I'm back to a place reminiscent of when my love story with this place first began from the view of 10 to the solitude I'm excited to see what this next chapter has in store.

Nearly three years here I know I'm still new I still get a weird feeling about the Westside, it's true maybe it reminds me too much of home, in another county, too much of the suburban dissonance, the distance between one sidewalk and the other, the strip malls, the chain restaurants--the fast ones and the … Continue reading another frontier

It's like marriage, really, living in a city you can't just take the city by itself, can't make a life out of your love for the buildings or the beaches or the hills you have to take the people, too there will be the in-laws you adore and the ones you'd rather never be caught … Continue reading living

They make it happen they work fast don't mind the dust-- they don't They know that in a month a week a day it might be gone So they pull on their workgloves arm themselves with rags and spray bottles, shop-vacs and paint-rollers, no masks, and get to work They make things happen when they … Continue reading inhabitants, 3