Columns

Hope Springs Eternal It’s hard to talk about much else these days but the delicious, life-affirming, all-consuming rains that have enveloped us. It washes away...

Carter’s Little Liberal Pills “Fat dogs have more fleas”—the new California motto? With 12 percent of the nation’s population, California has the fifth largest economy in...

Monsoon Memories It’s the morning after the madness of July 4 and all is quiet here on the beach at 8:30 a.m. The sun’s out...

Tomorrow Is Another Day Finally, the stock market closed down more than 1% for the first in 110 trading days. The streak began on October...

Quarter’s End Approaching the midpoint for 2018, The Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 2%; the S&P 500 Index is up 1% and the NASDAQ...

Dog Days of Laguna  By Mark D. Crantz   I love Laguna because Laguna loves dogs. Dogs are special.  Spelled backward its God.  Makes you wonder about...

Farewell ‘til September One of the many veteran Wall Street sayings is Sell in May and go away, come again after St. Leger’s Day. St....

By Rebecca Washington-Lindsey On June 11, I attended a popular Laguna Beach Tradition Blessing of the Artists Ceremony. The event celebrated the opening of the...

By Roger Butow South Coast Water District has refused to consider Clean Water Now’s alternative plan: Use existing and potential recycled water sources, plus pump...

A Town for the Ageless Just when I was so disillusioned—thinking that our younger and older generations were never going to connect, I was inspired....

Sustainability in Food, Clothing, and Shelter  On a cool February evening at the Laguna Art Museum, an audience of a hundred or so attendees were...

Pivotal Thinking The word pivot means to change directions; to deliberately choose directions of vital importance. When you decide to make life changes, you take on...

Her Own Two Feet Two I got a job. Really? Yeah, Dancing. Dancing?   It’s good money. Is it? It’s nights. It would be.   Could I use your car to go to work? Just until...

A Laguna Love Story Does no one want to tell his or her love story?  In my last column—thinking ahead for our upcoming Valentine’s fest—I...

Finding love later in life Dear Susi Q: I'm lonely. I want to find a partner, a soulmate. But I'm 75. Should I just...