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Stellar Santa Barbara Sunset
I took this photo last night at Haskell’s Beach, next to the Bacara Resort in Goleta. Enjoy – and season’s greetings from the South Coast!
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“I went to your blog but you hadn’t posted in forever!”
Hello, readers. (If there are any of you still out there!) I recently learned that occasionally folks will come by here, checking to see if I have posted anything, and seeing yet again that I have not....
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A letter to my niece
Hi RLE, You are one week old today, and Donald Trump has been President for 12 days so far. I am so glad you are too little to understand what this means. But to be honest, even those of us who claim...
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Running with dogs
Yesterday my family and I were talking about dogs. You could safely call us “dog people.” We all have dogs, and have since I was 13 and my brother was 9, when we adopted our first dog, the amazing...
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Is this the year empathy ends?
I remember the moment in 2002 when I was first labeled an empath. Except the woman didn’t use that word. She said something else. “You’re a classic people pleaser,” she said, somewhat jabbingly. Was...
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We can’t forget
Last week I interviewed a real estate executive from Philadelphia, who is working to expand the city’s Holocaust memorial. His grandfather was a survivor of the Sobibór extermination camp, where his...
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Barney Brantingham retires
In this week’s Independent, Nick Welsh covers the retirement of everybody’s favorite Santa Barbara columnist, Barney Brantingham. When I started at the SBNP as an intern, people used to ask me all the...
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Doris C. Mitchell
Doris Christiansen Mitchell of Solvang passed away on Dec. 30, 2017 at Atterdag Village after a struggle with memory loss. She was 86. Doris and Renton Mitchell Born a first generation American citizen...
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Big News, Big Move
I’m sitting here on the floor of the living room in the Goleta condo where I’ve spent the better part of the last 20 years of my life. It’s taken me a while to get here, but now that most of the...
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