My friend posted this video to facebook with the status “watch the video. then you will understand why it’s worth the arsons, winds and decapitations…” She’s speaking, of course, of Hollywood, and I agree completely. Beneath the dust created by arson fires and then kicked …
I hated every second of it, the yoga class I took this morning at the Hollywood YMCA. It was only my second of the entire year, and the last one, nearly eight months ago, was all rest and relaxation. The instructor of this morning’s class, …
The air is different here. The leaves on the deciduous trees have changed color, and the temperatures are seasonably cool. Still, though, it’s different. Sixty-two degrees comes with a scent of warmth, comforting rays upon the face, instead of the nibbling chill of East Coast …
“They jumped. I saw them jump, and fall, all that way. They jumped,” the woman next to me said, her eyes frozen in stare, her face stone cold. All I could do was listen, as we rode up the island on the 1 train. She …
I have a hard time going to bed. I have a hard time getting up. It is 11:56 pm. My husband and I are people of routine, generally speaking, and our bedtime is 11:00pm. At that time this evening, we were mixing cocktails while enwrapped …
I read nearly anything, but especially Hermann Melville, Joan Didion, E.B. White or Virginia Woolf, and I am urgently compelled to be a writer.What if being a writer is my true identity, and all this time I’ve just been distracting myself from myself? (Then, write …
I used to be intimidated by alcohol. I didn’t know what to do with it but pour it into half a glass of orange juice or Coca Cola, neither of which I like very much. In recent years, though, I’ve begun to understand it. There …
I’m not a cynic, but Valentine’s Day does not particularly excite me. The whole thing feels like a commercial ploy. I love the idea of showering my husband with love, but why on February 14, why with stuffed animals or big, red, heart-shaped boxes of …
Rainy season is among us, and it’s more insistent than in recent years. Two weeks now, but tomorrow finally looks to be the last of it. Rain in California is different than rain elsewhere. It can be dangerous. Just a few inches, and news outlets …