We went to Los Angeles last week for Spring Break. It made me homesick. The canopies of trees over the streets, green everywhere, the flowers, the sweet smell of jasmine and earthy scent of rich soil, the birds singing in the trees, the gentle rustling of wind in the leaves at night. The beach, the…
Category Archives: Life in Los Angeles
What Makes You Happy?
I haven’t been around much the last few weeks. I’m trying to organize everything for our upcoming move. It’s not very interesting. It’s a huge time-suck and doing it makes me feel grumpy. Not happy. It does make me happy, however, to declutter, freecycle and sell. This has made me vow to never again accumulate…
Oh, the places life takes us…
Last week I wrote a six word post, Las Vegas Awaits. The six words were: Thirty-two days. Las Vegas Awaits. Almost everyone who read it thought I was anticipating a fun vacation to Vegas. Understandably. I realize it did come across that way. But we’re not going to vacation in Vegas. We’re moving to Vegas. To…
Smoky
It’s Saturday afternoon and I’m lying out by my apartment complex pool with a stack of unread scripts next to me. I’m wearing my hot pink bikini. I’m alone. The base beat and echoes of chatter drift down from The Mondrian Hotel pool above me. With it comes the lingering odor of cigarette smoke. I…
The Tragedy of King Lear
I recently attended a dinner party and told the following story. The hosts encouraged me to blog about it. I hesitated. Even as I hit the publish button I hesitate. As is with so much of life, in retrospect the story is comedic. A Comedy of Errors. At the time it wasn’t comedic at all….
Helmet On, Renovations Under Way
Over the last few months I got our house ready to sell, which in Los Angeles seems to mean you have to make your house look like something out of House Beautiful. Not an easy feat with two messy kids, two cats, way too much stuff, a lot of broken furniture, and a limited budget. Once…
Raining in Los Angeles
I love it when it rains in Los Angeles. And there’s a lot of rain here in the winter months. Rain makes the top of the news in LA. This was very funny to me when I first moved out here from snow country. But after twenty years in California I get it. Rain here…
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These are my stories about surviving Hollywood, parenting two girls, and relocating to Las Vegas from Los Angeles, all while consuming a lot of chocolate. -
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