Safe
When I think about the word SAFE I first think about baseball, with a player sliding into one of the bases and an umpire in a striped uniform spreading his arms wide and yelling, “SAFE”. But the word...
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My Sister is a Rock Star
My sister lives in North Dakota. She teaches high school and has coached the girl’s volleyball team there for 20 years. I know that every year her team makes it to the state finals and that she often...
View ArticleShopping in the Season of Joy
I work as a fashion designer. So, for better or worse, shopping the stores is part of my job. A few weeks ago I spent a day at South Coast Plaza, the biggest, most prestigious shopping mall in Orange...
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Waiting for the SUN
It’s not what it sounds like. I do not live at the North Pole. I live in Southern California where I see the sun almost each and every day. I waited almost 9 months for a large gong named after the...
View Article“Someone Like You”
When I lived in San Francisco one of my restaurant friends vehemently loved Van Morrison. We’d go to her house after work and open bottles of wine and increasingly become less and less intelligible as...
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Pesto 101
There was a boy in college who decided that he was going to date me. This was long before cell phones so his plan of approach was to show up at my apartment occasionally to charm me. I was generally...
View ArticleLessons from Pain
I’ve always prided myself on my ridiculously high pain threshold. I broke my ankle in sixth grade gym class and walked home afterwards. A couple of years ago I broke my little toe just before I left...
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Lover’s Lobster for Two
I worked in a beautiful restaurant in Maui in my late twenties. It was one of the most expensive restaurants on the island but we were full every night because the chef was a genius. I’m not at all...
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Big Tipper
I guess you could call me a big tipper. A few months ago I tipped a waitress in the desert near Joshua Tree, CA a hundred-dollar bill on a twenty-five dollar tab. Three years ago I attended the World...
View ArticleJealousy vs. Inspiration
Last week I went to a book panel discussion in Santa Monica. One of my writing teachers was the moderator for the event and I was intrigued enough to make the long drive across the whole of Los Angeles...
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Christmas on a Fire Truck
In the spirit of the holidays, here’s a post from the archives- For the last five years or so my department at work has come together at Christmas to support families in a small trailer park by our...
View ArticleMe Too
Me too. Not once, not twice, not dozens of times. Thousands of times. If you haven’t been on social media in a few days, there is a flurry of women coming forward with the words “Me too.” The call to...
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