LA summers, summers in the Valley, were just as hot when I was a kid, but we didn’t seem to notice. We’d be running around camp all day in triple-digit weather, and somehow, incredibly, not suffering heatstroke. It must have been all those popsicles and swimming. At home, we never …
For fifteen years, I have worked as a writer, and later, a photographer and an editor as well. I love editing, be it book or magazine or for an individual client. Not just the research and working with writers and the robin’s egg blue cover of the latest CMOS, but …
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established. - Aristotle A mob’s always made up of people, no matter what. Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but he was still a man.- Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird Vancouver has …
It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves. - François Duc de La Rochefoucauld It was a Sunday morning, and for the first time I heard what would become the familiar high-pitched squeal of dial-up as it came through my computer. I was fifteen. When the …
Personal compliments, however, are proper only from a close friend… it is bad taste for a young woman to say to another “What a handsome dress you have on!” and worst of all to add “Where did you get it?” The young girl’s particular friends are, of course, apt to …
Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth. - Madeleine L’Engle The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to …
In the last week, I joined in celebrating the 90th birthday of a man who has lived a truly remarkable life. I also learned, via twitter , of Alice Pyne, a fifteen year old girl in England with terminal cancer who created a blog to post her bucket list, which …