Tom Cochrun /Light Breezes

SHOW TIME    There's been an unusual amount of commotion along the Cambria to San Simeon shoreline this year. Photo by Mike Gri...

THE WEEKENDER QUIZ HOW DO YOU SEE IT       Have you heard the story of the beautiful garden visited by two men?         The garden was...

DO YOU SEE THE SKULL? Diversions while you watch your NCAA Brackets implode.      How fertile is your imagination?  Look at the far poi...

REASONS FOR OPTIMISM     Tools, advances and new research are coming rapidly now in the area of brain science.  Discoveries in the last c...

WHO ARE YOU? WE KNOW.     Frequent readers may recall my cautionary concerns about the surrender of information autonomy to convenience...

ON HIGHWAY 1      This was the scene this week on our most recent drive through Big Sur. It was that magic stretch of Highway 1, the Pac...

TALENT WITH TALENT      In the television news business, the anchors, correspondents and reporters are referred to as "Talent."...

WHO'S THE BAD BIRD?       Early evening and the sun is cutting slanted shadows on  the east side of the ridge while the valley b...