Opinion: It’s personal. Remembering JFK
By Denny Freidenrich
Nov. 22 was the 60th anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination in Dallas. I was only 15 at the time, but I remember...
Holiday Digest: Thanksgiving Past
By Patricia Truman
An old-fashioned phone didn’t offer privacy, but area teens could figure out which beach they would meet at while talking to one...
Holiday Digest: At the Table
By Cecile Sarruf
Autumn leaves dance off sycamore trees and scuttle along a festive Forest Avenue promenade.
Enthused locals stroll the last of summer into...
Holiday Digest: Gratitude and Light in Laguna
By Susan Heiligman
It’s an early sunset during the Thanksgiving holiday, and those marvelous limited hours of daylight are to be relished. We would often...
Holiday Digest: Paper Pilgrims
By Heather Hagen
A couple of vintage post-Depression 1930s folding tissue paper and cartoon pilgrims, one man, one woman, decorates a side table below the...
Holiday Digest: Thanksgiving Story
By Amy Schwarzstein-Capron
The number three is my favorite number. It’s my magic number in numerology, and I am the youngest of three, and I...
Opinion: Veterans Day is Every Day in District 5 – We’re Here to Help
By Katrina Foley, Orange County Supervisor
Supporting the 105,000 veterans here in Orange County remains a top priority for my office.
When I joined the board...
Opinion: Happiness as a Hypothesis
It’s Not Healthy to be Happy All the Time
By Melissa Harris
Twenty years ago, I was a single mom of a five-year-old. My days were...
Opinion: Wisdom Workout
Come Home to Yourself
Are you familiar with the term Machiavellianism? The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as “the employment of cunning and duplicity in...
Opinion: Green Light
Laguna Moves on Climate Action Plan
On Nov. 14, the front page of my Los Angeles Times ran a stark photo of a burned forest...
Opinion: Two Legs
As I was walking into Vons’s supermarket in north Laguna, a woman named Christine Kelton stopped me and asked my name. When I told...
Opinion: The Post Office and the Street Gang
By Annlia Hill
Walter E. Parke followed Baird Coffin as Laguna Postmaster in 1953. Under his leadership, the post office moved from Broadway to 570...
Opinion: Finding Meaning
An Impulsive Side Trip
It started with a roof leak in an easy-to-ignore overhanging edge. Years passed, a tribute to my procrastination skill, and then...
Opinion: Dear Susi Q asks the question
What’s the best advice you could give an advice columnist?
Lynette Brasfield answers: Take a hike!
A few weeks ago, I hiked 2,300 feet up to Tahquitz...
Opinion: Random Guy Noticing Stuff
By Gary Stewart
Imagine being on a 61-foot-long vessel in the midst of the seemingly endless Pacific Ocean with no engine, no compass, no sextant,...