Welcome to the Slo Coast Journal. Published online monthly, the Journal is here to bring you information specific to our part of California's Central Coast.
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. " Albert Einstein
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 One Squire's Singular Reflection
Running in Circles Trying to Find Someone - Who Can Say What Life Is All About So That - Maybe I Can Say What I'm All About? Read More in Observations of a Country Squire
Supersized Myths Behind Breed Specific Legislation (BSL)
Myth: Assumption that virtually every dog is a mix of purebred ingredients and that visually conducted breed identification of a dog is accurate.
Myth: Assumption that certain breeds are aggressive and/or vicious. Currently the myth falls on Pit Bulls. Read More in Best Friends
The Thrill of the Chase - The Joy of Sexus
Now that I've reached my seventh decade, people often ask me, "What has compelled you to study the ancient world all these years?" Less tactful friends are apt to mutter, "What on earth drove you to ruin your eyesight on such dry and dusty material?"
My answer is invariably the same to both questions: my still-ravenous curiosity about long-ago events and long-dead men and women — a hunger that remains unsatisfied even now, after 40-some years of study. Although I admire temples of learning such as Oxford and UC Berkeley, I was never drawn to the vicarious, orderly, years-long pursuit of arcane knowledge. I wasn't attracted to second-hand experience, either, even at the feet of learned scholars. Read More
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The Bay and Human Health at Stake
They stand exposed to the effects of a new and longer-term outfall lease for the Morro Bay Power Plant, which the outgoing Morro Bay City Council enacted before the new Council could be seated and assume responsibility for the highly-controversial lease, which is expected to bring the city more income but expose it to the potential for negative consequences for the Morro Bay National Estuary and the health of people living in the area. Read More
Will MB/CSD WWTP Get Built?
There is a lot of skepticism about the city of Morro Bay and the Cayucos Sanitary District board coming together and agreeing to a joint effort to build a new waste water treatment plant. But there are some knowledgeable people in and and of their two camps who think it is going to happen — if you can wait that long. Is the Morro Bay-Cayucos Sanitary District wastewater treatment plant dead? Read More
Miracle of the Monarchs
Jacob and Kathy headed for the trailer housing the butterfly docents' alluring wares. Without a word, we marveled together at the subtle shift of perception we had experienced at these everyday miracles that had managed to bring us once again to a sudden acute remembrance of the miracle of life. The miracle of love. The miracle of the open heart. The miracle of one small redhead with a faint sprinkling of freckles dusting his nose, bright blue eyes that sparkle and dance and make our hearts smile, and his gleeful grin that easily expands us all into becoming involuntary emissaries of the richness of being. Read More
Red-eyed Tree Frog
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Shutterbugs - Featuring Donald Quintana
Wildlife and nature are my obsessions. I think they always have been. Often times I blame my Native American bloodline, though, much like my hairline, that excuse is getting a little bit thin. I have always had a passion for nature. I grew up here in the central coast of California and have called Los Osos my home for the last 38 years, though my family name arrived in the 1840's. I now raise my children here. They climb the same trees I did and build forts where the rusty nails of my childhood can still be found. The local flora and fauna have remained relatively untouched and remain the same as when I was growing up. Read More |
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