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The Year Of The Dragon The Chinese New Year approaches, bringing in the Year of the Dragon, said to be a deliverer of good fortune....

Code Words   I was at CdM High School during the 1960s race riots in America.   There were almost nightly scenes of black people on TV...

Comfort Food is Anything But Common   At 6’1” and brandishing tattoos beneath his shirt-sleeves, Chef Ryan Adams’ appearance suggests a ruffian, ex-prison inmate. On closer...

Climate Protection Earns B+ Marks   Because of the difficulty of the subject matter, a B+ in climate protection is respectable.  In this town of...

Mutual Responsibility   "You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” Abraham Lincoln.     Last week a local friend called with a concern about potential energy...

The Quiet Rally Stocks continue a stealth rally, quietly moving to their best levels in five months. The market has recently been untroubled by bad...

Loose in Laguna   The ocean view is not the only advantage of having an office in Laguna.  Our neighborhood of shops, offices and homes is...

The Importance of Doing Nothing   As this new year  comes out of the gate, my personal consulting work is bringing me aspects of life that...

More Money, Honey   Another perfect day in Paradise, but then there is Wall Street.  Oh, no!  Even though Wall Street is 3,000 miles away or...

Seal of Approval Izzy and the other El Morro fourth graders recently made their pilgrimage to the Mission in San Juan Capistrano, a place she...

The Concrete Foreman   My father was a construction contractor and I worked on his jobsites from the time I was 8.   So from my earliest...

Quick Start for 2012 Stocks came out swinging at the opening bell of 2012. For a brief period, the market was not burdened with bad...

Special Delivery Hi Grampa, It’s Cindy. Can you take Mrs. Peterson her dinner tomorrow? I have a school assignment. Oh, take some left overs or A sandwich and some soup...

Let’s Get Weird   "We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours,...

Clearing Clutter for 2012   “Life is like a closet.  You have to clear space – throw stuff out - to make room for change and...