Laughter yoga exercises the funny bone for a variety of health benefits.
By Mike Nelson
Photo by Mike Baker
LET IT GO: There’s no room for embarrassment during a laughter yoga session, where getting silly is the point – and the prescription...
Actress and director Jessi May Stevenson finds truth at the eye of the emotional storm.
By Emily Dodi, Photos by Michael Montano
can’t not do this,” says actor and director Jessi May Stevenson. “I can’t not be a lizard.”
Stevenson is referring...
connects kids to their natural world.
By Kit Stolz
avid White, a biologist and educator, leads the Once Upon a Watershed environmental education group that works to connect school children in Ojai and Ventura with their watershed around the Ventura River,...
The Fillmore and Western Railway recreates the excitement and enchantment of train travel.
BY MARK STORER
Trains are an American myth. With the stature of Arthurian legend, trains resonate now (mostly in the minds of people of a certain age) with...
By Chuck Graham.
The two weathered, wave-battered sea stacks were prominent on the western horizon. Jutting 100 feet high and just off the beach at Willows Anchorage on the south side of Santa Cruz Island, they were an incredible site...
By Leslie A. Westbrook | photos by Luis Chavez
he Hopi carve and paint Kachina dolls that are given to children to learn the spiritual and religious significance attached to them. Any sensitive person who has encountered these emblems can...
By Alex Wilson | Photos by Luis Chavez
journey to England provided inspiration for an Oxnard family to replace their backyard lawn with a more natural and seasonal meadow-style garden.
Catherine Lewis and her husband Wayne joined a garden tour with...
By Mike Nelson
At the Wilson family farm in Rochester, New Hampshire, 9-year-old Kay, one of six children, watches her mother feed, for the umpteenth time, “hobos,” men hungry and without homes.
As they sit on the back step of the...
By Nancy D. Lackey Shaffer
While the California beer boom has been going strong for decades — San Francisco’s Anchor Steam showed up on the scene in 1971, long before the term “craft brewing” had been coined — ciders are...
by Karen Lindell
Milt and Arlene Larsen have worked their magical touch on Montecito.
Milt, co-founder of the Magic Castle in Hollywood, and Arlene, a costume designer, have brought their love of magic, old-school entertainment and show-biz memorabilia to a new...
