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Can you lose weight while you sleep? Can you grow younger while you slumber? This may sound like a dream (excuse the pun) and just too good to be true but think again.

Summer As it Should Be Howdy, weather fans, hope you have enjoyed the first third of summer 2011. This time around there’s been plenty to...

By Dr. Mathew Cohen and Dr. Roxanne Kruger, Laguna Beach Veterinary Medical Center  Rattlesnakes are most active from April to October and sedentary during the...

What I Learned On My Summer Vacation As lucky readers may remember, I took off all three months of summer. It was to be with...

Emanual By Mark D. Crantz I envisioned my later years to be one of coasting. Ah, you know, retirement, a period of time when you aren’t...

Highlights of 2009 By Dennis McTighe     Hottest Days: 93° - Aug. 28, Nov. 3 Coldest Nights: 34° - Jan. 8, Dec. 21 Strongest Wind: 47 m.p.h. from the...

Here We Go Again By Mark D. Crantz City Council delays Promenade Project. Here we go again using that dreaded word. Delay. Let’s say it again,...

Being a parent is one of life great rewards. I am reminded as my boys are getting older of the all great snapshots in...

Summer Pageantry I’ll admit it here. I’m a pageant mom. Not the “Toddlers and Tiaras” kind, thankfully, but a Pageant of the Masters pageant mom. ...

Blue Moon      For maybe six months, I had been dating the woman who was to become the love of my life. It was New Year's...

Mother Knows Best By Randy Kraft   I grew up in New York and spent most of my Saturday afternoons at the Metropolitan Museum or at elegant...

Defined by Its Trees  “I’m back in the saddle again” –Gene Autry   I believe it was the scent of the Eucalyptus that imprinted one of my earliest...

A Tipi in Town “We built a tipi once,” I’m babbling on like an idiot to my neighbor, who just built a real tipi in...

Tend and Befriend Are you a person who values commitment or are you an involvement person? If commitment is your strong suit, you score high...

Surrounding The Art I'm a lucky woman.  I have artists in my life who are also my friends. The kind of friends to whom I...