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TrumpJ.D. VanceKristi NoemRenee Good A TRULY GREAT LIFE - You know, I’ve had a really great life. Before I retired more than 20 years ago I had a very successful business career and I followed that with a successful second career writing political commentary about local events here and elsewhere.  Even though I’ve throttled that back, this blog has received more than 4.3 million page views and still gets thousands http://abubblingcauldron.blogspot.com/2026/01/fear-and-contemplating-future-of-our.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Pot Stirrer)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907480.post-1009878340774503732Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:38:00 +00002026-01-06T17:11:07.678-08:00EPIPHANY - To all my "friends" - Facebook friends, old friends, new friends, real friends, pretend friends, wannabe friends and those of you who just wandered into this space - here's a New Year's message for you.SOME HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE - As some of you already know, two decades ago, following my retirement of my consulting practice,  I began paying attention to events - http://abubblingcauldron.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-confession-apology-and-resolution.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Pot Stirrer)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907480.post-5005164273858090313Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:04:00 +00002025-07-31T10:54:05.136-07:00Angely Andrade VallartaArlis ReynoldsCharlene AshendorfCynthia McDonaldDavid MartinezGeorge SakiaokaHousingJay HumphreyJeff PettisJeffrey HarlanJenn TanakaMeasure KRHNARick HuffmanWendy Leece WHAT AND WHERE?Wednesday evening around 60 of your friends and neighbors attended the first of what is supposed to be 10 opportunities for us to express our preferences on the types of new housing being planned for Costa Mesa.  It began at 6:00 p.m. and was scheduled to run a couple hours. Seating was available for 70 and, when counting city staff and consultants, there may have been http://abubblingcauldron.blogspot.com/2025/07/housing-opportunity-workshop-73025.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Pot Stirrer)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907480.post-4385013201419659956Sat, 26 Jul 2025 08:36:00 +00002025-07-26T02:57:33.360-07:00MY OTHER MOTHER I’ve written about my mother in the past, but have not specifically written about my Susie’s mother, Joan Sabina (Adams) Cunningham.  So, today, to mark her birthday, I’ll give you a little information about this very special woman in our lives. AN ABANDONED CHILD Joan Adams was born in Worthing, England on July 25, 1919. When her mother abandoned the family her father, http://abubblingcauldron.blogspot.com/2025/07/remembering-my-other-mother.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Pot Stirrer)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907480.post-4813481683030429211Tue, 01 Apr 2025 20:53:00 +00002025-04-01T14:20:07.807-07:00TIMELY MEETING - Last night my wife and I attended the first of several Emergency Preparedness Town Halls scheduled for this spring.   This one was held at the Costa Mesa Senior Center and was 90 minutes well-spent.SMALL TURNOUT - Once again, an important community outreach effort was sparsely attended.  From my seat I counted around 20 members of the public - outnumbered again by staffhttp://abubblingcauldron.blogspot.com/2025/04/emergency-preparedness-town-hall-33125.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Pot Stirrer)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907480.post-3315049397668045571Mon, 10 Mar 2025 22:48:00 +00002025-03-10T18:48:51.481-07:00Health Care REAL WORLD STORIES - We all have read, or watched reports on television, about the latest horror stories about the economy and the ham-handed attempts by our president and his minions to “fix” it.  The troubles spread like tentacles throughout our society, including the availability and cost of health care.  Well, here is a personal, real-life story to give you some http://abubblingcauldron.blogspot.com/2025/03/dealing-with-realities-of-health-care.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Pot Stirrer)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907480.post-7646374593661267303Fri, 07 Mar 2025 10:49:00 +00002025-03-07T11:16:47.337-08:00AmericaDonald J. TrumpPutinZelenskyy(photo courtesy of NBC News)FOR THE RECORDPresident Donald J. Trump has been in office for the second time for 46 days as I write this, although sometimes it has seemed like 46 years.  