Harmony Outhouse by Kevin Cole
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"Seasons Come, Seasons Go" by Judy Sullivan
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Ask the Doc by Dr. Robert Swain

Here are some benefits of crack.  It relieves back pain, neck pain, and headaches.  It gets rid of stiffness and makes you feel energetic again.  It makes you feel good — almost like euphoria.  Read More

Beyond the Badge by Richard Hannibal

People keep asking me my age. Could it be my white hair and mustache? Maybe they think I used to be the oldest cop in the world. I usually answer with the words I heard long ago, "How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?" Read More

Best Friends by Malcolm Riordan, DVM

Statistics overwhelmingly reveal that the person who poisons pets is most often a person in the pet's home — the owner or another household member!  Despite the best of intentions, it comes down to a lack of awareness. The pets' suffering, owner expense, and the cruel guilt of poisoning one's own pet is common yet avoidable. Read More

Double Vision by Shana Ogren

Do you communicate with god?  I thank, yet also curse and blame god, all the time.  Some people use prayer, or song, or a book in order to connect with god.  I use my own version of a spiritual post office.  It is home-aide, as the most important objects usually are. Read More

Feel Better Forever by Brian Dorfman

Here's a sketch of a shoulder case we fixed at BDK. And it was a serious one. But, like most other cases that come thru our doors, the situation was addressed with a combination of massage, biomechanic adjustment and stretching. Read More

Go Green! by Lawson Schaller

People can start saving money in the first month of installing a solar electric system.  Over time, the cost difference between paying PG&E and your solar electric system becomes even more significant.  This is why solar is an excellent investment. Many sources and studies show attractive pay back periods and return on investment with solar electric systems.  Paybacks are often in the five to seven year time frame.  Future payback/savings are even greater. Once installed, a solar electric system will reliably produce power for decades to come with inflation protection. Read More

The Human Condition by John Bullaro

No rational person believes the government will take away their automobile because they (the government) restricts them from driving drunk, parking in red zones, or traveling on the left side of the street.  Nor do they believe they'll eventually loose their vehicle to the government because they are required pass a drivers test, and have a driver's license, before they can legally drive. No one believes enforceable restrictions on driving are an assault on their rights to own and to drive their car or truck. (Yes, yes, driving is a privilege, not a constitutionally guaranteed right.)  Read More

Northern Chumash Tribal Council

Let me begin by saying that the fact I even have to write an article concerning Native American Mascots is a shame.  These racist images and names offensive to American Indian people should have been long gone by now.  Yet here they are, still tomahawk-chopping us with racism in sports and media while they grin at us like that red-faced racist "chief wahoo,"who just moved into Templeton last year and is the reason that I have to explain what is wrong with Native American Mascots. I get a little sick and tired of trying to explain what is racist about these names and mascots.  This is not about political correctness. It is about racism on a national scale, and it must stop. Read More 

Observations of a Country Squire by George Zidbeck

A few times over the past couple of years of writing for the Slo Coast Journal, I referenced Norco, a rural unincorporated area in Riverside County, California during the mid 1940s. That time period in that locale, during my early adolescence, opened up many an unforeseen door for me. My life slanted in a different direction than one that might have taken place had my family remained in the Panama Canal Zone throughout WW II and beyond. When my father joined the U.S. Merchant Marines toward the end of the war, we had to leave the Canal Zone. My mother elected to take herself and her four children to one of her sisters who lived in California. In Norco, I learned about horses and cows, plus the caring for a range of domesticated fowl and rabbits. That 'country' education continued even after my mother moved her family of five out of her sister's home to subsequently rent elsewhere in Norco.  Read More

One Cool Earth by Greg Ellis

Our world reads like a math equation gone bad — the basic needs and bottomless desires of eight billion people on one side, increasingly scarce water, food, and energy on the other.  Even people who do not love and appreciate math see the conflict here.  Environmental destruction, war and economic collapse seem inevitable to force balance.  These are the bodings of the Math of Doom. Before you blow your money on guns and survival supplies, please consider a cheaper, happier solution: permaculture.  Read More

Surfing Out Of The Box by Paul Finley

At the end of last year my family and I closed down the surfboard shop that we had been running for the last few years. I am excited about the new direction that we are moving in and even more excited about more time with the family and being able to give them more focused attention. Read More

As our world's most extreme recyclers, From War to Peace has decided to make the hippest, most meaningful jewelry created on our planet affordable to all in these challenging economic times. Two-thirds of all FWTP jewelry offerings will now retail for less than $30.