Growing up I didn’t care much for fairy tales. I didn’t see how those stories were really relevant to my day-to-day life in the South Bronx. Sure, I wanted to get out of the burned down neighborhood but I didn’t see that living in a remote […]
This is my tenth month in Los Angeles and I have been trying to make the most of my time here. I like it better than San Francisco; namely because the weather is so much better. San Francisco was always so dreary wrapped up in fog. I […]
I have a random bit for today. Just this past week, someone was talking about how much they hated San Francisco. Having lived in the Bay Area three times and having left it three times, I get what there is to not like about San Francisco. Gentrification is […]
As a New Yorker, I have been exposed to food trucks a long time ago. We have had everything in trucks. According to some internet historians, New York City started having food trucks way back in 1691. Well, they were really push carts. But you get the […]
Right now I’m a tad bit depressed because I do not get to experience the autumnal beauty of the East Coast. Not that being in LA’s constant sunny weather is a bad thing. However, as someone who has wanderlust, autumn is the perfect symbol of that motivation. Autumn […]
Ever since I was a little girl, I was told that I was to not wear white after labor day. That made no sense to me as I really could not differentiate between memorial day, labor day, veterans and so forth. Eventually, I came to understand […]
My mother believed in the evil eye. She was deathly scared of the evil eye. She believed people could wish you evil and you could fall under subsequent continuous bad luck. There was a bit of time where she had really good luck, winning radio contest […]
Decades ago my mom would go to Coney Island with her family. They would just go to the beach and hang out. They wouldn’t go on any rides as my mom would get sick on them. They wouldn’t go into the water as she didn’t know […]
I still remember vividly where I was and what time it was when I saw what was occurring in my beloved hometown of New York City. To me it is unbelievable that it has been fifteen years since that day of September 11. As life would have it, […]
Every week or two I get asked by someone if I am liking my experience thus far in Los Angeles. I’ve been here now almost 9 months. I could have given birth in this amount of time. Nine months is a big psychological marker. Yet, I usually […]
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