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Quarter’s End As we near the end of the third quarter, stocks are up 6% for the quarter and 15% for the first nine months...

Hello Laguna Hi. It’s me. No, you didn’t pick up the wrong paper. It’s the right one. I wrote for those other guys for two...

Up, Spirits? Stocks had a good month in November, the best since March. The rally that begin with the unexpected election results is so far...

By Mia Davidson and Jan Sattler Laguna Beach supports a large number of resident bird species and one of the more distinctive species sighted is...

Higher Altitudes The stock market is flirting with new highs on the S&P 500-stock index. As I wrote two weeks, ago momentum seemed destined to...

Three For The Road Aftershocks continue from the Financial Crisis and the worldwide Great Recession, which bottomed out five years ago. Their impact was the...

Confessions of a Cat Parent   Nine years ago this month my husband Alfredo and I traveled to Denmark and Paris. When we got home we...

When and where generosity really counts   Picture a walk down a bark path, through a meadow to an old barn.  Then we turn into the...

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...

  Dateline Laguna Beach: On Monday, Jan. 13, as the South Laguna Civic Association board went over the agenda of proposed nearby projects, President Bill...

Feeling For The Bottom Stocks finally struck some sparks of light after a wretched quarter. Whether these can relight a fire under the market remains...

Riding Higher All three major stock averages are competing for new headline highs. Both the broad-based S&P 500 and the Dow 30 closed at record...

Two Sheriffs Last Saturday, two men came out to repair my garden fountain. They were on time, friendly, and very knowledgeable. They worked quickly, had...

Electrifying! Don’t You Think?  Thank you, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Thank you, Jerry Brown. Thank you, Kevin De León. Thank you, Gavin Newsom. Most of all, thank...