If you want to find one, all-encompassing picture of Huntington Beach, Orange County’s fourth-largest city, you’ll have to dig further than just the image of a surfboard stuck in the sand, with […]
A tale of two (or more) cities
All That I Know I Learned From …
Editor’s note: Jim’s brain is taking the week off. Here’s a classic “Retorts” from October 2019. At my deceptively youthful-apprearing age, I have collected a brain-full of witticisms, wisdom, old wives tales, […]
The Great Bunny Run of ’21
You may have read in The Tribune or elsewhere that Target made a profit of $15 billion last year despite the COVID-crippled economy. I think Marilyn and I, by ourselves, contributed […]
And maybe I’ll keep the mask, too
I went into a convenience store today to buy a bottle of soda. I caught a glimpse of myself in some glass: cap pulled down low (it was chilly), dark sunglasses (chilly […]
It’s time to cancel “cancel culture”
“He who is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone.” – John 8:7 Despite the admonition of Jesus 2,000 years ago, many folks are grabbing up stones and […]
The real meaning of January 6
“Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.” — William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming.” It certainly looked that way on Jan. 6. A mob of […]
Is this pizza worth your life?
We went to our favorite Italian restaurant, an old haunt located in Huntington Beach. We ordered to go online and motored down there, so proud of ourselves for patronizing a fine eatery […]
2020: A Year Worth Forgetting
2020 is almost over and we’re happy to see it go. We’ve been battered by the pandemic, protests and partisan politics. We’ve lost a lot of the things that brought us pleasure: […]
From rusty to a renaissance
In my last column – way back two weeks ago – I mused on the significance of landmarks in a community. I asked readers to make their own suggestions about buildings or […]
What’s your landmark decision?
Did you ever forget just how you drove home? I mean, your brain is so much on automatic at the end of a trying day, your subconscious just picks out the landmarks […]
