Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
A bustling coffee house near my brand new granddaughter’s apartment bears my name. It’s called Lalaland and it serves some decadent drinks. Naturally, I popped in. On a busy Saturday morning where the wait time for a takeout iced latte hovered around 45 minutes, no one was particularly interested in my LaLa origin story. I [...]
If you need me this weekend, I’ll be in LA with my girls. Ahhhh! For various reasons I have spent the past year surrounded by boys and, for the most part, it has been a blast. I love a good muddy ravine tramp and I don’t mind shagging grounders in the rain. I’ve learned to [...]
Highway 10 winds through Los Angeles like a giant metaphor, full of talented people driving forward, eager to arrive, but occasionally, communally stuck. Life follows the flow of traffic there, exhilaratingly swift and easy by turns, then excruciatingly slow and, once in a while, stopped cold. “You are 4.7 miles and 45 minutes from your [...]