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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...

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...

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...

It’s so hard to reconcile living in such a beautiful, bountiful place - with so many privileges and delights - with the human misery...

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....

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...

“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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Well, here we are, coasting through another perfect fall, with summer but a hazy, faded memory. So allow me the privilege to revisit, and...

Well, here we are, coasting through another perfect fall, with summer but a hazy, faded memory. So allow me the privilege to revisit, and...

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...

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,...