By Mandy Kendall I met a lady the other day who, from all appearances, looked very healthy. What’s so unusual about that you say? Well, two weeks prior to our meeting she had suffered a fairly major stroke. Fortunately for her she had received prompt medical treatment and made a full recovery. So what is […]
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By Ruth Graham, Slate The word vagina has caused trouble for a lot of women this year, from Michigan state Rep. Lisa Brown to Naomi Wolf. And now, perhaps, for a prominent evangelical writer who refused to remove the word from her new book about women and the Bible. Rachel Held Evans’ upcoming book “A […]
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The minivan-sized meteorite that broke up over the Sierra on April 22 was not just any old space rock. It was one of the rarest types of meteorites to fall to Earth — a carbonaceous chondrite, the earliest solid material to form in the solar system more than 4.5 billion years ago, before the planets, […]
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By Sarah Kliff, Washington Post In 1972, Stanford University’s Walter Mischel sat 600 children down at a table with a marshmallow and gave them a choice: They could eat one marshmallow now, or wait 15 minutes and get two marshmallows. The ability to hold out for the latter correlated with greater success and self control […]
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Jazzy is a 7-year-old beagle-Lab mix who loves to go for walks and car rides. She is in the prime of her life, and is the perfect dog for someone who wants a nice, calm, yet fun companion. Jazzy is house trained and has great manners, plus she likes other well-mannered dogs. She will wait […]
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South Lake Tahoe Art League is hosting a fund-raising lunch for Peter Darvas on Oct. 18 from 1-5pm at at Tepp’s Villa Roma, 3450 Lake Tahoe Blvd., South Lake Tahoe. Darvas suffered the loss of his studio and home on Pioneer Trail to fire last month. Live music will be provided by Patrick Major. Menu […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe went to the dogs Sunday during the 8th annual Mutt Strut. It wasn’t just South Shore residents participating in the fundraiser – some came from Squaw, others from the Bay Area, even San Diego. And a few foreign languages could be heard, too. Starting at Regan Beach on Oct. […]
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By Kathryn Reed SAN SIMEON – Clearly, I worked for the Hearst Corporation in the wrong era. Well, come to think of it, I don’t think any of William Randolph Hearst’s employees were ever invited to his castle, so I guess it didn’t really matter when I worked for the Examiner and Chronicle. But what […]
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By Susan Wood CAMBRIA – It’s easy to fall in love with the Central Coast of California in autumn – or during any other time of year for that matter. With so much to do and see, what will soon become apparent on a trip through a region that stretches from Santa Cruz to Santa […]
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By Bryan Walsh, Time When my predecessors at Time reviewed ecologist Rachel Carson’s book “Silent Spring” 50 years ago this month, they were less than impressed. While the piece praised her graceful writing style, it argued that Carson’s “emotional and inaccurate outburst” was “hysterically overemphatic,” which I believe is a fancy way of saying that […]
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