Taking Stock
Buy The Dips, Sell The Bounces
After what seemed like six months but was really six weeks, the stock market attempted to break its slide....
Taking Stock
The Worriers Are Wrong:
Stocks Are A Buy
The stock market endured what seems like a Biblical forty days of rain, depressing investor spirits. These dipped...
Green Light
Where Common Good Reigns
Sign a petition for the Open Space Initiative; do it for the common good. Let me explain.
Mother Nature has given bounteously...
Wisdom Workout
The Power of Imagination
Susan McNeal Velasquez
The theme of the Pageant of the Masters 2011, “Only Make-Believe,” is a tribute to artistic imagination unleashed....
Eavesdrops
Recovery
I’m glad to see you up,
I heard you were sick.
No, Grampa, I was very sick.
Oh, I thought you had the flu.
No. I had influenza,
And...
Musings on the Coast
My Son the Football Player
My son Harrison is a football player and I have failed. He is only 16 and I never meant...
Taking Stock
House Prices Down, Stock Dividends Up
Stocks ended May on an upbeat, then sold off the first chance they got in June. These Midsummer Eve...
Eavesdrops
Memorial Day
Grampa will we go to the cemetery this year?
Only if you want to. You’re too old to drag anyplace.
It would be better to...
Double Digit Returns From Blue Chip Stocks
The stock market hit some slick spots, skidded but remained on the road. From now to the fall is a traditionally less dynamic period...
Guest column
Why I’m Supporting the Open Space Initiative
Is it consistent for a fiscal conservative to support raising taxes in order to purchase open space? On...
Get Out of the House
Do, Don’t Pretend
About a year ago I discovered a guilty pleasure – the supermarket Fresh and Easy. The closest F & E is in...
Laguna Observed
Reclaiming a Pageant Ritual
Every year I'm taken by surprise that it's that time of year again. This refers to any time of year commonly...
Hot Dish
French 75
The rumor-mill hummed with news that an “out-of-town chef” was teaming up with a long standing Laguna Beach restaurant to re-vamp and freshen...
Musings on the Coast
The Return Of The Dolphins
I live in north Laguna and have kayaked from there for some 20 years. I cast off...
Village Matters
Cuervo
Trusting, a crow perched on our patio steps. Just standing there, looking up. He’d spread his too-short wings and jump-fly from one step to...