Connecting California
Our eyes met on a Saturday evening in Los Angeles. I wanted to go home. He wanted to take me there.
Could we find our way to each other in this …
Essay
The school year is under way and the kids, we are told, are not all right.
America’s families are suffering through what a recent front-page story in the New York Times …
Where I Go
Pickleball—an addictive mashup of tennis, badminton, and ping pong—is seemingly everywhere these days, and played by seemingly everyone.
There are now a whopping 4.8 million players in the U.S. (a number …
Essay
It took until the cusp of middle age—the ripe age of 39—for me to write what would become my first book.
The spark for this new stage of my life was …
Connecting California
Question: What would Californians have lost if we had canceled the election that concludes November 8?
Answer: Nothing. We might even be better off.
Our fall elections have become unnecessary at best, …
The Takeaway
“Do we even need a city council?” That was the provocative title question posed at last night’s Zócalo/KCRW event at the Herald Examiner Building in downtown Los Angeles.
To get at …
