<![CDATA[Santa Barbara Current : Can We Talk?]]>https://www.sbcurrent.com/s/can-we-talkhttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gkEc!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb12566a2-32fd-437b-83c9-577458a3abd2_132x132.pngSanta Barbara Current : Can We Talk?https://www.sbcurrent.com/s/can-we-talkSubstackWed, 22 Apr 2026 02:07:05 GMT<![CDATA[The National Mood Has Changed]]>https://www.sbcurrent.com/p/the-national-mood-has-changedhttps://www.sbcurrent.com/p/the-national-mood-has-changedMon, 16 Dec 2024 14:31:07 GMT

There’s a sense of exuberance and optimism in the air. Have you noticed it too?

Students are goading their Woke teachers by wearing MAGA hats. NFL players and sorority co-eds are doing the Trump Dance. We might — horrors! — be in for four years of mostly good feelings. It’s like an uplifting scene in one of those Ron Howard movies we all loved in the 198…

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]]><![CDATA[Home Cooking]]>https://www.sbcurrent.com/p/home-cookinghttps://www.sbcurrent.com/p/home-cookingSat, 07 Dec 2024 14:30:49 GMT

(Fair warning: this is not a political piece. Well, not overtly political, anyway. Hmmm…. Now that I think of it, it is a political piece, just not in the usual way.)

Civilization Begins Over a Fire

I believe one of the cornerstones of civilization is home cooking. And not just for how it can feed your family, but how you can use it to bring your friends,…

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]]><![CDATA[Getting Hooked]]>https://www.sbcurrent.com/p/getting-hookedhttps://www.sbcurrent.com/p/getting-hookedWed, 20 Nov 2024 15:34:30 GMT

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Polly’s Pastalaya. Photo by Polly Frost

(Ms. Frost is a regular contributor to SBCurrent’s comments section. You should know that Polly grew up in Santa Barbara, went to San Marcos High School, Santa Barbara City College, and UCSB before heading to New York City to be a freelance writer. Her humor, fiction, criticism, and interviews, have been published…

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