So after years of not really trying to lose weight — and as a result gaining weight — I’ve turned things around. Slowly. But first, a brief weight timeline, from the time of my July 2013 graduation from Rio Hondo College Police Academy — coinciding with the lowest I’ve weighed in my adult life: 198 …
Originally published at Blogging.la, November 13, 2007. Reprinted on this eve of the 80th Anniversary of Executive Order No. 9066. Coincidental to Jason Burns’ November 9 post in which he referenced Manzanar in response to the disconcerting news of LAPD plans to target map Muslim enclaves in the city, two days later (returning from Death …
So. I’ve found a new route to work. It’s lovely. From my house in Silver Lake to the office in Jefferson Park, the only major street I traverse is Adams Boulevard and it, having been recently put on a serious road diet, now sports a fantastic new buffered bike lane. For those of you who …
We have seen all manner of critter in the course of our years here in Silver Lake a half-block south of Sunset Boulevard: from expected dogs and cats, the latter of which some tame and some feral, to a veritable somewhat unexpected parade of wild things. Be it live or captured on camera in the …
Can’t tell you why exactly, but yesterday I finally got tired of procrastinating and went into our basement to dive deep in the archives in search of something I was hoping was not long-lost but was moderately sure was. That something was a keepsake box of mine full of momentos from my youth, one that …
Since I’m on my second already I am now going to tell you why Budweiser has been my favorite beer since before I could legally buy it, and why it will be my favorite for the rest of my days. Long story short: Because of the first time I drank it. At 17. Short story …
I don’t do much in the #ThrowbackThursday Department either here or certainly not on social media (which I find myself increasingly divorcing from) because most of the time when I remember I want to it’s #ForgotFriday. However, with my deep archive dive earlier this week finding an old personal stationery logo (circa 1988) and a …