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L.A.

A cool Memorial Day

I marveled at the weather  as we listened to the elite runners cross the finish line at the L.A. Marathon while driving to Garden Grove for my friend’s funeral. I knew that the runners had been lamenting (a nicer word … Continue reading

25. May 2009 by darleene
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Just walk it off!

Today, I was at USC to speak as an online journalist at Annenberg’s High School Journalism Day. It was an early thing — 10 a.m. — so I was hurting, having had gone to bed around 2:30 after my 3-11 … Continue reading

28. March 2009 by darleene
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Dodgertown nearly became Koreatown

My work was handing out tickets to the World Baseball Classic, and I’m all about free tickets, so I of course opted in, even though I’m not what you would call a baseball fan. I didn’t even know who was … Continue reading

24. March 2009 by darleene
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Scavenger Kip

My morning routine goes a little something like this: I usually wake up at about 10:30 a.m. (hey, that is not laziness, its simply a night shift schedule), do some chores (like cleaning Kip’s litterbox), eat breakfast and drink my … Continue reading

18. September 2008 by darleene
Categories: L.A. | 1 comment

Went to see the big, green guy, didn’t see the purple and gold win

AP Photo by Kevork Djansezian, lifted from Yahoo Images Because of the heartache Trin and I suffered last Thursday, he was determined to not watch Game 5 between the Lakers and the Celtics. I was totally in agreement. Instead, we … Continue reading

15. June 2008 by darleene
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