In the last week, I experienced two totally American moments.
It takes more than just new school supplies and clothing to get your children ready for a new school year.
One expression I often hear is “I’m spiritual but not religious.”
Hey, I did it folks. I found the new Peninsula Seniors building. Okay, with a little help from my friend after many futile attempts to find the place.
As soon as we saw it, my husband and I liked “the bones” of our house.
Being a child of the ‘80s, I’m of the generation whose grandparents fought in World War II.
When are you actually old?
Have you ever taken a cruise?
For the most part, we parents love summer — no homework, no making lunches, no schedules timed in 15-minute intervals. But on the other hand, summer vacation produces phrases that totally trigger our nerves.
Walteria Lake was a nameless basin of lower-level land where rainwater naturally collected back when A. Richard Walters built a hotel bearing his name in the area in the late 1800s. Walteria was little more than a stagecoach stop between Redondo Beach and Wilmington at the time.
Not too long ago, I took a walk along the San Pedro Harbor Promenade.
With summer upon us, and with a little distance from the daily routine of school activities, I want to explore the key to successful learning.
Well, as they say, that escalated quickly.
In a corner of the history in one of America’s more obscure wars lies one of the few times the Palos Verdes Peninsula has been directly touched by armed conflict.
Q: I took up walking 30 minutes per day on horse trails to improve my blood pressure. I was doing fine until I took a long vacation and walked an hour or two a day on concrete roads. I’ve been having pain during my daily walk ever since. Now my foot’s a bit swollen, and I have the pain even …
I used to have neighbors who had a beautiful pit bull.
If this rule doesn't exist, it should: When you pass a certain age, you are allowed to express all your dissatisfaction with the world as you find it.
Way back in 1961, I had a new house and two little children with a third on the way.
Ever since we gave our 13-year-old daughter an iPhone three years ago, I’ve had the most intense love-hate relationship with it.
I thought if I conquered the next age-progressing rite of passage I wouldn’t need to write my articles in 18-point font.
Last year has been called the most destructive wildfire season in the history of California, where dry, hot, windy conditions have produced fires of varying severity. Locally, the story is no different.
Q: A lot of my friends are becoming vegetarians because they object to animal cruelty, have concerns about the negative effects of livestock on the environment, or for the health benefits. What are the health risks and benefits of adopting a vegetarian diet?
Instead of flying, travel between Europe's major city centers—from London to Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam—via train. It takes you under the English Channel, the so-called Chunnel, in comfort and ease.
Out of nearly 250 flight attendants who flew around the same time as me in the 1980s for Flying Tiger Lines, approximately 170 keep track of each other on a private website. We maintain decades-old friendships sharing old photos, and reminisce about being young, healthy and carefree at a tim…
Family members warned me moving back to my childhood home after my parents passed away would be difficult.
Some people, when they die, leave a huge fingerprint on the world.
Q: I have developed intermittent severe stabbing pains on the right side of my face. The pain is excruciating even though it only lasts for a few seconds to a minute.
Why would anyone living in Los Angeles take the train to San Diego?
Too big for the office, too out of place in the living room and way too babyish for her bedroom, the card table covered with all her Lego structures has stood in the corner of my bedroom for several years now.
My husband and I met in Egypt on Oct. 1, 1968. We were married in Norway four weeks later, but it’s a long story.
I recently found a yellowing, late 1970s, hand-typed list among some old notebooks and newspapers.
I first heard about a little book called “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up” about five years ago when a friend told me about her new strategy for organizing and cleaning out her house.
It’s safe to say not too many people from the Palos Verdes Peninsula get to attend the White House Employee Christmas Party in Washington D.C., nor do they get to experience viewing the most decorated home in America.
Every year an insurance company with whom I have business would send me an ugly calendar. Each of those years, my daughter-in-law gave me a pretty one ... maybe hummingbirds or flowers.
There is a car seat in my living room.
It was time to clean out all the holiday stuff.
Since I’ve never, ever kept a New Year’s resolution, I decided to ask some of my best friends and family to make a few for me.
For as long as I can remember, I was blind to the fruit trees in my parents’ backyard.
I’ve never understood why so many women subject themselves to scalpels and skin peels, toxic injections and sutures, all in the vain attempt to look younger.
Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., the man who designed Old Torrance and parts of Palos Verdes Estates, also published a landmark treatise on California urban planning, “A Major Traffic Street Plan for Los Angeles,” in May 1924.
Yes, my friends, it’s almost New Year’s Eve. Also known as that time of stress for nearly everyone.
Q: I am worried about my blood pressure because it’s been a little high ever since my family arrived for the holidays. Some of my relatives are really annoying, and we’ve all been eating and drinking too much all week. I have forgotten my blood pressure pills a couple times. Is it a big deal…
I was sorting through a stack of long-forgotten childhood books when I came across a copy of “Encyclopedia Brown Saves the Day.” The Encyclopedia Brown series had been one of my favorites as a child but now I looked at the book in horror.
As associate pastor at Rolling Hills United Methodist Church, sometimes I am a preacher of sermons and often I am a listener to sermons.
It was no way to spend a Christmas.
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