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Unbridled History 
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Year of the Horse 
Suzanne Guldimann, February 6, 2026 0  
All over the world, people will be celebrating the Lunar New Year on February 17, and welcoming the Year of the Fire Horse. One of the twelve Asian zodiac animals, the horse is a powerful presence that is said...
Deadly Mushrooms 
Suzanne Guldimann, January 23, 2026 1  
Foraging for mushrooms? Don’t die.  That’s the message from California Poison Control this winter. Thirty-five people have gotten sick so far this season after consuming death cap mushrooms they mistook for edible varieties. Three of the victims needed liver...
The Palisades Fire: One Year Later 
Suzanne Guldimann, January 9, 2026 0  
Life changed for everyone in Pacific Palisades, Topanga and Malibu on January 7 2025. A year after the Palisades Fire those who live or work in its shadow still aren’t used to the endless roadwork, the delays, the road...
Retrospective: Pacific Palisades-Paradise Lost 
Suzanne Guldimann, December 26, 2025 0  
Originally published in the February 21, 2025 issue of Topanga New Times The Palisades fire is named for the Palisades Highlands, where the blaze erupted on the morning of January 7, 2025. The conflagration rapidly spread throughout Pacific Palisades...
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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....