I hate to brag – OK, so I’m a bragger. Back in 1964, before I attended Chapman College, I enrolled at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, where one of the classes I enrolled in was drama. Why drama, you ask? Because I had already taken two years of drama classes at...
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Estate Planning: Why your trust isn’t enough — What happens when property isn’t funded
You created a revocable living trust and think you are covered. You might be wrong. The most important step after signing your trust is funding – the process of transferring your assets into the trust. Without this step, the trust may not control everything you...
Ask the realtor: Cold nights, hot topic — Your landlord’s duty to provide heat
When a recent post in the Facebook group RimEverything asked neighbors where to find a small space heater because “the owners said they’re not coming to fix it until it gets super incredibly cold,” the replies were full of local empathy – and quiet frustration. It’s a...
Advance Directive vs POLST: Know the Key Differences
When it comes to planning for future medical care, two documents often create confusion: the Advance Health Care Directive (AHCD) and the POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment). While both are important, they serve different purposes. Understanding how...
Those Were The Days: Camping trip to Little Bear Valley – Part 2
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Historian Several families are traveling together in heavily laden wagons to take a multi-week camping trip to Kuffel Canyon near Little Bear Valley to escape the sizzling late-summer, early-fall days of 1905. The horse-drawn wagons are...
Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott: Monster Mash
Back in the day – don’t recall exactly which day it was – my dear friend Helen of Leeds used to visit us here at Motley Manor several times a year. By the way, Leeds is a town in northern England where The Who recorded their “Live at Leeds” album. On her last visit,...