A REFRESHERMost of you who read the things I post and share on my Facebook page  and here on my blog know how I feel about Trump.  A refresher - I think he’s an ignorant, arrogant, self-absorbed, http://abubblingcauldron.blogspot.com/2025/03/im-willing-to-concede-if.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Pot Stirrer)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907480.post-8672092200977227002Fri, 31 Jan 2025 03:41:00 +00002025-02-22T20:50:31.853-08:00Donald J. TrumpfriendshipgrievingA REMEMBRANCE - A year ago I wrote HERE about the passing of a friend - a man I'd known since the first day of kindergarten.  It was a melancholy remembrance, posted to mark a major change in my life - a time when more and more friends and acquaintances depart their earthly ties.ONCE MORE - Early this morning I wrote on my Facebook page about the passing of a very dear friend and http://abubblingcauldron.blogspot.com/2025/01/grief-anger-and-frustration.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Pot Stirrer)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907480.post-2087069850544515367Sun, 26 Jan 2025 20:54:00 +00002025-01-26T12:54:31.627-08:00California FiresPresident TrumpLast Friday President Trump marked "disaster Friday" by first visiting the North Carolina site of the carnage caused by Hurricane Helene, then flew directly to the Los Angeles area where he helicoptered over the Palisades Fire site, ignoring the larger and more destructive Eaton Fire site.  Following that flight he and his wife participated in a "round table" discussion with federal, state http://abubblingcauldron.blogspot.com/2025/01/president-trump-on-california-fires.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Pot Stirrer)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907480.post-8425996072171586644Wed, 15 Jan 2025 07:53:00 +00002025-01-26T12:56:04.740-08:00Lowell Hendrickson I posted this sad news on a couple Facebook pages today.SAYING GOODBYE TO SANTAMy dear fellow Panthers, it is with great sadness that I advise you that our schoolmate, Lowell Hendrickson has passed away. Lowell, a fellow Winter '59 Tyrian, was discovered deceased at his home last week after neighbors expressed concern about his absence in the community.  As some know, for many years http://abubblingcauldron.blogspot.com/2025/01/saying-goodbye-to-santa.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Pot Stirrer)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907480.post-5062837667694426630Thu, 19 Dec 2024 00:35:00 +00002024-12-18T16:35:21.155-08:00 SOLITUDE AND CONTEMPLATIONThe house is quiet as the calendar flips over to Wednesday.  I’ve finished my tardy watching my recorded football games - thank goodness for the fast forward feature! - and my sweet Susie has been quietly purring in the bedroom behind me for three hours, getting some completely unnecessary beauty sleep.THE “NEWS” MAKES CHRISTMAS PLANNING COMPLICATED This http://abubblingcauldron.blogspot.com/2024/12/easing-into-christmas.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Pot Stirrer)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907480.post-7661023574934606853Fri, 06 Dec 2024 09:53:00 +00002024-12-06T01:53:54.815-08:00Costa MesaCottie Petrie-NorrisDon HarperJeff HarlanJeff PettisJohn StephensKatrina FoleyKimberly Hall BarlowLoren GamerosLori Ann Farrell HarrisonManuel ChavezMike BuleySETTING THE SCENE - Thursday evening, December 5th, 2024, the Costa Mesa City Council held a Special Meeting at which the results of the 2024 Municipal Election would be certified and the four council members would be sworn in and seated.THE RESULTS - The following images show the final results of the Costa Mesa City Council races.  We elected a mayor and three council members.MY PLAN - http://abubblingcauldron.blogspot.com/2024/12/costa-mesa-council-members-certified.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Pot Stirrer)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907480.post-2007919198108354927Wed, 04 Dec 2024 08:18:00 +00002024-12-04T06:23:26.044-08:00EARLY HOUR, SPARSE ATTENDANCETuesday morning (at 9 a.m.!) I joined what turned out to be 26 other residents, mostly geezers like me, at the Costa Mesa Senior Center for the latest presentation by Jamboree Housing on their scheme to build a 68 unit (plus 2 management units) senior affordable project on the parking lot of the Senior Center.  