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Letting The River Flow
I try to think ahead. To be smart, make right choices. I can’t take the terrycloth robe, it’s too fluffy to pack. I can’t wear the lace-up boots to the airport. They wo
... (Read More)
By Kathie Gibboney
September 29, 2023
In The Company Of Greatness
Recently in Old Canyon around Cheese Rock, a fallen Oak Tree took down some power poles and caused major traffic problems to residents. If a tree falls in th
... (Read More)
By Kathie Gibboney
August 18, 2023
Too Long at The Fair The County Fair? On a Saturday? During a heat wave in August? I weigh the pros and cons.
The cons are obvious; crowded, problematic parking, sticky surfaces, long lines, smell of farm animals, overpriced concessions, getting lost, spilled beer, cryi
... (Read More)
By Kathie Gibboney
August 18, 2023
The Dogs of Dog Days & Other Pets We Love
Three Little Maids from School Persephone, Phoebe, and Princess It all started with Romulus, a burly handsome male, who strutted around campus with quite a
... (Read More)
By The Canyon Chronicle
Money Honey
When departing from home, whether the Beleaguered Husband is on a quest for surf, groceries, cool shoes or heading to his gig as Guardian of The Malibu Pier, I
... (Read More)
By Kathie Gibboney
Of Topanga
There was a magical place, a meadow, lush and otherworldly. I didn’t understand exactly where it was located but it certainly wasn’t the Valley. It was far
... (Read More)
By Kathie Gibboney
April 28, 2023
Kinfolk (Dedicated to Uncle Bud)
“I’ve already got six grandchildren and y’all don’t have any? What’s wrong with you California people?†asks my Cousin Sandy from Texas. “And you
... (Read More)
By Kathie Gibboney
Put Down the Worm, Put Down the Gun...
I once pulled a gun on a man. He followed me home from the second grade in that awful Bakersfield heat of 1960, where my parents had moved us from Ohio not real
... (Read More)
By Kathie Gibboney
Fixing A Hole
It’s not that I expected a lot from the new year. After all, I didn’t even stay up until midnight to usher her in but so far, 2023 has given me a real run f
... (Read More)
By Kathie Gibboney
TECS Teacher Kelly Welch Receives Grant
Kelly Welch, a fourth-grade teacher at Topanga Elementary Charter School (TECS), was recently awarded a grant by Donors Choose to support the social and emotion
... (Read More)
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A ‘Ho-Ho Humbug’ Christmas Carol 2022
Last year at this time, the Beleaguered Husband, knowing my deep and abiding love for Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,†purchased tickets for us to see a prod
... (Read More)
By Kathie Gibboney
Glamour
There is a tree that grows aslant the creek over on Valley Drive just off Old Canyon. I frequently park beside it, yet never truly saw it until a friend mention
... (Read More)
By Kathie Gibboney
Beyond The Pumpkin Patch
Ah, the October Country. If you’re lucky you discover it when you’re young. Maybe you’re living in the wilds of Illinois as did Ray Bradbury; or the
... (Read More)
By Kathie Gibboney
The Present
There are occasions when time stands still, or at least slows because the moment is of such glorious importance it begs one to stop and recognize it. Time stood
... (Read More)
By Kathie Gibboney
The Dog I Needed
I hadn’t thought I needed a dog. Especially some half-grown, crazy, large-eared, black animal that slunk away the first time I saw it. “There’s a pup
... (Read More)
By Kathie Gibboney
Peaceable Planet
It happens this time of year. An inner craving awakes. Some primal longing draws me like a Siren’s song and helpless I am to resist the, Call of The Sea. If
... (Read More)
By Kathie Gibboney
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FREE Wildfire & Disaster NOAA Weather Alert Radios
SAVE THE DATES! August 13 and 16. Free NOAA Weather Alert Radios will be given out on Saturday, August 13, 10 a.m.–12 p.m. and on Tuesday, August 16, 5 p.m.â€
... (Read More)
By The Canyon Chronicle
ODE TO AN AGAVE
Rising majestically from the side of our hill, the Agave Americana stalk is in bloom. It stands impressively proud, colossal, defiant. Each day, in fact seeming
... (Read More)
By Kathie Gibboney
Sometime (for Lily Carey)
I’m talking to a Topanga child, about five years old. He is fleet of foot and fearless. He has amazing physical abilities; running, jumping, turning somersaul
... (Read More)
By Kathie Gibboney
Once In A Lifetime
The peace of a Topanga Saturday morning is disrupted as I hear the Beleaguered Husband swearing while battling the tangled, obstreperous garden hose outside our
... (Read More)
By Kathie Gibboney
Living with Wildlife
Ayoung Botta’s Pocket Gopher (Thomomys bottae) arrived at California Wildlife Center (CWC) late in January, its 40th patient of the new year, after being caug
... (Read More)
By The Canyon Chronicle
Gophers Be Gone
Roses were blooming in the garden when we moved to the house in an April of some 27 years ago. They must have been planted by the landlord’s grandmother long
... (Read More)
By Kathie Gibboney
Electronic Records & the Lost Art of Medicine
Dr. Paul Farmer, a pioneer in global medicine and champion of those for whom medical care is as remote a possibility as their locations, passed away in Rwanda t
... (Read More)
By Paula Labrot
Of Cookies and COVID
The fortune cookie sits on the surfboard coffee table right in front of me. I moved it from the kitchen where it lay, ignored, left over from some long-ago take
... (Read More)
By The Canyon Chronicle
Clear as a Bell
There are dreams I have, sometimes recurring, disturbing dreams from which I wake, shaken, spent and drained, as if I’ve had no sleep at all. There’s the aw
... (Read More)
By Kathie Gibboney
Abstract in Portland
I saw autumn! A true autumn alive, burnished and glowing. We planned a visit to Portland where our daughter, Miranda, has moved and who better than us to, as th
... (Read More)
By Kathie Gibboney
Into The Mystic
Ah, what to wear to an outdoor concert, a Van Morrison concert, at night, on my birthday (I’ll not mention which one)? I know there are larger questions to po
... (Read More)
By Kathie Gibboney
Equine Leadership Program
Hangin’ with the Herd Kayak Kayak was born 22 years ago in France as a pure black colt, his genes arising from an old Baroque Lusitano bloodline. He was bro
... (Read More)
By The Canyon Chronicle
My Sign
Mysterious white chalk markings appeared on the street in front of our house, cryptic and vexing. Viewed at a distance from our patio, the letters were illegibl
... (Read More)
By Kathie Gibboney
The Cat And Mouse Days Of Summer
The cat lies on the cool marble of the fireplace hearth, snoring. I’m hoping the last mouse has been caught. It seems that for the entire summer the Have
... (Read More)
By Kathie Gibboney
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