In Part I, May, 2017, I revisited Northern California’s food scene circa the 1970s and ’80s, while contemplating our current irksome eating habits. Restaurant dining had come to feel  like… Continue reading »

While I get ready to teach my Spring UCLA Extension Writers’ Program Class Finding Your Voice, I offer you this holiday piece from last Fall’s Edible Ojai/Ventura. Enjoy!   OR:… Continue reading »

         While working on the audio version of my novel Entertaining Disasters, getting ready for my summer class, Finding Your Voice, at UCLA Extension’s Writers’ Program, and… Continue reading »

            The Broad blockbuster Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors closed January 1st. Did anyone notice? No one I knew who wanted a ticket, could get one…. Continue reading »

Hey, I’m busy, I just ran a 5K and marched in a Fourth of July Parade, with my dog, and my husband, and now I’ve got a class to teach… Continue reading »

It’s been a lovely spring after a great wet winter, turning the entire state into a bouncing floral bouquet. We drove through the Gold Country in March and were astonished… Continue reading »

  What is eating us? By that I mean what is going on with food in restaurants, markets, homes, our mouths, these days? Why has fine restaurant dining become such… Continue reading »

I know a reprise of one of my darkly humorous fruitcake pieces might be more appropriate this time of year, but we’ve just been plunged into a future that is… Continue reading »

It’s a glorious day on PCH in Malibu when I spy a senior couple standing roadside, facing heavy traffic, the blue Pacific to their backs, smiling into their cell phone–or… Continue reading »

I know, you’ve never heard of The Sherman Oaks Review of Books (aka SORB). Nobody has, except the Rancho Cucamonga Review of Books, from which it split off a while… Continue reading »