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There’s a lot of hoarders in my family. Fortunately, I’m not one. Well, except for photos.
You know that life around you has become too perpetually noisy when you hear a sound that you can’t quite place but it seems familiar.
The pandemic has changed all our lives since it took hold in earnest in March 2020.
I’ve written before about some of the curious behaviors of dogs, but ours has taken up an unwelcome new one: rolling in her own poop.
There have long been allegations that there are plenty of parking structure and other off-street spaces in downtown La Jolla if the local denizens weren’t too cheap to pay for them.
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It has not escaped my attention that all of my favorite TV shows are sponsored by antidepressants.
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It continues to amaze me that we can land the Perseverance rover on Mars but San Diego, two-plus months after the vaccine rollout, cannot sort out the horrific daily traffic jam of people trying to get to Petco Park for their first or second doses of COVID vaccine.
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Anyone who has been reading my column for a while knows that I’m a sucker for those internet articles about how to make yourself look 20 pounds thinner (Photoshop?)
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There are times when you just have to lie.
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I was going to write about the COVID-19 vaccine rollout last week, but my first draft was 25,000 words and they only allow me 800.
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It is not often that I write an ode to city of San Diego maintenance services.
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The La Jolla Light presents this continuing series of online activities to undertake on your computer or tablet during your quarantine quandary. • Congregation Beth Israel presents its next Men’s Club forum, “A Conversation with Deputy Chief of Mission Eitan Weiss,” at 7 p.m.
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Thursday, May 13 • La Jolla Town Council meets, 5:30 p.m. online. (858) 454–1444. lajollatowncouncil.org/home Friday, May 14 • Kiwanis Club of La Jolla meets, 12:30 p.m. online.
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La Jolla nurse Quinn Quackenbush is driven to provide better results for patients, and for that she landed two of UC San Diego Health’s Nurse of the Year awards.
It’s time for another round of Auntie Inga’s Geriatric Curmudgeon Hour, Language Edition.
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One of my goals for 2021 is to not repeat history.
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Sometimes I think I’ve fallen into the twilight zone when I realize I live in a state where it’s illegal to get a haircut.
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Dear American and Swedish friends, It is hard to believe that it is time for our annual holiday letter again.
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My children never got to know my parents, so I’m always trying to think of ways to pass down their legacy.
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As we all know, sometimes the only thing you can control in life is your attitude.
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Like lots of families, it was Thanksgiving for two at our house this year. We could have eaten out.
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Given the national despair over election ugliness and the ever-worsening pandemic, I’ve tried to steer clear of both topics recently.
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A few months ago, I wrote two columns regaling my readers with stories about how my older son, Rory, managed to terrorize me repeatedly by re-enacting scenes from horror movies he’d been allowed to watch at his father’s.
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What is it with men, anyway? No, don’t even try to answer that.
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If it’s fall in La Jolla, there are spider webs everywhere.
