Tom Cochrun /Light Breezes

      Facebook has big problems. It is an existential crisis and it has spin off tentacles that reach to the very core of the US cultur...

   In a striking way, Dr. Stephen Hawking may have been the first of the new breed of human being. He charted new horizons and boundaries ...

     Sanctuary is a voluble topic in California, taken seriously and now it's a fighting word.       The trump administration is su...

     After being away from this spot for a while, I return by asking you for a moment of personal reflection-privilege as they call it in...

Peace-William Strutt 1896   In the public domain Family Print brought from England      I've been thinking about this...

      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...

            There was a time in the 60's when California was the ultimate in cool. There was the music, beach party movies, Disne...