Tim Leary

2 days ago | villagenews.com | Tim Leary

| Last updated Jun 26, 2025 4:10pmVillage News /Lisa Boonstra photos A bunch of us locals drifted back to Vietnam – the crucible of the baby boomer generation – the other day. The sojourn left us much to ponder. In a roundabout way, I was tapped to moderate a round table discussion at Vista's Gloria McClellan Senior Center. The talk titled: "Vietnam, a Nation at the Crossroads of History" was attended by about 50 people and followed by live music and a Vietnam-themed lunch.

1 week ago | villagenews.com | Tim Leary

A familiar face, author Caitlin Rother, has finally finished penning her true tale about us. It is a disturbing saga about disappearances, death and doubt. Rother, an award-winning writer and a New York Times best-selling author, is back among us in print and in person. Her "Down to the Bone – A Missing Family's Murder and the Elusive Quest for Justice" has arrived at bookstores 15 years after the local McStay family vanished right before our eyes. It goes on sale June 24.

1 month ago | villagenews.com | Tim Leary

| Last updated May 22, 2025 11:58pmVillage News/Lisa Boonstra photos I am now thrilled to report, sweet reader, that we two Fallbrook Tim O'Leary's – the Tall and the Small – have finally connected. It is the best time of our lives. We're both active and engaged in a lovely, little town that time forgot. Yet it is the worst of times for the vehicle of our connection – a struggling weekly newspaper. Ours is an age of wisdom and of folly, an era of belief and of uncertainty.

2 months ago | villagenews.com | Tim Leary

A sleepy landmark that anchors a slice of south Fallbrook has been jolted out of its slumber. The past has always pulled at me. For me, the past is a blur of beauty, curiosity, history and humanity. This odd historic property came to my attention shortly after I moved to Fallbrook in 2002. I would ponder the aging place whenever I drove by it while heading to or from our friendly village. The quirky complex of wooden, one-story buildings hugs a rectangular stretch of South Mission Road.

Feb 27, 2025 | villagenews.com | Tim Leary

Fallbrook has long reminded me of "Fractured Fairy Tales." Our town is a bucolic backdrop of colorful characters and struggling social service providers comically set adrift in today's modern world. The popular television cartoon, which ran from 1959 to 1964, was a mainstay of my childhood. Those snippets of chaos and color taught me that life has its twists, turns and tangles. Some of our Fallbrook fractures are real. One of our significant schisms may soon heal.