When Technology Fails

I’ve been excited to reveal the location of my mini trip this week as it unfolds in real time, but due to a technological hiccup, I am unable to upload pictures to the blog right now. Suffice it to say I will be keeping copious notes on my Blackberry and taking tons of photos and then come back here in …

Human Science Project

   I’ve been blogging recently about my niece A in NYC. Today I’ll blog about my 15-months-old niece M who lives here in the LA area because I’m all about equal time. We’re all spread around this country (well, around the world) so this blog is actually a nifty tool for the rest of my family to check in on the …

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Memorial Day

     Remember when I wrote that the stealth bomber flies over my house for the Rose Parade each January 1st?       This year I wasn’t fast enough to film it, but today, for Memorial Day,      I catch something just as cool flying over head: vintage war planes.      So for all the mudslide and fire and …

Clammy Aftertaste

     I always know when I’m sick because my ears pop and then I get strange cravings in spite of a missing appetite.  So that explains my lapse in blogging. Luckily I come around to feeling human again just in time for a fun lunch at Pizzeria Mozza (http://www.mozza-la.com/ ) at the corner of Highland and Melrose.  This is what …

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Downtown Girl

  A couple of years I got to spend a week in NYC completely unplugged. No business meetings, no family obligations.  Zero agenda. It was glorious. A week of roaming the island at leisure was one of my most memorable trips anywhere. I’d wake up and decide on an Uptown day for visiting Museum Mile and strolling through the posh …