miscellaneous

Inspired by a neighbor, I decided to walk the four-ish miles to the office yesterday. Four miles isn’t as far as you’d think – it took me just over an hour – and it certainly wasn’t a difficult walk, even by San Francisco standards. What it was was relaxing. And pretty. And a chance to […]

LA loves its gates. Gates to protect driveways and front yards and neighborhoods. Grills on windows and doors to keep strangers from coming in (or to keep your teenagers from sneaking out). Some, like the one above, are incredibly beautiful; most are bland and banal. I walked around my parents’ LA neighborhood taking photos of

My friend J is turning 40 this year. She’s having a spa-day party and bought a bunch of my flower notebooks as favors. She’d asked me to personalize them, but because I don’t have any room in my production schedule for custom work right now, I offered to make her personalized tags instead. Can I

I used to be an avid reader. And I suddenly realized that I’m not anymore. I used to devour books. I read them on the bus, during lunch breaks, curled up on the couch. I probably averaged a book every two weeks or so. But in the last year, I’ve stopped reading like I used
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