Opinion

“The Unexamined Life is not worth Living.” —Socrates The Press Banner kindly published articles readily searched at pressbanner.com, which cumulatively give local readers comprehensive financial education. Stylistically divergent, sometimes fictional, they either constitute general planning advice (“What is Financial Planning,” “Your Home, Your Wealth and...

By this time of the year, you probably have planted some new perennials for color in your garden. But if you look around and still feel something is missing the answer may be that your landscape needs more than color. As a landscape designer,...

There’s something about fall that naturally invites a reset. Summer tends to run on a different rhythm. Schedules loosen, routines shift, vacations interrupt the usual flow, and longer days encourage us to squeeze in just a little more. Then fall arrives. School starts, calendars fill...

It was many years ago…I believe it would have been in late September, when Sister Agnes Marie corralled me, telling me to put on my “long pants” for I was going with “old” Joe, the tramp who had made a home for himself in...

Lately I’ve been looking at my garden and what’s blooming now while also thinking of what to recommend for new gardens. Seems I’m always drawn to bright colors like coral, purple, dark pink, but then I love my yellow Flowering Maple and the hummingbirds...

My entire life has revolved around our ocean’s bounty, whether it be in the fierce beauty of storms I’ve witnessed living next to its waters in Ventura or during my early years living in Aberdeen, Wash. My winter memories are of fog lying low along...