This unusual early hour, mid-week, timing was a http://abubblingcauldron.blogspot.com/2024/12/senior-center-affordable-housing-project.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Pot Stirrer)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907480.post-1853186140220415760Fri, 01 Nov 2024 08:09:00 +00002024-11-02T08:24:59.042-07:00charactercivilityDonald J. TrumpelectionsKamala HarrisCONTEMPLATING THE PAST - AND THE FUTUREAs I sat on my front porch on another perfect Southern California afternoon contemplating life and awaiting hoards of trick or treaters on this glorious Halloween day, I was having very mixed feelings.  A SOLID FOUNDATION FOR A GREAT LIFEI’ve had a wonderful life!  I grew up in a loving family with hardworking, honest,  parents who guided my http://abubblingcauldron.blogspot.com/2024/11/remembering-past-and-contemplating.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Pot Stirrer)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907480.post-4224218065416823059Fri, 18 Oct 2024 04:09:00 +00002024-10-17T21:55:25.469-07:00RIGHT AND WRONG - My friend, former city council candidate and community activist Chris McEvoy, has become a frequent council critic at meetings and an occasional blogger at his Costa Mesa Lampoon site.  Click HERE to link to his most recent entry, which is the subject of this post.  By the way, I'm very grateful to him for his kind words about my blog.  I spent a lot of hourshttp://abubblingcauldron.blogspot.com/2024/10/chris-thinks-hes-right-but-hes-very.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Pot Stirrer)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907480.post-1274864479302046401Tue, 27 Aug 2024 06:08:00 +00002024-08-26T23:08:41.203-07:00Life LessonsIN NO PARTICULAR ORDER...I've had a wonderful life.  Here’s a random list of a few things I’ve learned along the way over more than eight decades. It is by no means complete and I present them in no particular order.  1 - Parental love doesn’t have to be articulated, but it should always be demonstrated.  2 - There is never enough time.  3 - With rare exceptions Higher http://abubblingcauldron.blogspot.com/2024/08/things-ive-learned-along-way.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Pot Stirrer)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907480.post-4584738905078139927Thu, 25 Jul 2024 16:57:00 +00002024-07-26T22:07:22.563-07:00Fairview Developmental CenterSPARSE CROWD FOR AN IMPORTANT ISSUE - Last night, once again, I attended a meeting about the future of the Fairview Developmental Center property - more than 100 acres near the center of Costa Mesa that has become surplus land for the State of California and, in theory, is available for new uses, mainly housing.  This meeting, at the Norma Hertzog Community Center, was very sparsely attendedhttp://abubblingcauldron.blogspot.com/2024/07/once-more-we-wade-into-fdc-morass.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Pot Stirrer)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907480.post-6935863064143525218Mon, 29 Jan 2024 09:02:00 +00002024-01-29T01:11:15.905-08:00AN UNEXPECTED DEPARTUREOn Wednesday, January 12, 2024, my friend, Allen Klosowski, unexpectedly passed away of natural causes in his home in Newport Beach, about a mile from my home. On Saturday, January 27, 2024, a warm cloudless Southern California day, my Sweet Susie and I joined a small group of friends and family at his gravesite to send him on his final journey. THREE QUARTERS OF A http://abubblingcauldron.blogspot.com/2024/01/saying-goodbye-to-friend.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Pot Stirrer)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907480.post-5211808726195705967Sun, 12 Nov 2023 23:20:00 +00002023-11-13T12:46:24.179-08:00Fairview ParkFairview Park Master PlanFairview Park Steering CommitteeINTRO AND OBJECTIVES - Last Wednesday, November 8, 2023, I attended a meeting at the Costa Mesa Senior Center to discuss the Fairview Park Master Plan.  Once again, the hosts optimistically anticipated a couple hundred attendees and, once again, we were disappointed as fewer than 60 people were in the room, and at least a third of those were City staffers or consultants.  http://abubblingcauldron.blogspot.com/2023/11/fairview-park-master-plan-meeting.