Tom Cochrun /Light Breezes

  You know things have changed when:                 Snoop Dog and Peyton Manning are team mates covering the Olympics               A Frenc...

                                   "The voice of sanity is getting hoarse,"          Irish poet Seamus Haney said as he observed ...

  Feathered Buddha by Lana Cochrun         How would you explain our national mood to the "greatest generation," those who endured...

            (California Central Coast) Here's a view from the western edge of this old democratic republic as it rounds 245 years.      ...

         Sequoiadendron Giganteum are the royalty worthy of a bow.     The Giant Sequoia groves, found only on the western slope of the Sier...