by Julie Ferro January 14, 8:30 AM. Tribhuvan International Airport, Nepal. This airport is the perfect setting for a living or waking nightmare. It looks like a bus depot in a deserted, depressed, outpost—a place you might find yourself stranded in a dream. My sister, Virginia, and I are flying home to Los Angeles after…
This film is hitting the West Coast hard and fast – just like the skaters it profiles. Wassup Rockers, directed by Larry Clark, is a jarring look at inner city life and the innocents that grow and play amongst the violence and general craziness of South Central Los Angeles. I did flinch at the punk…
by Esperanza Elena Rodriguez Searching for Self on I-5 This was all new to me: being alone, without a husband. I was 38 years old and what I thought would last forever did not. I found myself single and felt as though I had no identity of my very own. For the past twenty years,…
Her sweet, babbling voice calls me in the morning. I long for her chill on my neck and her wet kisses on my lips. The lovely Tuolumne whispers to me memories of stargazing and river rafting. Laurence came into my life at the Fillmore Jazz Festival, it was a random encounter between two people who…
Stacey Champion is a champion of air quality. She likes her green eggs and ham with a green approach to building and construction. As the very Diva owner of Champion Indoor Environmental Services, LLC, www.championindoors.com, Ms. Champion is a Certified Indoor Environmentalist (CIE). That’s right- we’re always so concerned about the air outside that we…
by Julie Raizes Palm Desert is a perfect place to go solo—it’s so clean, so safe, and so fun! Girls, let me begin with this advice: it doesn’t matter what age you are, or your marital status. It doesn’t matter if you are a girly-girl who loves spas and shopping, an athletic type, or a…
by Genice Jacobs In 2004, Genice Jacobs traveled halfway around the world to Almaty, Kazakhstan to adopt her daughter Jiana. She kept a blog to record her journey, both to Central Asia and to motherhood. Saturday, November 13, 2004 The Beginning: Thinking, Planning, and Worrying It’s been a long, windy, and fortunately not-too-bumpy road since…