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Pot Stirrer)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907480.post-8516859097711182567Tue, 07 Nov 2023 08:52:00 +00002023-11-07T01:13:40.123-08:00affordable housingEmergency Operations CenterFairview Developmental Center ZOOMING ALONG WITH THE FDCMonday night, November 6, 2023, Costa Mesa's consultants conducted the third meeting of this series, this time via Zoom, seeking resident input on the future of the Fairview Developmental Center (FDC).  The maximum number of participants in this event were 48, including 11 consultants plus Costa Mesa's Director of Economic and Development Service, Jennifer Le.http://abubblingcauldron.blogspot.com/2023/11/fairview-developmental-center-zoom.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Pot Stirrer)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907480.post-2282036690955319612Sun, 05 Nov 2023 18:44:00 +00002023-11-05T12:16:31.135-08:00affordable housingEmergency Operations CenterFairview Developmental CenterJay HumphreySandy GenisWendy LeeceI MISSED THE POINT!Good grief!  Late last night I finally posted my long, long, long screed about the meeting held Thursday night at the Costa Mesa Senior Center concerning the future of the Fairview Developmental Center (FDC) site. (HERE)  I blathered on and on and on about the consultant’s presentation, the small crowd (50), but completely neglected to talk about what those folks who http://abubblingcauldron.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-future-of-fdc-residents-concerns.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Pot Stirrer)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907480.post-4364873693775678026Sun, 05 Nov 2023 06:58:00 +00002023-11-05T12:49:19.014-08:00affordable housingEmergency Operations CenterFairview Developmental CenterTHE FIRST OF A SERIES OF MEETINGS ON THE FDCOn Thursday, November 2, 2023 I trekked across town from my far Eastside home to the Costa Mesa Senior Center for the first of what is to be a series of community meetings to discuss the future of the 112+ acre site of the Fairview Developmental Center (FDC) - near the center of Costa Mesa.CHANGING TREATMENT MEANS SURPLUS LAND This city-sponsored, http://abubblingcauldron.blogspot.com/2023/11/visioning-fairview-developmental-center.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Pot Stirrer)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907480.post-5777558731070983448Fri, 13 Oct 2023 22:21:00 +00002023-10-13T15:21:47.955-07:00Sent via email to: comments@oesregionsoutheoc.orgMs. Terry Ash, Senior Environmental Planner℅ Dudek                                                 &http://abubblingcauldron.blogspot.com/2023/10/my-correspondence-regarding-proposed.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Pot Stirrer)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907480.post-4450809590635044181Sat, 30 Sep 2023 05:14:00 +00002023-09-30T01:29:59.524-07:00Emergency Operations CenterFairview Developmental CenterJay HumphreyJohn StephensSandra GenisWendy LeeceSTATE EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER MEETING Last night, Thursday, September 28th, a meeting was held at the Anthony M. Toto Auditorium on the Fairview Developmental Center (FDC) site at which the consulting firm, DUDEK, solicited input from community members on the plan to carve out 15 acres from FDC site for an Emergency Operations Center to act as a secondary site to the State’s primary sitehttp://abubblingcauldron.blogspot.com/2023/09/fdc-emergency-operations-center-meeting.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Pot Stirrer)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36907480.post-6253861916738895316Thu, 14 Sep 2023 08:58:00 +00002023-09-14T19:26:47.162-07:00Bill LobdellEd SelichJournalismLana JohnsonNorberto SantanaTom JohnsonTony DoderoVoice of OCTHREE AMIGOSLast night I had the pleasure of attending a forum hosted by the activist group, Speak Up Newport, at the community room at Newport Beach City Hall.  The program consisted of a panel of experts on journalism, and local journalism in particular.  It included former Daily Pilot publisher and current publisher of StuNews Newport, TOM JOHNSON; former Los Angeles Times reporter, http://abubblingcauldron.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-future-of-journalism-by-those-who.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Pot Stirrer)0