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By David Vanderveen “We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us, and we...

By Mia Davidson and Jan Sattler The California sea hare (Aplysia californica) derives its name from the four protrusions on either side of its head...

  We’re not even in the top 14 happiest places nationwide, according to a University of Vermont study that correlated cities across the country with...

Laguna Beach is a gastronomical delight.  But then, gastronomical is a word that doesn’t go down right.  You could choke on any one of...

 Many of us are incarcerated in a mental prison that is comprised of bricks of self-condemnation fashioned from our perceived mistakes, regrets, guilts and...

People tell me things.  Perfect strangers unburden themselves to me, and nowhere is this more evident than when I’m sitting my photographer husband, Gary’s,...

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...

Fashionable Food on Forest   I have a friend in Sonoma County who practices the religion of abundance. Surrounded by grape vines and fig trees, she...

Summer's Harvest Wall Street traders make up for the lack of holidays in August by taking vacations, usually after the middle of the month. Trading...

By Ellen Girardeau Kempler   The battle begins every morning at the hummingbird feeder outside my bedroom window.  Even before I’m fully awake, I’m aware of...

By Mark D. Crantz   Laguna Beach is a special place because it is made up.  Yes, you read this correctly.  Laguna Beach is not real...

“The Road goes ever on and on down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, and I must...

New Highs, Old Principles Stocks powered to new highs on both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500. Only a week ago, I...

I dreaded the prospect of getting married, walking down that aisle. What if that man waiting for me at the altar was the wrong...

By Greg Vail I listened to a recent KX 93.5 interview of Councilmember Elizabeth Pearson regarding the village entrance project. The interview struck me less...