I can feel summer coming. As much as I kid about Los Angeles having just two seasons: warm and warmer, there is a real shift that happens this time of year. I begin to feel it as I walk outside with the dogs in the early evening, looking at the …
The mardi gras beads look like pearls, no? It’s a fancy 5K.
Be the change you wish to see. (I grew up hearing that a lot.) Get involved in what you believe in. (And hearing that.) Make your voice heard. (That, too.) But my family didn’t just talk the talk, the walked it, too. Sometimes literally, like just last weekend for the …
I’m editing photos from the Autism Speaks 5K today in Pasadena. Great day with family and friends - but really, LA, 85+ temps in April? Slow down summer…what’s the rush? xo a.
Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring. - Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s It’s still eighty-something degrees outside and yet I’m wading in projects for a winter wonderland. The holidays are all around me. I’m writing about it on assignment, working on holiday …
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 …
Forget that whole Rapture business. Or even the 2012 Prophecy. People, mark your calendars for the weekend of July 16, 2011, and get as far away from Los Angeles as humanly possible. Even the mayor is recommending it. The Mayor. Telling us to get out of town. Be prepared. In …