Letter: A Plant-Based New Year’s Resolution
Dear Editor,
With the glow of Christmas barely behind us, we look forward to the new year and the customary New Year's resolutions: reduce social...
Letter: In Response to John Pietig’s Guest Column
Did I just read John Pietig’s guest column correctly…we spent $18,000 for a team of arborists to verify that four 50- to 80-foot-tall eucalyptus...
Letter: Let’s Lighten Up in 2019
There is a lot of bad juju in the world these days. It’s really unfortunate. Ugly wars are going on, people are fleeing their...
Wisdom Workout
A Sanity Assessment
Happy New Year 2019! Many of us have given up on the tradition of New Year's resolutions because of the all-too-common experience...
Designer to Celebrate Grand Opening Jan. 17
The Laguna Beach Chamber of Commerce invites the community to the grand opening and ribbon cutting celebration for Julie Laughton Design Build on Thursday,...
Heart Talk
Taste Buds in a Monastery
“How much do you weigh and how tall are you?” asked the good doctor at the Hoag Clinic on Ocean...
Letter: In Response to Michael Ray’s “The Attack on Young Families”
Perhaps some of what Michael Ray says is uncomfortably true, but he fails to state the underlying cause of the reason young California families...
Letter: The Best Surf Movie Ever Made
My wife and I were at the 2018 Pipeline Masters contest two weeks ago on our vacation to Oahu and Kona. Perfect prelude to...
The Kibitzer
Sex Offenders to Sell Ice Cream in Laguna
Calling all grifters, scammers, minstrels, buskers, barkers, carnies, conjurers, shylocks, scalpers, rapscallions and confidence men. Its open...
Guest Column
Tree Removal, Replanting Done for Public Safety
The City takes great pride in maintaining its urban forest and appreciates the benefits of trees (there are...
Does the Wet Suit You
Activated Charcoal
Did you have a Merry Christmas with Santa bringing you everything you wanted? Santa was pretty busy here at Wet Suit World Headquarters....
Finding Meaning
Divine Resolutions
The best argument for a divine origin of us humans? New Year’s resolutions. Plain and simple. It defies mortal reckoning, the way we...
Musings on the Coast
The Attack on Young Families
Youngish families are leaving California. The stats are depressing. People aged 26 to 44, in prime family-forming age, no longer...
Does the Wet Suit You
Le Plage Laguna
Bonjour, my name is Pierre Le Poodle. Perchance we have met before. I live in Laguna with Brion, my person. Today I...
Finding Meaning
Christmas Kindness
Are you searching for that true meaning of Christmas? It’s elusive, easily lost in the hustle and bustle. The true spirit can...