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Getting Away with ARSON 
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Halloween History 
Suzanne Guldimann, October 17, 2025 0  
For many years, the Malibu Feed Bin heralded the arrival of Halloween with a display of pumpkins for sale. This year, the corner of Topanga Canyon Boulevard and Pacific Coast Highway hosts only a utilitarian assortment of trailers used...
Spanish Style: Hidden History in Plain Sight 
Suzanne Guldimann, October 3, 2025 1  
It’s everywhere: historic hilltop mansions from the 1920s and 30s with red-tile roofs and wrought iron fixtures and entire housing tracts from the eighties and nineties that echo those elements in mass production. Real Estate offers are replete with...
Migrating Insects 
Suzanne Guldimann, September 19, 2025 0  
Fly, white butterflies, out to sea, Frail pale wings for the winds to try, Small white wings that we scarce can see Fly. Some fly light as a laugh of glee, Some fly soft as a low long sigh:...
Maikura, A Village by the Sea 
Suzanne Guldimann, September 5, 2025 0  
It was called “Maikura,” and it was home to as many as 500 people. It had a marketplace, shops, an inn, restaurants, a church, and even a Japanese garden with a bridge and a pool and a miniature forest...
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Houses of the Stars 

Suzanne Guldimann, July 25, 2025 0 10 min read  
Then people long to go on pilgrimages, And palmers to take ship for foreign shores, And distant shrines, famous in different lands… —Chaucer, The Canterbury Tale, translation from The Riverside Chaucer, Third Edition (ed. Larry D. Benson.) In 1930,...
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E. L. Doctorow 

Jimmy P. Morgan, July 25, 2025 0 10 min read  
“History is the present. That’s why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.” —E.L. Doctorow Cultural Literacy refers to the shared basic knowledge of our society that facilitates...
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Healing From Within 

Claire Fordham, July 25, 2025 0 7 min read  
Editor’s Note: We know many who embrace Reiki, but not everyone is familiar with this practice. Reiki is a system that encourages natural healing and well being, developed in the 1920s by a Japanese student of theology named Mikao Usui....