Tom Cochrun /Light Breezes

    Doesn't it seem fitting that Ode To Joy has become a global anthem in this time of virus?     Any rendition heals, but there is ...

winners        The hometown kids prevail and Jon Batiste wails. Good nights in the US.        High tides, driving rain, b...

      Lana's knee replacement surgery meant I spent a few days at the hospital, a rich tableau for an old reporter and watcher of peop...

MY LAZY BUDDY     Exploits of Hemingway our polydactyl have been documented here in previous posts. But here is something you may not kn...

GLORIOUS SPRING    Spring blooms spray the hills rolling to the Pacific behind Cayucos California.     Echium bathes in spring sun. ...

LEGACY    Lone chimneys dot California wilderness and mountain areas. Sentries, guarding the past of what was once a place of life and ...

UNLIKELY CHALLENGE     Lana, a decades long veteran of jigsaw puzzle work says this ditty from Liberty Puzzles is the toughest she h...

HAIR TRIGGER NASTINESS      Maybe it's all the caffeine, or 24 hours of cable news yackers. We are wired and wireless and trending an...