Fictional Friends: COVID’s Perfect Companions
Quarantine has left me overly involved in the lives of my streaming pals.
Author: Starshine Roshell
Unity? Nah. Togetherness? Yes, Please.
Big thoughts from a small room while awaiting my COVID results.
Screw Hope. Trust Tenacity.
How Hannah-Beth Jackson beat the drum for women’s rights.
Why Are So Many Folks Hankering for a Pandemic Pup?
Columnist takes this quaran-tunity to adopt a furry friend.
Enlisting the Break-Up Pros
Could Japan’s Wakaresaseya woo away our ball-and-chain POTUS?
Zooming Away from Privacy
Nonstop video conferencing puts our once-secret sanctuaries on display.
The (COVID-) 19 Reasons to Support the ‘Santa Barbara Independent’
Our columnist’s perfectly proportioned list of why to support this newspaper now.
Mating in Captivity?
Why the wave of “quarantine babies” must be a myth.
My Social Distancing Diary
Starshine reports from weeks of Santa Barbara isolation with her quaranteens.
Starshine Reflects on the Women’s Suffrage Centennial
Susan B. Anthony’s Santa Barbara sojourn was just one stop on the rough road to get the vote.