No one likes to be wrong. I think it’s something we can all agree on. Yet I am always surprised to see how unable some people are to admit a mistake. I don’t always have to be right, but I want to do what is right (but we all want …
Growing up in LA, we had great public libraries, but I imagine some had librarians who were a bit more excited about their work than mine. In my memory, inquiries more akin to talking to Nick Burns, the computer guy Jimmy Fallon played on SNL, than someone who was eager …
It’s a grasshopper..because I didn’t have a photo I’d taken of crickets. Yes, it has been quiet here. Sometimes the freelance juggle is a bit more jiggly than others times. This is one of those times. I love that I have a career that’s multi-hyphenated. The downside is that sometimes …
I’m an inspiration board kind of girl. The thought of covering an entire wall in cork has crossed my mind more than once. Pinterest tidily holds all that inspires me in the ether, where it doesn’t take up wall space. Yet Pinterest concerns me. Because there are way too many …
So, remember last week when I had pleurisy? Well, after a week of feeling not so hot, I just didn’t think it was of the pleurisy variety. I’ve never been someone who reads a list of symptoms and thinks I’m dying, but as I read more on pleurisy I became …
They don’t teach cursive anymore. The time I first heard that, my heart sank. I didn’t believe my young cousin - maybe she was wrong? Perhaps the LAUSD and the Santa Monica/Malibu school districts were different. No such luck. Globalization was putting an end to cursive, which was fine and …
If my life wasn’t funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable. – Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking I got an email from one of my best friends last year after she saw Carrie Fisher’s one-woman show, Wishful Drinking. I’d yet to see it. She told me I had …
It’s true that when you live in Los Angeles, you can be a bit blasé about earthquakes. I mean, we’re on a first name basis with our seismologists, Drs. Kate and Lucy. When a tremor happens, we immediately start shouting out numbers to as to what we think the quake …