Though my whole life didn’t run, film-like, before me in those seconds, I was aware that if I couldn’t catch myself, my kids could be orphans. It was happening in micro-time. Flip-flopping,…
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Landscape painter Laura Way Mathiesen brought an indomitable spirit, a formidable mind and boundless curiosity to Topanga in the 1920s. A woman with red hair and “dancing brown eyes,” Laura Way Mathiesen…
After a wonderful, almost thirty years with my wife, Paula—kids, loving, living, then pain and tragedy, she died January 4, 1984, still a young woman, ravaged by breast cancer at forty that…
Mark Twain described the Hawaiian Islands as the “prettiest archipelago ever to lay anchor in the South Pacific.” I agree but, sadly, so do millions of other travelers. Still, you can find…
Two little books, The State of Water, and God Wrestler, have a lot to say and are gifts that keep giving for years. The State of Water: Understanding California’s Most Precious Resource,…
The earliest account of Christmas in the Santa Monica Mountains appears to be one published by Frederick Hastings Rindge in his 1895 book, Happy Days in Southern California. Rindge describes his ranch…
Recent hateful and threatening graffiti was found on a Matilda banner, the TECS school sign, and the pedestrian walk buttons, located at the intersection of School Road and Topanga Canyon Blvd. Law…
In the second feature in our special three-part holiday hiking series, we look for the ‘Road Less Traveled’ in Malibu Creek State Park. If the scenery in Malibu Creek State Park seems…
After 25 years in Topanga, The Nature of Wildworks, a beloved wild animal sanctuary, may be forced to move, the result of a citation issued by the County of Los Angeles Department…
Thirteen-year Topanga resident Rita Street is a television producer and creator of children’s TV series and films whose credits include, Space Chickens in Space (Disney EMEA 2018), and 100% Wolf—Legend of the…