Leaving Los Angeles
This week we returned from our annual trip to see our families “back East” (as people in California call anything to the east of Phoenix). For the first time in 14 years in Los Angeles, I was not that thrilled about arriving in my adopted home. Maybe it’s the still out-of-control real estate, the nasty […]
Knick-knacks will be the death of me
I just droppped off a whole station wagon’s backside full of goods at the Council for Jewish Women Thrift Shop in West Los Angeles. It’s tough for me to part with my things, even if they make me miserable. This is something I have inherited from two generations of packrat women before me (my mother […]
Where has all the leisure gone?
One of the reasons I started this journal was that summers of my childhood and youth were always filled with books, sleeping late, just enough romance, aimless bike rides in deserted parks, and hours that stretched into weeks of delicious ennui. It was the truest form of down time I have ever had and will […]
End of July
It’s July 28, and the sounds of dueling construction projects in my neighborhood have finally quieted. A few minutes ago I thought the afternoon was off to a bad start because the lunch truck for the condominium project next door pulled up and played a short, loud rendition of the Mexican Hat Dance. Two of […]
