UNZIPPED: An Autopsy of American Inequality is in consideration for the Academy Awards and the deep consideration starts TODAY! Please pas...

While I'm on my Minneapolis Mom sabbatical, I'm looking for places and practices and great ideas that could - and SHOULD - be impl...

So ... yesterday, like a mere hour after I posted my Help Yourself story about the lovely person putting food out for our people living on ...

I was on a walk this morning, all the way in my own head, when I was very touched to see that a lovely home on Couer D'Alene had set ou...

After the depressing sight of seeing a Starbucks open for business on our Venice Boardwalk, I needed a boost in my awful, disappointed mood...

There's a big new mural on Speedway right behind Muscle Beach at Speedway, and it shows off some of the things that have historically ma...

Thank God it's Friday. For real. It's been a hard week in California, with people picking up the pieces from the wildfires, breathin...

Anyone who lives in Venice - Greater Los Angeles, really - knows all about the homeless epidemic. The U.N. sent a representative to tour Ski...

 *Update 10/18: I walked by this morning and it's all gone. Even the bushes. In less than 24 hours.    Sorry, dudes. I was into it. Kee...

What an excellent morning. I had my gorgeous beach walk, and wound up chatting with a dude on a lifeguard tower all about the ocean and natu...

If you read my last post, you'd know that I've been having a hard time with all the hateful rhetoric going around these days, never...

When I arrived at the beach this morning for my foggy walk, I was greeted by the sight of a replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Was...

I was at dinner last Tuesday night with a group of friends, including Louis and Netty Ryan, owners of The Townhouse. The idea was to head ov...

The Gonzalez family had lived at 1033 Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice since 1953, when it was still called West Washington Boulevard. Mr. G...

Everyone knows I love Venice, and always will. I've just become a little dismayed at the direction things seem to be heading these days,...

I am a bit bothered by some things lately, and with all the brothers and sisters out protesting with arms up on Wall Street (and it's sp...

I am absolutely thankful every single day in Venice . I'm grateful to live in a place where our community cares for each other, for ou...