Opinion: Finding Meaning
The Meaning of One Life
Want your life to make a difference for good in the world? Google the question, and you’ll get a plethora...
Opinion: Wisdom Workout
Open and Soften Your Vision
I think at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most...
Opinion: Finding Meaning
A COVID-19 Silver Lining
One of our sons, whose career actually started as a lawyer, invested with a partner in buying a pizza restaurant in...
Opinion: The Autumn of Our Years
It’s so hard to reconcile living in such a beautiful, bountiful place - with so many privileges and delights - with the human misery...
Letter to the Community: Remembering the ’93 Fire
Dear Laguna Beach Community,
Oct. 27, 2023, marks the 30th anniversary of the devastating 1993 wildfire that destroyed more than 400 homes in Laguna Beach....
Opinion: Wisdom Workout
The Gifts of Silence
Time has become a speed freak. It’s Monday, and then I blink, and it’s Friday. This has been going on for...
Opinion: Finding Meaning
“The best is yet to be...”
The Beautiful Wife and I are back in picturesque Midway, Utah, nestled in the ancestral home. It’s autumn. The...
Opinion: Village Matters
A Fair Trial?
Who deserves a fair trial? I was surprised to read an opinion by Jeff Sebo in the Los Angeles Times, Oct. 23 edition...
Opinion: This is where we live – the process
By Hunter Fuentes and Jon Stordahl
We’ve all heard tales about lucky people who accidentally stumble across a buried treasure. In 1991, a man purchased...
Opinion: Finding Meaning
A Child of Laguna
Do you recall the Walt Whitman poem, “There was a child went forth every day”? Whitman recalled the formative experiences of...
Opinion: Green Light
Big Plans for the Little Tidewater Goby
In Laguna Beach, we wrangle over parking, views, local elections and more. On the other hand, having lived...
Opinion: The Best and Worst of Summer ‘23
Well, here we are, coasting through another perfect fall, with summer but a hazy, faded memory. So allow me the privilege to revisit, and...
Opinion: The Best and Worst of Summer ‘23
Well, here we are, coasting through another perfect fall, with summer but a hazy, faded memory. So allow me the privilege to revisit, and...
Opinion: Green Light
C'mon, Laguna! Downey Leads Us on Solar Power!
Eons ago, I grew up in Downey, a bedroom community 40 minutes south of downtown Los Angeles...
Opinion: Finding Meaning
Another Laguna Good Samaritan
Haven’t you wondered about that New Testament story, “The Good Samaritan?”
I get the message that compassion towards people who are different,...