Impatience Speed Trap
I had a boyfriend once whose mother, when she was charmed by his bad behavior, would roll her eyes and tell me how patient I was. But he was not my boyfriend for very long, [...]
How do You Find Patience When you Don’t Love Escorting?
First, you have to be interested enough to spend the time. This is true if any endeavor that pays back joy for discipline: drawing, playing guitar, taking pictures, dancing, singing, tennis, gardening. It has to [...]
Chocolate: More Than a Sweet Nothing?
Chocolate is my kryptonite…well, I have to stop thinking about it as kryptonite. No one is about to give me license to carry a feed bag of M&Ms around my neck, but I’ve read lately [...]
What is Intelligence?
Academics have for over 100 years measured intelligence using IQ tests, but the Flynn Effect they’ve found doesn’t necessarily mean we are more intelligent than our grandparents. We may just be better at taking tests. [...]
The Joy of Being Rotten
Just got dumped? Here are some ideas —Send a stripper-gram to their next board meeting —Order the most expensive bottle of champagne and meal at the last dinner you have together —Fill their shampoo bottle [...]
Old School is the Real Big Deal
There was a time not so long ago when the moviegoing experience was a big deal. It was an event. Viewers entered ornate, cavernous movie palaces and watched, along with an audience of thousands, the [...]
No Thanks, Private Schools
In the upper-middle-class California suburban family of my youth, we applied to the universities we could afford, and went to the best one that sent an acceptance letter. It would never have occurred to me [...]
Snake Bitten
I found myself thinking about regret as I sat down to write this week. There are two sides to our thought process: logic and emotion. Some people use one more than the other but most [...]
I Love, Therefore I Am
Assuming that a scientific theory of everything could predict all, including when and how such a theory would be discovered, as well as when and how you’d be reading my website, one could argue that [...]
About Face
Los Angeles was and is a nonstop kaleidoscope of faces. I walk down Ocean and marvel at the elderly lady with bright orange hair and matching flame lipstick. After encountering this walking inferno, I contemplated [...]
I’ll Have a Salad
Something interesting happened here while I was was working late to put the finishing touches on some projects. As is often the case when I’m on deadline, I marked up a delivery menu with my [...]
DILF
From images of L’Enfant to the single dad coaching his child’s soccer team, there is something alluring about father and child, or what I like to fairly re-coin the DILF. That stands for Dad in [...]
