Commentary
Although my job usually is to critique public policy in this state, there are actually many things to be thankful for in California in 2022. Some of them:
The weather. Just look to Buffalo buried in seven feet of snow. I grew up in Michigan where we periodically suffered such blizzards. I remember listening to the Mamas & the Papas’ “California Dreamin’” on the radio and dreamin’ of moving out to the Coast and frolicking in the sun and surf with the “California Girls.” I’ve been here now 35 years and don’t plan on leaving.
The Beach. Other areas have beaches. Michigan has thousands of miles of them, on the Great Lakes and smaller inland lakes. But when people talk about the Beach, capital B, they mean California’s magnificent coastline. I haven’t done it in more than a decade, but a drive up PCH along the Coast to Monterey is the best in the world. And oh, those sunsets….