Proposition to end the madness in California

Posted by on Nov 13, 2008 in Los Angeles, Politics | No Comments

I didn’t get fired up about voting no on proposition 8 in California, and I regret it.  I took for granted how well organized the religious right is and how well smear tactics have worked, and I assumed that Prop 8 would not pass.  It did pass, and now our court systems will be bogged […]

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Veterans Days 2008 and beyond

Posted by on Nov 11, 2008 in Los Angeles, Personal, Politics | No Comments

This week our family is observing Veterans day twice – both Monday and Tuesday.  We do have a veteran of World War II in our family, but that wasn’t our reason for taking off forty percent of our work week for the holiday.  My son’s preschool is off on Tuesday, and my daughter’s elementary school […]

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Politics is the new black

Posted by on Nov 8, 2008 in Los Angeles, Media, Politics | No Comments

It can’t be just my imagination or the circles I travel in.  I think that the 2008 election has actually made politics cool again.  Maybe politics was never cool, or only in the 1960s.  The presidential candidates were more than just “historic” – they made the election worth watching.  We followed their stories and felt […]

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Diversity and bumper stickers

Posted by on Nov 5, 2008 in Los Angeles, Politics | No Comments

The other night on MSNBC Keith Olbermann (interviewing Frank Rich) made a comment about the lack of diversity at televised McCain-Palin rallies.  Other than the few outspoken African American Republicans who appear at rallies or who make their living as a pundit on political shows, the Republican candidates are in a sea of white faces. […]

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Library card

Posted by on Nov 1, 2008 in Los Angeles, Personal | No Comments

Every day when I come to the intersection right before my daughter’s elementary school, I see it.  This particular branch of the Los Angeles Public Library has been tempting me ever since I started going next door to the sandy, sunny park next door with my children.  Today I had half an hour to spend […]

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I am not my bumper sticker

Posted by on Oct 28, 2008 in Los Angeles, Personal, Politics | No Comments

My car displays two bumper stickers, one plain blue one showing my support for the Obama-Biden ticket and the other the iconic “Hope” image of Obama’s face in red, white, and blue.  I had hoped to find one that said “Progress” because I’ve always found “hope” to be either hokey or just too heart-on-the-sleeve to […]

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Leaving Los Angeles

Posted by on Sep 1, 2008 in Los Angeles, Personal | No Comments

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 […]

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