Tag: Laughing Matters

Mom's Tiny Part in History In the many years since she passed, my mother, Thelma Neworth, has gotten wiser. How? ...

Train to Zakopané is Right On Track Veteran film director Henry Jaglom, a Santa Monica resident for twenty-five years, is ...

Pizza on Main Street, What a “Novel” Idea I'm not exactly going out on a limb when I say Santa ...

Blame This One on the Cosmos? During the past eleven years, occasionally readers email asking about my “writing process.” Frankly, ...

The Kids Give Us Hope, The Adults Give Us B.S. In one of her fiery speeches, Parkland massacre survivor Emma ...

Profiles In Cowardice As I write this it's pouring outside. As I live in a high rise I often joke, ...

Among the most alarming aspects of the Trump presidency is how we've become inured to his vulgarity. We're told it's ...

Sadly, for Shores residents, the much-beloved Bill and Flo Kaufman have recently passed: Bill in 2016 at age 94 and ...

Black History Gets the Shortest Month of the Year Black History Month was originally not a month but rather a ...

The late Ron Accosta was born in Santa Monica in 1934 and was raised on Main Street where his father ...