When people call Nancy Eastland, the first thing she tells them is, “Don’t throw anything out.” Not a single nail, button, or half-spent sack of flour. “I want the cleaning supplies under the sink, I want the health and beauty aids in the bathroom, I want the food in the cupboards,” said Eastland, now in [...]

Senior Day for the Bonita varsity baseball couldn’t have been any more perfect. Sam Stavang threw his second consecutive no-hitter — this superlative effort a 1-0 shutout over Diamond Bar — the Bearcats won their 28th straight league game (I think the last time Bonita lost a league game the first Bush was president.), and [...]

Okay, here’s why advertising pays off and better advertising pays off even more handsomely. While enjoying a tostada at the Rose Café in Santa Barbara, I pick up the local paper, the Montecito Journal (May 2-9), and on page 5 in the upper right-hand corner, I spy a quarter-page ad that simply shows a bronzed lemony [...]

Outside of Napoleon and Charlemagne, the French may not make the best fighters or warriors — at least my World War II veteran dad told me so — but as far as their passion for art and architecture goes, they are nonpareil. In particular, three French architectural styles have dramatically influenced the art and science of [...]

Jason Collins ‘outed’ himself last week. Yes I know he plays basketball and not baseball. (Just gimme a minute to get there, ok?) Collins, in case it’s possible you are not aware, is the first active player in one of the four major United States team sports to declare his homosexuality. It’s a big [...]