In 2050, it is predicted that 70 percent of the world’s population will live in mega-cities. Today, many previously decayed urban neighborhoods are being reclaimed, renovated and re-populated by young Millennials who…
All Things Connected
Early this year, Floating Doctors helped a remote island village off the northern coast of Panama get electricity. I don’t know how Ben and Noah did it, but they and the volunteers…
I am driving to Thousand Oaks on the 101 at dawn. The road is an unclogged artery. Yo Yo Ma is playing “The Eternal Vow.” I slide up the highway thinking how…
San Marcos, California is nestled in the North County region of San Diego, about an hour’s drive south of the El Segundo corporate offices of Mattell, Inc.—manufacturers of the iconic “Miss Perfect”…
I have a special “accelerated-history” window. Floating Doctors has been working with the remote island Gnabe people of Panama for the last five years. Our first encounters with these islanders found them…
As vast as Los Angeles is, Topanga, population <10,000, has retained a small town feel, where neighbors recognize each other’s faces from community markets, restaurants, stores, schools, community fairs, dances, public meetings,…
I was eight years old when we got our first television set. It was 1953. I was a horse loving, cowgirl-tomboy child, trapped in Evanston, Illinois, until, at 18, I could catch…
When Michael Ferro became the largest shareholder and non-executive chairman of Tribune Publishing in 2016, according to his Wikipedia bio, Ferro became determined to usher the historic company into the digital age,…
Net (i.e., the internet) Neutrality is a controversial and confusing topic that is not well understood by most of us. This is a highly-nuanced subject, with a lot at stake, and an…
It is spring in Topanga! All around us, DNA codes are programming the beautiful, living designs we hold so dear to bloom and grow. We bring out our copies of Santa Monica…