Topanga Canyon Reverie
During the afternoon mail call I received John’s letter. He told me Lisa wasn’t seeing anyone anymore and maybe I’d like to write to her. He knew I liked Lisa and she agreed to give me her address, which he...
Climate Change… Is It Happening to Me or for Me?
Climate is on everyone’s mind. On Thanksgiving Day, it was 85 degrees in Topanga and due to the Public Safety Power Shutoff, Topanga was sadly the land of raw turkeys. With fire season lasting nearly year-round now, and the...
Suzanne Guldimann Interviewed on Greater LA on KCRW
TNT Editor, Suzanne Guldimann, is going to be on KCRW’s Greater LA with Mike Schlitt on Monday at 1 and 6:30 pm, for a segment on Malibu, May Rindge, and Pacific Coast Highway. It will be online at kcrw.com once it’s...
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
Holiday cooks across the nation froze in disbelief and dismay as the electrical grid audibly groaned to a halt.It was 9:30 pm, the night before Thanksgiving. That’s me trying to compose a killer opener for a new novel. No,...
Lights Out: SCE Pulls the Plug
Southern California Edison, borrowing a page from the Grinch Who Stole Christmas, flipped the switch and canceled Thanksgiving for 57,000 SCE customers in five counties—Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino. The Santa Monica Mountains and Malibu bore...
A Bad Wrap
The holiday season is here and amidst the warmth and togetherness, celebration and cheer, is lots of unnecessary, non-recyclable trash. Each year we generate an additional seven million pounds of waste between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, and it...
Lights Out
An extended SCE “public safety power shutoff,” PSPS, made Thanksgiving more of an endurance test than a feast for tens of thousands of people, including most residents of the Santa Monica Mountains. The power went off on Wednesday evening...
Rising Waters: King Tides Provide a Preview of Sea Level Rise
King tides, some of the highest tides of the year, arrive this weekend. They offer a fascinating but chilling look at a future with increasingly higher sea levels. King tides occur when the gravitational pull of the Earth, moon,...
Three Takes on the 19th Century
Janice P. Nimura is the author of Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back Again (2015). In her latest book, The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women – and Women...
Fundraiser for RCDSMM
On Sunday, December 12, from 12pm–4pm, Catherine Tirr Watercolors will appear at an annual sale and fundraiser for the Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains (RCD). 10% of proceeds will go directly to RCD. More about RCD...
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Dr. Dolittle in Topanga Canyon