It's easy enough to hide behind your Facebook profile or the creepy dating app that you use, but what happens in REAL LIFE when you are tongue-tied or caught in an awkward situation? Remember a long time ago there were weird little calling cards? They're back! Tear-Out Cards … [Read more...]
Print Your Face With 3D Printing at Staples in Studio City
Why buy the printer when you can get your face scanned and printed in 3D at Staples in Studio City? The future is here (I keep saying that but I guess that's because it's true - the things we only fantasized about on Star Trek, like video chat, are becoming real now) and it … [Read more...]
Wordless Wednesday: Melancholy
These photos show bits from a wall of notecards at the New Roads secondary school in Santa Monica. It's like a real life Post Secret, all about bullying and being bullied. An InLinkz Link-up … [Read more...]
A Perfectly Ordinary Moment With My Extraordinary Kid
They sneak up on you, these perfectly ordinary things, but when the light catches them the right way they pierce your heart and you remember them forever. Perfect moments. One of these was so simple that it seems too obvious a story to tell, but I will never forget it. Of course … [Read more...]
The Vacation Will Not Be Hashtagged
At the beginning of June I decided to scale down my use of social media. It was a move I had been contemplating for the summer, and the first of the month seemed like a good clean place to start. I committed to only checking Facebook twice a day, instead of leaving it up on my … [Read more...]
Climb Out of Darkness – Postpartum Depression Fundraiser
I like to hike. It's my favorite form of exercise - not too bouncy, not too repetitive, and it gets me outside in nature. Well, some trails in the Los Angeles area are sort of nature-adjacent but you have to listen to the sounds of leaf blowers and people and trucks and stuff. … [Read more...]