A Century in LA Is Like an Eon Anywhere Else

  We’re used to the commuter life here in LA and it’s hard to imagine a life without cars.  But believe it or not, we do have a public transportation system. When gasoline hit over $4 a gallon, some of us learned to carpool and even take the bus or metro rail (http://www.metro.net/riding_metro/maps/default.htm).  In tiny Pasadena, we have the Gold …

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My City of Angels

  A sweet email from a Scottish reader reminds me what a great photographic opportunity I have right here in Los Angeles.  So while I anticipate my next trip to NY to visit my newest niece, I’ll just post pictures of my hometown as I find it here and there for a while.  The photos in today’s entry were taken appropriately enough …

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I heart LA

LA is basically a sprawling parking lot that we Angelenos love to complain about. Traffic, earthquakes, smog, and a million other reasons. But every time my plane hovers over LAX, no matter how great the trip had just been, I feel revived. Of course as soon as I’m in my car trying to get out of the airport, the love hate relationship I have with …