By Shawn Dell Joyce
Local tips for finding new-to-you furniture, clothes, and homewares in Orange County, and reasons for “making do with less” to conserve resources and energy.

By Russ Layne
We asked if we could buy a small piece of property to preserve some sense of privacy. The seller’s response: “You can’t afford it. You’re school teachers.”

Garden of Eden.

Where is our spring?

By Michael Kaufman
Rush Limbaugh says teachers are running an “easy money scam.” This from a man who makes millions of dollars for sitting at a microphone and spouting whatever bit of stupidity and bigotry pops into his head.

By Shawn Dell Joyce
In many cases, people litter because they feel no sense of ownership and because they think someone else will pick up after them.

By Jeffrey Page
We even have 127 troops stationed in Canada, where I think they like us, and 17 in Venezuela, where I think they don’t.

Blue-Butterfly Day – by Robert Frost
It is blue-butterfly day here in spring,
And with these sky-flakes down in flurry on flurry
There is more unmixed color on the wing
Than flowers will show for days unless they hurry.

But these are flowers that fly and all but sing:
And now from having ridden out desire
They lie closed over in the wind and cling
Where wheels have freshly sliced the April mire.

Path to Enlightenment – “Those who arrive at their destination teach those who are still on the path, while those still on the path are sources of wisdom for the teacher.” Lao Tzu – Tao Te Ching

By Jeffrey Page
One of these days we’re going to get serious and acknowledge that as nice and as cheap as it would be to derive our energy needs from a stack of radioactive rocks, nuclear plants will always be a danger.