Getting Older Is Inevitable, Becoming an Elder Is a Choice
A hand gesture I do without thinking, 60 leaders in a Santa Barbara workshop, and what a $10 encyclopedia taught me about the difference between growing old and growing up.
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Our 2026 Active Aging Guide
From tennis to hiking trails to yoga mats, discover how Santa Barbara Seniors are staying active.
Protesters Gather Outside Santa Barbara’s Camp Canine to Demand ‘Justice for Bruce’
The one-year-old English bulldog was found drowned in one of the dog day care’s pools last week.
Corruption
There’s way too many people who are okay with all the corruption going on in government.
Beyond Guardrails: AI and Civilizational Coherence
Unless the development of AI is situated within a much broader inquiry into the civilization directing it, guardrails may merely manage the consequences of a system whose underlying trajectory remains unchanged.
Why Not?
Why not ask the UCSB chancellor the most obvious question?
Review | Wynton Marsalis Septet Satisfies at Santa Barbara’s Lobero Theatre
Intimate jazz show lets each member’s talent shine.
Tiana Tackles A Wedding and Special Sections
This week, we heard from our editor of Active Aging, Tiana Molony, who is recently back from a trip to
Free Will Astrology
Week of July 23.
When Power Becomes Its Own Undoing
A personal hunger for power and a sense of historical, almost religious, mission fuse in megalonamia, and the leader cannot tell the difference between what they want and what the world needs.
