Columns

Besieged Tuesday night the council considered whether to tear down or restore the Digester building, and whether to fund projects that include cutting down the...

Social Media & Hometown Connections   My last column, “The Changing Face of a Hometown,” brought full circle the power of social media to connect. Friend sent...

Got Lyme?   “Got Lyme?” reads the staff shirts at a popular Martha’s Vineyard Mexican restaurant, a reference to not only the island’s best margaritas but...

“My Cat Wants to Eat Me for Thanksgiving Dinner” “Research shows that house cats have personality characteristics most similar to lions and would eat their...

The school’s retirement funds are broke again. Sounds like a broken record. Oops, let me update that. Sounds like a broken MP-3 player. Oops,...

Hitting Your Prime The experts say we hit our physical prime by age 25. Then it’s all downhill, though doing our best to minimize the...

It’s Time to Ease Up Many suffer from a malady that is widespread but seldom mentioned. It is particularly prevalent among successful, accomplished professionals, both...

The Orange County Board of Supervisors ended 2013 with a principled demonstration of government restraint.  As reported in the Dec. 18 edition, at the...

By Samuel Goldstein As a resident of Laguna Beach since 1978 I find it a major insult that you and other writers at the Indy...

In our endless drumbeat of perfect summer days here in Laguna, it’s easy to be insulated from the perils of being human on the...

As Good a Place as Any Every Christmas we trek to be with our families to Arizona, the least favorite of any of the places...

What’s The Rush? Have you ever made a major purchase in a hurry and gotten a good deal? That is a hard thing to do....

Fair Skies and Tailwinds for Bedrocker Don Crowe was a Marine fighter pilot, call sign Bedrocker—a ladies’ man. He flew some 300 sorties over Vietnam...

Be Bold, Breathe Easy Personalized repairs—that’s what you got at Karl Klass Electric downtown on Forest Avenue. I took my toaster there once and when...

  For those of us who like hiking, south Laguna offers a labyrinth of scruffy, scenic trails.  Thanks to the County of Orange, the South...