A Cambria Slice of Life

Sometimes, by keeping open minds in unlikely spots, we can learn what a small world it really is. This time, we’d paused at a Highway 5 rest...

A few years ago at the San Simeon Chamber of Commerce office, a tourist gestured toward the chamber’s manager and said to me, “She’s such a ...

This column ran in The Cambrian Nov. 19, 1987, long before TIVO, iPods and widespread reliance on the Internet. Because we are modified Ludd...

There I was, flat on my back on a gurney at the doctor’s office, talking politics. It felt really strange, as if I’d walked into the wrong m...

Soon, the Tanners will have guests for a week, all of whom are on the Atkins Diet. Since we dine closer to the vegetarian side of the dietar...

“There are no gold medals, no loving cups and no elaborately inscribed certificates to laud David Yudovin's all-time world record ” achi...

It was just a little thing--a shiny piece of heavy paper folded to about 2 inches square and sporting a perky photo of an otter. Under the s...