"Angels Flight?" I ask. "You've never heard of Angels Flight?" Yet this person is living here in the city of the angels.

"No," they repeat. "Never heard of it."

There are times when I get frustrated that people around me know nothing about Los Angeles and I wonder why...

We all have dreams. Some come true and some dreams get snuffed out. I've always dreamed of living in a town made perfect by the hard work of one of my two cousins, Nan Pharr Hughes, who puts on a Juke Joint Festival in Clarksdale, Miss., every April, and her...

The first bright face I saw at the Producers Guild's Awards Show at the Beverly Hilton was our own Marlo Thomas, there to present an award named for her father, Danny Thomas, (who is truly a founding father of television), for episodic television for Louie. Marlo is like wine and...

With tongue securely in cheek, seat up and tray table securely fastened (or is that the seat belt?), I would like to share some tips to make your travels better:

Adjust your attitude and your altitude. Keep your spirits high, angels! I was born in the city of the...

Don't you just love doin' the TSA dance? Here are some steps to make it a more fun, fast and efficient one:

Wear socks. When your shoes have to come off, you don't want your bare feet touching filthy floors. I saw a bed bug or some creepy crawler hopping...

"Your slip is showing." OMG! These were words that could mortify me, send me into major embarrassment orbit mode and make me want to hide out on another planet for about 20 years. Boy, how things have changed! Now everything shows and hangs out, and lingerie or underwear has become...

My friends chose to lose, but I chose good health and good foods, which are grown here at what's lovingly called "The Ranch."

Choice reigns supreme at Rancho La Puerta, the 3,000-acre spa/resort 40 miles south of San Diego, in Tecate, Mexico. You can begin your day awakening in your...

Sometimes it's easy to spot: a baby's smile, a puppy's jump, a seashell's lines, a cello's echo. It's there somewhere in every little thing: the poetry of life. There is a rhythm, a balance, a harmony, though sometimes we have to search for it. Once found, we can enjoy the...

It's hard to recognize Europe anymore... without the ubiquitous cigarette hanging from the mouths of French painters doing their thing in Montmartre or Italian gardeners hawking juicy red tomatoes in Tuscany. Gone are their cigarettes.

Country by country, Western Europe has gone green and tossed out the cigarettes from...

Fun. Fun in the Sun. Fun for Everyone. Fun is in the word Funny. Who doesn't love having fun? Nothing beats it! Fun can end quickly, too, when something happens such as when you lose your job, lose your pet, or even your Starbucks buzz.

There are some ways to...

My friend is going through a rough economic time and is not alone. It's hard enough to get through tough times, but it is quite another when one starts getting down on oneself for being in that position. So first I would say, "It's...

Love transforms people -- it truly does! It makes them happy, productive, grateful, generous, and all manner of good stuff. So, if this is the case, why aren't people plunging into it all the time? Instead, they find reasons to worry, criticize, judge, blame...

I recently read that people tell seven lies a day -- they've integrated them into the lexicon of their lives. They may say that they filled their tank of gas for their car when in reality they put $10 worth of gas in the car; they may have stopped at...

Today's world is filled with disappointment. So where's the lemonade? This is not to say that disappointment is bad; it's part of the process of growth, it's part of the process to expansion, and it's part of life as we know it. So when people tell you to "make lemonade...

While there is still a chill in the air, Spring's flowers seem to take a certain glory in their defiance of it. As my train roars from Zurich, the blooms blur. At the station, I'm met by the Hotel Villa D'Este's driver, Massimo, who greets me with strong arms and...

My friends Wendy and Roger, who live outside of London and have more animals than the London Zoo, have a new acquisition aside from their new puppy, Poppy. It is a lantern clock from 1720 by Mark Hawkins which came from Bury St. Edmunds.

It was made right where...

I am in one of the most exciting cities in the world -- one blessed with 53 museums, a world class opera company, a gorgeous street for shopping called Maxmillians Platz that gives Rodeo Drive a run for its money, and where am I in this scheme of things? In...

Money. In the words of Ricky Ricardo, "I dun like it." I truly dislike it. I know it allows you to buy things. Nice things. Pretty things. But is it really worth it? I have to wonder whether the price it extracts from your daily life is worth all the...

I recently bought one of Jack Lalanne's juicers because I grew up watching my mother exercise to Jack Lalanne, and there was never a minute when my mother wasn't fit and trim with glowing skin looking fabulous!

So, I approached my Jack LaLanne juicer with a certain reverence. I...

Hawaii is supposed to have more millionaires than any other state and yet you can never find them! Because everyone is in aloha attire and looks so casual, it's impossible to spot them. I can tell you where they hang out and how to hang out at their haunts and...