By Richard Riehl Today I agreed to donate my brain to medical science. (I’ll pause here to allow regular readers of my published opinion pieces to stop laughing.) Twenty-two years ago, after an afternoon...

By Richard Riehl Donald Trump says his use of social media, countering what he calls fake news, made him president. This morning, as I watched the DOW sink by more than 900 points (so much for his recovering...

By Richard Riehl Twenty years ago, Karen awakened me in the middle of the night to tell me she had a sharp pain in her stomach. When the pain became unbearable I drove her to the hospital. We discovered...

By Richard Riehl San Diego County’s Health and Human Services Agency issues daily reports on the number of Coronavirus cases in each city. Here are the counts for North County, as of July 21, indicating...

By Richard Riehl The day after the World Health Organization declared the spread of the virus a pandemic, President Trump addressed the nation from the Oval Office. “We’re all in this together,”...

By Richard Riehl It’s Cocooning Day 50, with no Covid-9 cases so far in our Château Lake San Marcos community. Karen and I wear facemasks when we leave our condo to take daily walks. We discovered...

By Richard Riehl Our next-door neighbor died last night. But he was much more than a neighbor. He was a best friend, a father figure, and a 103 year-old icon of a life well-lived. Karen and I met him...

By Richard Riehl It’s Day 14 of our lockdown in the Château Lake San Marcos retirement community. None of our 140 residents have been diagnosed with COVID 19. Yesterday, according Public Health Services,...

Cocooning in Our Own Château By Richard Riehl Two days before the pandemic was declared, we received a warning from the executive director of our 55+ senior community. The Château’s salad bar would...

By Richard Riehl All three male members of the San Marcos Planning Commission, whose two-year terms expired in December, were reappointed by the mayor and city council in January. The only woman on the...

Preserving Carlsbad's Future the Right Way By Richard Riehl Citizen activism triumphed over corporate greed last week when Carlsbad voters defeated Measure A. If approved it would have transformed the...