Tom Cochrun /Light Breezes

    Take off on a cross country flight     There was a time when I lived a lot of my life at 30 thousand feet. Now it seems an intrus...

shore sculpture at Morro Bay       the pause     A breather and a contemplation. Tucked into our complex lives is the need for...

swallow tale at work in cambria free to be...       Next time you get a chance, slow down long enough to watch a butterfly at wor...

getting back on track      Our democratic republic is so far off track even serious, sober and reasoned people talk about the nation ...

          These recent photos are evidence of what we've been waiting for.    Frequent readers of this space will recall my devout l...

      A casual safe harbor sits back bay in Los Osos and Baywood.   A cove on Morro Bay, tucked in by the "spit." ...

       Eddie Slovik, a hard luck kid from Detroit was in trouble with the law from the time he was 12. He died 12 years later.        In ...