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TYOLD Day 4: Here’s the Story…

by | Jan 4, 2014 | Differently

…of a lovely lady Who was bringing up three very lovely girls. All of them had hair of gold, like their mother, The youngest one in curls. Here’s the store, of a man named Brady, Who was busy with three boys of his own, They were four men, living all...

TYOLD Day 3: Walking in LA

by | Jan 3, 2014 | Differently

I have lived in Los Angeles for nearly 30 years – longer than I lived anywhere else – and so my Midwestern upbringing has ceded ground to Angeleno traits in a variety of different ways.   I work out with a personal trainer; I say soda instead of pop; and I...

TYOLD Day 2: The Shoe Car

by | Jan 2, 2014 | Differently

I have lived in the same general area of Los Angeles for most of the nearly 30 years it has been since I escaped from Iowa (which I did as soon as I was sure my parents couldn’t send a sheriff to bring me back). It’s North Hollywood unless you want to call...

The Year of Living Differently

by | Dec 19, 2013 | Differently

I’m bored. I could wax eloquently about the search for meaning in my life after a brush with death in the form of a particularly nefarious form of cancer. I could frame it in bucket list and/or YOLO terms, just to be multi-generational. If I tried hard enough, I...