Off the California coast, sits a small town split by the Pacific Coast Highway and in this town actually stood a salmon colored Victorian home where a not so young couple first learned how to trust. This was my second marriage. I was in my forties with a divorce under my belt, a job I hated, and...

I recently opened up my chest of childhood memories, faced a decade I had long since forgotten, and wrote these words: “It was the hippest of times. It was the funkiest of times. It was the 1970s.” And I grew up right there in the middle of it. I won talent shows. I went to camp. I fought...

Good relationships take a certain kind of magic to succeed, and what Alex Petroya seems to have is the wrong magic. After his wife Stephanie leaves, Alex has one place left to go: The pink house his parents left to him in Cambria, California....

In the history of philosophy, there have been many theories about ethics but none have been straightforward enough to understand and use in everyday life. That ends now with dynamic pluralism. Dynamic Pluralism presents a system of ethics that is not only easy to understand and easy to use...

In the early '70s, in the middle of the night, on a dried-out lawn in a broken-down neighborhood in the Southern Californian community of Santa Ana, Nate Brewer’s mother held him as they watched his father leave them to an uncertain future. After that, it was every man for himself. At least...

Politicians on Capitol Hill make sweeping decisions about vast sums of money, draconian laws, the fate of armies…and those decisions are just too big for us to experience on a personal level. But not if you ask Sherry Finn....

On a beautiful, spring afternoon, a broken man stands at his wife's funeral and hears the words, “Heaven Enough.” Thus begins a poem about longing, about wishing for something more. "What would it be like if I had heaven enough?" it reads. Matt Murphy reads these words for the first time...

Jackson is just a Wal-Mart worker from Los Angeles, far too caught up in the apathy of modern life to believe in anything....

Andy Hollis, ersatz instructor of art at Santa Ana High School, has won…if slightly. He has inspired a classroom of artists, leaving him to decide who will be chosen for the next work of art....