Thanksgiving is my kind of holiday. Apart from the “thanks” part, the primary purpose of this celebration is eating. That is the one thing I do quite well.
You hear the phrase “time is money” everywhere, but it’s not entirely true: money can be lost and regained (and then lost again, as a trip to Las Vegas can teach you).
On Thursday night the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Board of Education reviewed the district’s gift giving policy. The issue is how gifts and donations to the district should be placed into one pot and distributed among schools based on some sort of “need” formula that has yet to be de
Q: For the past three weeks I have noticed a car parked on my block and there is someone sleeping in it overnight. During the day, the owner leaves the car parked on the street and returns to it in the evening.
There’s an old expression often used during the holidays, “It’s better to give than receive.” Obviously, Bernie Madoff wasn’t a big believer. His motto might have been, “Better to rip off than get ripped off.
Over the weekend, the Santa Monica Daily Press turned 10 years old, a remarkable achievement given the precarious state of newspapers today and the stubbornly lethargic economy that threatens small businesses like ours.
When someone asked me, “Hey, did you hear that Johnny’s gone?” I thought that he had finally decided to go into a housing program. Johnny was one of the homeless that I talked to every day.
Dear New Shrink, I am in my early 20s and have been seeing a psychotherapist for about five months now. At first, I wasn’t even sure why I was going; I just wanted someone to talk to.
I have been missing from the pages of this paper for a little over a year now, ever since I had my second son, Eli. The last Mommie Brain column I wrote chronicled Eli’s arrival and the scare he gave us all by being a little over five weeks early.
As an African American and an environmentalist, I went along for a long while with the idea that race and class are irrelevant to the cause of environmental protection.
The latest New York Times/CBS News poll had bad news for Congress, whose support is down to single digits. But it had even worse news for the Republic.
I’m doing something differently this year by writing about Thanksgiving the week before because I want to remind people what the day is all about — really.
