Last night I snuggled up on my couch to indulge in the season premiere of my #1 guilty pleasure: House. The episode featured a plot line in which a woman, crushed in a collapsed building, was struggling against other, mysterious, life-threatening illnesses. At her bedside were her boyfriend and mother....
Posted September 24, 2007 | 15:55:00 (EST)
Two weeks ago our family hit the LAUSD jackpot: we got a call from LACES (Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies) informing us our daughter had been accepted into the seventh grade. LACES is the Holy Grail of LA public schools (Blue Ribbon, one of the 10 best nationwide...
Posted September 11, 2007 | 19:18:00 (EST)
Once again science has confirmed what we already know: liberals and conservatives think differently. Neuroscientists at NYU and UCLA conducted a simple test on college students all along the political spectrum -- from latte-sucking liberals to tobacco-huffing conservatives.They were seated in front of computers and given the simple task of...
Posted September 5, 2007 | 14:50:00 (EST)
As I write this, my nine- and almost-12-year-old daughters are out, alone in the world, on the mean streets of Los Angeles, with only a cell phone and a 15-year-old boy to protect them. They have gone with a pair of neighbors/friends/brothers up to The Grove, the nearby Rick Caruso-designed...
Posted October 1, 2007 | 19:41:00 (EST)