Scene: Watching the Western Willet
By Mia Davidson and Jan Sattler
Now that the summer crowds have dispersed, the Western Willet (Tringa semipalmata) has arrived on the beaches of Laguna....
Pet Peeves: Watch Your Step
Laguna Art Museum has embarked on an exciting new project that redefines art inspired by nature. I believe this new approach will strike a...
Wisdom Workout: Love is a Verb
The chance that I would go to see a movie about a guy who is addicted to pornography is slim to none. However, the...
Speaker’s Corner: Kismet to Catalina
Dolphins leap in the distance behind us as the mainland recedes. There is no wind today. We have been motoring the 36-foot trimaran in...
Speaker’s Corner: Dancing the Tango With City Council
On Nov. 12, Delia Horowitz will be the facilitator for the city’s workshop regarding the village entrance. (“Tacking the Intractable Entrance,” Nov. 1 edition.)...
Village Matters: Landscape of Legend
We could trace the development of the town through the eyes of Laguna’s plein air painters, Kleitsch adding color, Hinkle subduing the landscape with...
Taking Stock
From Shutdown To Surge
Only a few weeks ago, political dysfunction shoved the nation to the edge of financial default. The government shutdown was damaging...
Unlocking Children’s Desire to Excel
By Kate Rogers, Special to the Independent
The most recent Coffee Break provided parents a simple and powerful tool for transforming their children’s learning experience...
Musings on the Coast: Arrogance
This is a true story about arrogance. Specifically, mine.
It begins with kayaking. I go almost every day, venturing from one of the coves in...
Pet Peeves: Catch ‘Fallen Angels’
Laguna Playhouse is finishing up a production of Noel Coward’s “Fallen Angels.” The cast did a superb job with this classic farce originally written...