“This Land is Our Land” This is my second favorite [of your “Living Well” columns], after “What’s In a Name?” I like the immediacy of it; I could feel what you were…
Opinion
It’s only natural that in times of social upheaval and political turmoil, we are tempted to look back, rather than forward, as we desperately seek to flee the stress and anxiety of…
The ambulance pulled into the driveway. “Is she dead?” I tremulously asked as they wheeled my 96-year-old beautiful, brilliant, sweet, unconscious mom toward the house. “No,” the hospice people said and dropped…
On the Saturday after the summer solstice, on the Wright land in Malibu, two men, elders in the community, stand at the East gate of the Medicine Wheel. Their voices lead us…
Our sweet boutique Topanga Farmer’s Market is suffering. The community turnout has dropped significantly with a 30-40 percent decrease in sales in the last year. Naturally, vendors are bailing. If we do not…
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” (Nelson Mandela May 8, 1995) There has been a lot in the news about…
I have such fond childhood memories of libraries. Having a library card was a ticket to worlds far beyond my young reach. Local librarians of that era grew to know kids who…
I went to college – for a day. Well, kind of. We made that long stretch of a drive through the Central Valley of California, on the way to Santa Cruz to…
Technology is saving endangered rhinos and elephants in Africa. I am talking about a significant reduction of poaching through new programs like Connected Conservation. BACKGROUND Rhino horn is in demand in Asia,…
I don’t say this lightly, but it’s not often you experience what is literally a transformative, life-changing experience. Yet that is what I found on my recent journey through the Deep South…