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I used to love Alanis Morisette back in the days of my adolescent angst. She would scream and wail about scratching her nails down someone else’s back in the hope that her ex would feel it. She [...]

When I sit in LA traffic, which occupies a larger percentage of my life than I would choose of my own volition, I sometimes feel that pull right in the center of my gut. It’s the part of me that [...]

Last week my daughter broke her wrist. Except not really. She actually broke her wrist six weeks ago colliding with her 6’2” tree of a middle blocker. The bad news is that we only found out she [...]

I read something today that made me laugh. Ducks walk out of a lake, flap their wings and fly off. Good for you, duck. I wonder if you have adrenal glands. If so maybe instead of “shaking things [...]

When I moved to California 20 years ago, I was appalled by the sudden increase in the amount of waiting required every day. Everything was so crowded here compared to my small Georgia town and my [...]

If I had had the energy to stop and take a picture you would have seen what I saw. A beautiful flat bike path meandering through the surrounding hills. Yucca plants leaping joyously from the [...]

I don’t know if that dog realized that it was never in a million years going to catch one of those sand pipers, but I do know that it seemed more alive in the pursuit.