http://writepudding.com Mon, 01 Mar 2010 03:42:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's been slightly over a month since I have been home from my European adventure and still the feelings, the memories, the experience lives with me as if I was still there. I miss it every single day, which is probably why I have been holding off on sharing photos ... http://writepudding.com/2010/02/inspired-making-french-macarons/ I've been ignoring this space, mostly because I'm afraid that if I sit down to write, and I mean seriously write, that my fingers will be bleeding out the ink directly from my heart, that is to say, it will be too emotional, too all over the place, too real. ... http://writepudding.com/2010/02/blank/ It wasn't meant to be this way. I know, I know. I said I would upload photos and insights in to my little trip abroad and I most certainly plan on still doing that, but something has been stirring inside ever since I got back. It was there before I ... http://writepudding.com/2010/02/the-rabbit-hole/ If there was a way to lay out the thoughts in my head in a straight line, they would circle the globe three times over. That was before I took my trip to Europe, and now that I'm back - it's ten times worse. I hope to update with photos, ... http://writepudding.com/2010/02/back-in-the-us-of-a/ My idea of a perfect afternoon is a day spent at a swap meet. Since the really good ones only happen on specific days of the month - all of which I always happen to miss, my consolation prize always comes in the form of having tea, but not just ... http://writepudding.com/2010/01/tea-rooms-my-rapidly-growing-obsession/ In three weeks I'll be heading to London, a city I adore as much as Los Angeles. The cobblestone roads and old buildings along with the hustle and bustle of the tube among other things appeal to me in ways that I can't accurately describe in words. The grey skies ... http://writepudding.com/2010/01/looking-towards-london/ The old saying goes that when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. I like to say that when life throws pomegranates at you, you make sure you know how to cut, peel, seed and eat that blood red fruit, because life isn't as simple as lemonade. Life throws you ... http://writepudding.com/2010/01/heres-to-you-2009/ Photo by RodneyRamsey I find it strange that every time it rains in Los Angeles, I feel compelled to write. Maybe it's not so strange. Maybe I'm strange. Maybe I don't belong in L.A., since the sun bugs me and the rain feels amazing, even if it means I'm stuck in ... http://writepudding.com/2009/12/the-rain-in-spain-or-los-angeles/ On the first day of the last month of the year, organizations, families, ordinary citizens and even social networks take a few moments out to commemorate World AIDS Day. The United Nations and World Health Organization estimate that 33.4 million people are living with HIV. In Los Angeles 56,000 to ... http://writepudding.com/2009/12/quarter-of-a-century/ Photo by  flattop341 On a whim one day, while I was searching on Twitter, I found an incredible lead for a story that I immediately pitched to my editor. It was about a Los Angeles area skating rink that had been having an LGBT skate night for the last 23 years, ... http://writepudding.com/2009/11/gay-skating-comes-out-in-los-angeles/