When I bought my dog early on during my decade-tenure in Southern California, he was small and quiet, shut away with his littermates. But after a bath, a visit to a veterinarian, and a couple of mont...

Recently, the talk of the escort industry has been how badly escorts perform customer service, what they can do better, and what effect that improvement would have to help retain clients who can find ...

As I settle into my seat aboard the flight from New York to Los Angeles, I feel much the same as I did almost a decade ago on the very same flight. I have to say I feel pretty good, almost like IR....

It is easy to have faith in California. I’ve participated in some of my state’s iconic events: been to games at Chavez Ravine, watched my niece burst into tears as Goofy shook her hand a....

I know a man who’s a full-time professional poker player; he lives and moves and has his beginnings in that windowless, clock-less pleasure dome known as Las Vegas. It’s an easy life--earn....

I was raised without religion and I am all of those things that agnostics are...so far, it hasn’t caused me any bad experiences. I’ve always found the sexual ambiguity of Christ peculiar;...

Joining in a beach cleanup this week, I found soda cans, candy wrappers, a lone flip-flop. More trouble: the shore was dotten with dime-size bits of brightly colored plastic. This polka-dot effect ....

I may have thought that I had it made and was tempted to enjoy myself. But when I looked down, not only was I confronted with the dizzying prospect of the abyss out of which I had clawed my way, but ....

To the List of Things That Are Good For You, such as broccoli, treadmills, and fiber, let me add another: Crimean mud. Or so I am led to believe by the director of the health resort here. To hear h...

My Golden State continues to lure people westward, and once they’ve experienced the effortless lifestyle, they’re hooked. Who can blame them? California inspires people to live better! ....