The B.M. (big move)
Readers (hi Mom!): you may wonder why I’ve not written – again – in almost a year. It was a LONG time between the last post and the second to last post as well. So, I’ve had another one of those years. Last year it was the double-room-parent conundrum at my children’s two school. (That ...
Willow Witt Ranch
What does it say about life in Los Angeles that staying in a bare bones, one room cabin in Oregon with my entire family (all five of us) while we all suffered from a stomach virus – was SO RELAXING compared to my life this past year in the comfort of my own home! For ...
No longer a brunch wasteland
It’s been much too long since I’ve been able to write, but I need to dance a little jig about the new bakery/brunch place that has opened on Wilshire Boulevard near 10th Street. Huckleberry! I sing your praises. Anything halfway decent in Santa Monica is completely overrun, and this place does suffer from lack of ...
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Hi again. I’ve been on a long sojourn and will be writing again soon. I wish I could report that loads of lucrative paid writing gigs have kept me busy. But that’s not the case. Lack of childcare, too much pet care, and lots of related subjects not worth going into yet have kept me ...
Round we go
Posting anything has been a challenge lately. We recently let go of our babysitter, and my husband has been unable to drive because of a chronic health issue. So I’m the driver-in-chief of our two children to their two different schools and have taken on a lot of new household responsibilities. Needless to say, my ...
RIP Michael Jackson and Farah Fawcett
Michael Jackson and Farah Fawcett both died within 5 miles of each other yesterday – Thursday, June 25, 2009 – in West Los Angeles. The only other time that I can remember two such celebrities dying within such a short period of time was in late August, 1997, when both Mother Teresa (in India) and ...
Reddi Chick
A ritual I observe at the beginning of most weeks is a Monday morning stop at Reddi Chick at the Brentwood Country Mart. Lunch is not the first thing on my mind at 10 a.m. But since I’ve started doing all my grocery shopping on Monday mornings (Westside grocery stores are blessedly free of the ...
The recession has me in stitches
It’s awful and alarming what’s happening all around in the wake of the recession. My favorite Santa Monica restaurant, Violet, closed it’s doors in the last several months. The place was notable for its affordable take on the tapas/small plates craze in American fine dining and for its wonderful punk rock aesthetic. The owner was ...
No license plate, no problem
I’ve been spending a lot of hours on the streets of West Los Angeles lately and noticing that lots of cars are without license plates. One car at my children’s school has been sporting the dealer-issued ad-in-lieu of license plate for around a year. The other day, driving north on Sepulveda, a sporty black Volvo ...
The Hybrid
I have had my trusty VW Passat V6 wagon for several years. I’m still proud of it. It’s an exponentially better ride than most of the other cars I’ve driven. My mother’s ’73 Plymouth Valiant comes to mind. The last time I saw that car was on a “Push Pull and Drag” TV ad in ...
