Aaron Copland’s 7-11
Yesterday I was on my walk, and I was listening to a podcast. I had the volume on a bit louder because of the traffic noise and the occasional ambulance going to Cedars-Sinai. I was heading east and had just finished walking along the southern perimeter of Pan Pacific Park. As I approached the corner…
Stories Matter: Bunker Hill
This weekend, we took a walking tour of Bunker Hill. I am writing a novel called Rancholand, set across three periods in Los Angeles. One section takes place in 1905, and my character’s work brings her to Bunker Hill. The problem is that nothing remains of Victorian and Edwardian Bunker Hill. I must build it from…
Art in rancho land
Last spring I was walking home and I passed a young boy with a table on a corner. A sign hanging down from the table read, “Art for Sale.” I am not prone to ignore an art installation or a pop up gallery and so I approached the table and saw three pieces of art.…
Rancho Land: no joke
I walk almost every day. The length of my walk depends on my available time and the heat of the sun. While I enjoy the exercise, my motivation is usually based on Audible. I am currently “reading” four books. One fiction, two books on social justice matters and one book for my endless research of…
LUPE
Lupe I went for a walk ten days ago which I assumed would be one of the longer walks since I was up for it. But when I reached Fairfax, the heat and the sticky beat down on my plans and I chose to do the regular size walk. As I headed home…
Saving Beverly Hot Springs!
Last month I cried when I read Frances Anderton DNA newsletter and heard her report on KCRW that plans were brewing which would destroy one of Los Angeles’ most beloved Koreatown cultural icons; Beverly Hot Springs. These hot springs, discovered 120 years ago and the spa, one of the first Korean Spas in Los Angeles,…
RANCHO: Snowy Owl
When Snowy Owl arrived a few weeks ago in Cypress, it created a lot of commotion since they do not travel this far south or west. How the artic bird got here is unknown. A storm, a container ship or was Snowy Owl someone’s (illegal) pet? This weekend I saw that my friend Scott Templeton went to…
Misty in Rancho La Brea
Misty on Monday and on Community On Monday, March 13, I woke up tired. I had a weekend of advocacy where I pushed for more solar panels in CA and worked with friends fighting for public education. Both are a heavy lift, which I am up to do. But when I woke up on Monday,…
9/11 in Rancho Land
On the morning of September 11, 2001, my husband Charlie and I were in our home in Rancho La Brea. While we slept, two planes left Logan airport in Boston and one plane left Dulles in DC, all three were bound for Rancho Sausal Redondo. Around the same time, a Boeing 757 took off from Newark with…
Rancho KinDNESS
Up to this point, all my posts on Rancho Land pivot between what was then and what is now and are replete with interior hyperlinks connecting to additional research. That is not the case with this story. It is not steeped in history. There are no links to additional research. However, it does tap into something that…
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