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‘Lack of Planning on Your Part Doesn’t Constitute an Emergency …
Oct 31, 2024 · In a world that glorifies hustle and celebrates busyness, it’s easy to get swept up in the idea that urgency equals importance. But one thing is clear: A lack of preparation on your part does not give you the right to hijack my time
Patagonia in Four Seasons - The Santa Barbara Independent
Jan 2, 2025 · The following day, we drive to Laguna Figueroa on a route taken countless times by tourists toward Torres del Paine. A two-hour walk leads us first along Chorrillo Picana, Picana Creek, then up the side of a hill, where we crouch down through dwarf forests of the twisted low growing ñire, Antarctic beech.This is surely a place where los duendes, spirits of …
Book Review | ‘Tell Me Everything’ by Elizabeth Strout
Oct 16, 2024 · I honestly don’t know how much I would have enjoyed Elizabeth Strout’s latest novel, Tell Me Everything, if I hadn’t already been familiar with the major characters from her previous books.There’s cantankerous but big-hearted Olive Kitteridge of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel and also Olive, Again.Then we have novelist Lucy Barton of My Name Is Lucy Barton and Lucy by the Sea, and ...
‘A Series of Lies’ ― Ely Family Denounces DA for Clearing Deputies …
Oct 15, 2020 · One year to the day after their brother Cameron Ely ― the son of Tarzan actor Ron Ely ― was shot 22 times by Santa Barbara Sheriff’s deputies, Kirsten Ely and Kaitland Ely Sweet and their attorneys held a tearful news conference in the driveway of the family’s Hope Ranch home to rebuke a new report by the District Attorney’s Office that ruled the shooting a …
Ten Years After the Isla Vista Killings
May 22, 2024 · Reporter Mark Follman with Mother Jones has investigated the killings extensively, culminating in a new book on the incident. It includes the first public conversation with the killer’s mother, Chin Rodger. She had called the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office for a welfare check on her son a month before the murders, but …
Book Review | ‘James’ by Percival Everett - The Santa Barbara ...
Apr 17, 2024 · If you were going to choose an author to rewrite The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the point of view of Jim/James, it would be difficult to find a better candidate for the job than Percival Everett, the dexterous master of multiple genres whose bitter satire Erasure became the outstanding film American Fiction.Everett’s reframing of Mark Twain’s novel involves a …
String of Fatal Vehicle Collisions Claim Three Lives in Santa Barbara ...
Oct 1, 2024 · The last two days brought a series of vehicle collisions in Santa Maria and Santa Barbara that cost three people their lives, including that of an 11-year-old girl.