Once, when I was interviewing a nonprofit leader about a surge in charitable giving, she made an off-the-cuff comment that has always stuck with me: “People first want to be successful in life, then they want their lives to be significant.” Maybe that’s why the title of Rebecca Newberger Goldstein’s new book caught my eye:…
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It’s a weekend in the desert, and the Joshua Tree Mobile Sauna is parked in the dirt at Más o Menos looking, at first glance, like any ordinary trailer. Then the door opens. The wood inside seems to glow. A plume of heat spills out, followed by people emerging flushed, damp, and smiling like they’ve…
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From September 2022 until his death in August 2025, my father-in-law lived in an Alzheimer’s care facility. We had moved him from Lakewood, Washington, where he’d lived and worked for over a decade after his retirement as a full colonel with 30 years’ service in the United States Air Force as a psychologist. His friends…
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In a time when data shows that mental health is in a state of crisis, Cedars-Sinai researchers are seeing some promising results using virtual reality and AI technology to increase treatment options and availability. Dr. Omer Liran, a psychiatrist who is developing and studying AI and VR technologies for mental health at Cedars-Sinai in Los…
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It was raining on the day that I walked to the Death Café. I sheltered beneath a red umbrella and skirted puddles on the sidewalk. The low clouds made the world seem smaller, cozier. Thinking of death was almost cliché in weather like this, but it was also unavoidable. In the span of a few…
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It’s been a rough winter in the Midwest, South and East, but in California we’ve been the beneficiaries of something the state has long needed: extended, steady rain to fill our reservoirs and create a deep snowpack in the Sierras. The U.S. Drought Monitor showed California with no abnormally dry areas anywhere within its boundaries,…
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5 Freeway through Grapevine, Frazier Mountain Communities and Mojave Desert Slopes are under an updated wind advisory which was issued by the National Weather Service on Tuesday at 12:48 p.m. The advisory is valid from Wednesday 10 a.m. until Thursday Feb. 5, at 10 a.m. “Northeast winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to…
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By DEE-ANN DURBIN, Associated Press It’s a tale as old as time, or at least as old as TikTok: chicken nuggets lovingly topped with a dab of caviar. McDonald’s is embracing the trend this Valentine’s Day with a limited-time McNugget Caviar kit. The free kit, which will be available on McNuggetCaviar.com on Feb. 10, pairs…
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By OPE ADETAYO, Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The U.S. has dispatched a small team of military officers to Nigeria, the general in charge of U.S. Africa Command told reporters in a briefing on Tuesday. General Dagvin R.M. Anderson said the move followed his meeting with Nigeria’s president, Bola Tinubu, in Rome late last…
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It’s official: San Jose’s dynamic Democratic Mayor, Matt Mahan, will be on this June’s primary ballot as a candidate for California governor. Mahan’s campaign plans are quite unusual for a California Democrat: He’s running on his record. In a recent post on X, Mahan said that he “reduced unsheltered homelessness by nearly 1/3rd after a…
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