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Life is short. We have heard this often throughout our lives. The problem is that we do not realize this until one day we say “Wow—this is it?” Why is it so difficult for us to digest this message? Our brain is only set up to accept small changes. I hear from clients as they...

Eelgrass collected and replanted in underwater regions around Newport Beach are flourishing, according to Marine Restoration Director Katie Nichols of Orange County Coastkeeper. The green, slender seagrass has been planted in the area for nearly a decade, but even grasses planted...

Corona del Mar resident Marilyn Broughton, an active volunteer for the Newport Beach Fire Department’s Community Emergency Response Team, died Saturday. She was 72. Friends and family describe Broughton as a wonderful person who was passionate about giving back to the community...

A group of Newport Beach lifeguard hopefuls took to the sand and water over the weekend to try out for the seasonal team. About 55 men and women raced in the sand and took a swim test in the chilly ocean water on Saturday. Approximately 30 were selected for follow-up interviews....

Today, my oldest son graduates from high school. In three weeks, we take him to begin the next chapter of his life as a college student, where he will be a 14 hour drive away from his friends, his girlfriend, and…me. To say that I am a hot mess of emotions would be a gross...

“I’m making a mess, Dada.” So says Eden Spencer to her father, Josh, in the opening moments of the short documentary film, “Welcome to the Last Bookstore.” Like Eden, each of us regularly makes a mess out of this life, but what viewers will discover about Spencer is that he was...

“Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.” This is not my quote, but one from Eckhart Tolle’s book “The New Earth.” When life does not always go according to plan, which at times it does not, it is how we manage those challenges that matters. I believe...

How many of us grew up on Cinderella, Batman and the Cleavers? As a child we would sit wide eyed looking and dreaming about how life was going to be when we grew up, how we might be swept off our feet by Prince Charming, become a super hero and save the world, or have that...

A local event producing and marketing organization held a benefit recently in conjunction with Blood Cancer Awareness Month. Newport Beach based Expo 4 Life Events produced a Wellness Event at Essex Skyline benefiting The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Sept. 16. The event, a...

“When I was five years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.  When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.  I wrote down ‘happy.’ They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”...

“Today in America, about 50 percent of marriages end in divorce,” Jim Burns said.  “According to an article I read recently, 70 percent of marriages end in divorce in Orange County. Marriages are going to die if we don’t do something about it.” Burns was one of several who...

With my mom passing nearly a year ago, it makes me realize not only how time flies, but how important it is to enjoy and appreciate what is. I have had this lesson before, but for some reason this past year the lesson hit me over the head and I have digested it fully. As human...

We’ve all seen them—the people using Facebook as their own personal daybook of gratitude. Each day brings a new status update, clueing the rest of us in to some thing, great or small, for which they want to publicly profess their thankfulness. I did this one year, and, I must...

Newport Beach mom Brenda Ziegler, owner of BrendaKristine, relocated to Indiana last year to be closer to her husband Greg’s family. She had to leave behind her family, friends, and a home. But she brought a loyal customer following with her. Which, despite the miles, is still...

In January of this year, 40 years after her death, a photocopied, hand-written manuscript was found tucked away in a storage unit in Texas. Believed to be the last thing she worked on before her death of cancer in 1973, that manuscript has just been released as “The Eternal...

Medal of Honor recipient Gary Beikirch will be speaking at Liberty Baptist Church this Sunday, November 10, and the community is invited to attend. Beikirch is a former United States Army soldier who received the United States military’s highest decoration, the Medal of Honor,...

If grades weren’t a part of the equation, would kids still try their best? Stay motivated?  Complete assignments? Engage in class discussions? Is it possible for children to find joy in learning for learning’s sake? I say yes, yes, yes, yes, and a resounding yes. About a year...

“Quick answers are not always the same as the right ones. I find that the truth I seek is most apparent to me when I take the time to listen.” Age-old wisdom from a man who has quietly sat back, and watched life pass him by.  Octogenarian, Albert Honig, a never-married beekeeper,...

Leo is 21. His grandmother Vera is 91. She’s widowed, and lives alone in her Greenwich Village apartment. On this particular 3 a.m. in September, Leo shows up at her door, with his bicycle.  He’s just completed a cross-country trek — Seattle to New York. He needs a place to...