There is nothing more awesome than a beautiful, interesting, mysterious door on your travels. What lies beyond? Doors also tell you a lot about the people around you? You can note who tends to hold the door open and who rushes through without even a “thank you.” […]
I have never really liked flying despite having a job that required me to travel for ten years. One could argue I was a bit of a masochist. I not only hated flying, I feared it. I hate the takeoff most of all. The first 10 minutes […]
I am a New Yorker in Los Angeles. We are a growing group out here. Perhaps we got tired of the various snowmageddons we have been through the last few years. Perhaps we think we can make it on Hollywood since we made it in new York and […]
One of the things I love most about travel is architecture. Now, I understand that sounds rather abstract. I love trying to understand how building structure mirrors the values of the particular society in which they are located. Many years ago, along with art history lasses, I took […]
She picked the seat closest to the window after much thought. It was empty so she could pick what she wanted and the decision was too much for her. She stared into nothingness. She was giving her brain a break. She needed that. Then he came […]
I am jubilant. I am ecstatic. I am jumping for joy. After five months of commuting every other weekend between San Francisco and Los Angeles, I will be finally packing up my San Francisco place and moving down permanently to Los Angeles. Ok. Let me backtrack just […]
I feel like I must utter the phrase “what’s this” over 100 times a day. First off, I have to say that quite often to my son. He was recently very eager to show me a drawing he had made. I looked at it and then had […]
I am sitting in the so-called quiet zone in the American Airlines lounge. I don’t sit there because I have a dire need for quiet. I can readily work with a ton of noise around me. As a matter of fact when I am working from home, […]
Back in 1981, a little known group (ha!) named Duran Duran released a song called Planet Earth. I have liked that song despite it not being one of the more widely listened and downloaded Duran Duran songs. “look now, look all around, there’s no sign of life voices, […]
Last week before I headed out to the airport, I spent three hours in the morning cleaning up my apartment. At one point I stopped shaking my head at myself wondering why I was taking so much time to clean an apartment that would be empty […]
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