The Charmed Life

I started pondering: could I make a bracelet entirely out of recycled beads? I didn’t need to ponder that for long. Of course I could. I ...

This morning, rather than torturing myself with Boot Camp at the Y, Chris and I took Esmeralda for a nice long walk, down to Echo Park Lake,...

I love gemstones. When I was a kid I had an awesome rock collection. I was always dragging home rocks. When my parents went on vacations ...

We live close to Dodger Stadium. How close? Well, not so close that, during a game, due to the traffic, we can’t actually go home. We’re ...

Long, long ago, King Suddhodana ruled a land near the Himalaya Mountains. One day during a midsummer festival, his wife Queen Maya retir...