Having just celebrated a "milestone birthday", here is my biggest takeaway after 60 years on the planet: There is great value in being fearless. For too much of my life, I was too afraid, too frightened by it all. That fear is one of my biggest regrets. I wish I...

Today is Election Day in Los Angeles. But save for the last-minute barrage of TV ads and scare-tactic mailers, you'd barely know that the city will be heading to the polls to pick its next mayor.

Actually not all that many of us will be heading to the polls....