Students from the Santa Maria Valley participated in the author event at Abel Maldonado Community Youth Center. (Courtesy ...

Learning from Silence,” a memoir about losing his family's Santa Barbara home and everything he owned in a 1990 wildfire.

The last time you went riding, the weather was perfect. Did you notice that? Or were you thinking about something, some niggling issue, a thorny problem that needed to be solved from the back of a ...

Iyer's story resonated with Jeremy Hunter ... In 1990, Iyer, then 33, an author and columnist for Time magazine, grabbed his mother's aging cat and his latest manuscript, jumped in his car ...

Iyer’s story resonated with Jeremy Hunter ... In 1990, Iyer, then 33, an author and columnist for Time magazine, grabbed his mother’s aging cat and his latest manuscript, jumped in his ...

Author's Story of Coping After a Wildfire Resonates With Community Affected by Latest LA-Area Fires PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — On a quiet summer evening in June 1990, Pico Iyer sat in his family ...