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What To Do Now? Stock market “corrections” remind me of coming down with the flu. I feel awful, nothing will help and it seems it...

Irish Eyes Are Smiling The cause of my happy eyes isn't because of St Patrick's Day this year. A few weeks ago, I discovered the...

The Best Cat Ever My friend Jane who lives in Pasadena has a cat named Lola. When they picked her out at the shelter, Lola...

Apple Adds a ‘Friend’ Apple stock got a price lift from an unexpected source. Carl Icahn, the famous corporate raider, announced he had taken a...

Skating By I’ve morphed into that old guy my friends and I used to make fun of when we were kids. I tell today’s kids...

A Reason for Hope “Hindsight is 2020” was one of the thousands of protest signs I saw last Saturday at the Los Angeles Women’s Rally...

Run In I was marveling over the new look of the digital Indy when I ran into the story about someone driving onto the porch...

The stock market hit some slick spots, skidded but remained on the road. From now to the fall is a traditionally less dynamic period...

Thanksgiving After the tumult over the past two weeks, the condensed Thanksgiving trading week provides a useful pause. The financial media predicted that a victory...

Dale the Whale I learned a lot of stuff from the Indy’s “High Seas Adventure Awakens Ocean Awareness.” I did not know that the ocean...

The Dynamics of Loss Many of us who live here are currently mourning the loss of Stu Saffer who was the original creator of the...

Some Gave All The mayor is usually asked to give a speech at the Monument Point Memorial Day ceremony in Heisler Park.  In 1994 I...

It’s About Time   Time has become a speed freak. In fact, I suspect it has been taking professional driving lessons and thinks my weekdays are...

Curmudgeons, Complainers Clog Laguna One of the advantages of living in a small town is that residents have a voice in participatory government. On occasion...