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You can hardly pick up a magazine without reading about Japanese uber-organizer Marie Kondo, whose TV show and bestselling books about tidying advise only keeping things that “spark joy.”
It’s going to be a whole new trash world on Jan. 1 when California residents will be required to recycle food waste.
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They don’t call me Orchid Death for nothing.
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During my 12 years of single parenthood, I often reflected that if I wasn’t murdered on any given night, it was only because nobody felt like it.
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Last time, I wrote about the spate of crime in our area and the frustrated efforts of my neighbors to rein in what seems to be a nightly onslaught of bike thieves, garage break-ins, porch pirates, creepy trespassers and brazen burglary attempts, even when people are home, all caught up close and personal on what are now pervasive security cameras.
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In the small town where I grew up, doors were unlocked and keys left in the car.
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A Harris Poll done for the American Psychological Association released in March showed that 42 percent of Americans reported they had gained a stunning 29 pounds on average during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Until this year, I had a personal vendetta against the proliferation of McMansions in my area.
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As my readers know, I’m always a sucker for those internet and magazine self-help articles on the theme of “What your car/phone/hairstyle/electronics/wardrobe says about you” or the “How to” pieces: “How to Land the Man of Your Dreams,” “How to Look 10 Pounds Thinner in One Day” and even “How to Look Great Naked.”
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If you think there is a lot of contention about the seals and sea lions at La Jolla beaches, you don’t read Nextdoor.
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The stove gods have been pooping on our heads again.
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One of my most common topics over the years — and probably the least favorite of the local chamber of commerce — regards La Jolla’s rat problem.
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I personally think that it’s not too much to ask that computers do what you want, not what you say.
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Who knew June 15 would be the happiest day I’ve had in 15 months?
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As anyone who has been reading my column for a while knows, I’m a sucker for “listicles,” those popular website lists like “What your car/phone/plants say about you” and “12 ways to lose 30 pounds in a week.”
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Over the 12 years I’ve been writing this column, chocolate has been a frequent topic, most recently as a health food, which, by the way, it has finally been determined to be — at least a part of it that may have heart benefits.
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I was genuinely dismayed to read recently in The New York Times of the death of a man who has had a profound impact on my life.
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The jig is up, medical science. I don’t believe a word you say anymore.
