Ken La Salle

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.

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”....

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....

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....

Dynamic Pluralism presents a system of ethics that is not only easy to understand and easy to use but beneficial to the lives of those who do so. It filters out the philosophical jargon so popular in academic circles and structures ethics that it is accessible to everyone....

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....

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....

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