While we are in the giving season, the Messenger suggests adding year-end giving year-round to nonprofits and charities of your choice by making sustainable donations. For instance, select ten of your favorite…
You have probably chosen to live in Topanga because of its beautiful environment filled with wildlife and amazing parklands. In contrast, much of L.A. County has lost these qualities and succumbed to…
Due to the drought our beautiful front lawn went from dark green to ugly brown. When the water restrictions were lifted, a makeover was in order. My wife, Denise, and I decided we didn’t…
On Friday, December 8 at 5 p.m., I received a text from Kevin Taylor, a high school friend of my husband (Paul Pedroza), saying, “My office (Senator Henry Stern) is organizing emergency hay…
One is surprised to learn that the most talked about intimacy lube for women’s pleasure is created by a man. Then again, why not? Mathew Gerson is the son of a…
The Topanga Community Center is in the home stretch of fundraising for a new Senior Classroom Annex. The project has been guided from concept to permits by the Sages’ Building Committee headed…
A weekend “walk” in the park usually meant the opposite. We’d sit or lie down on blankets, pick at picnic foods and fall asleep under the meager British sunshine. If any walking…
There is magic. It happened last weekend in one of Topanga’s historic buildings, an unobtrusive wood and brick structure on a large piece of property that is now the beloved Topanga Community…