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When it comes to supporting grief and loss at work, we need a culture shift. Here's where we can start.

The pendulum of fashion is always swinging, ever changing. Consider music. My parents danced to Big Band music. The Beautiful Wife and I swung to rock and roll. The grandchildren tell of heavy metal moshing.

March is Women‘s History Month. We rounded up some intriguing books by and about women to deepen our understanding of life in the Islands.

Last week’s Indy announced Laguna Beach Community Clinic’s “Live Well” project, a series of monthly YouTube videos on living better. It’s an inspired idea; the first video features Cary Redfearn, owner of Lumberyard Restaurant and Slice Pizza, in his home kitchen.

The UGA Aquarium on Skidaway Island near Savannah is offering a three-part Finding Meaning in the Marsh series that encourages participants to view Georgia’s coastal...

Trebbe Johnson, author, will be reading from and discussing her most recent book, Fierce Consciousness, on Thursday, March 16 6:30 - 8 PM at the North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier. There will be books available for purchase and book signing at the end of the program which is FREE and open to the public. When grief and anxiety beat us down, the struggle to cope can feel like it’s crushing us even more. To meet big challenges we need to develop fierce consciousness. In her new book Trebbe Jo...

Categories collide in religion books geared toward personal well-being.

Much to the disappointment of early developers, the railroad never came to Laguna. When the ATSF railway extended from Santa Ana to San Diego in the 1880s, there was hope it might come down Aliso Canyon, where a resort hotel was contemplated. When Heisler and associates developed north Laguna in the early 1900s, they hoped the electric railway connecting Long Beach to Los Angeles might extend this far, and the first plans for Cliff Drive called it “Electric Way.” This brings us to a little-k...

Back in the distant days of my youth, I lived for a time in the ancient Spanish Colonial city of Granada, Nicaragua. Granada, one of the oldest cities in the Americas, has since become a Central American destination, like Antigua, Guatemala.

The Super Bowl will celebrate excellence in the hard, win-lose world of football. One team will celebrate, while the other will go home as losers. Valentine’s Day, barely two days later, is the exact opposite. It’s not a spectator sport. Everyone can play. You get to make your own rules, and all can be winners. There we have the essence of life: two paths, and you get to choose which one to take.