I am sitting here in LA with eyelids that will barely stay open. We woke up at 3:15 am to make a 6 am flight from DFW airport, which is an hour and fifteen minutes from Sherman. We flew to Phoenix, then on to Long Beach via US Air. I had students today so that’s…
Category: Timed Writing
The Outstanding Art in Fort Worth, Texas
For most people, Fort Worth, Texas doesn’t conjure up a picture of devoted art patrons who support not just one, but three world-class art museums. Billy Bob’s honky-tonk, yes; Championship rodeo, yes. But art? Actually, yes times three. The Amon Carter Museum of American Art at least has a western theme, so this excellent –…
Does Media Make Us Happy?
I recently saw an article that said that Facebook causes people to feel less content because they tend to compare their lives to others. Along that same vein, I was helping a student tonight work on a paper based on a book whose premise is that Americans have shifted from family-centered to society-centered primarily through…
Celebrating Ian’s New American Citizenship
Today, our friend and priest, Ian Elliott Davies, Welsh by birth, became an American citizen. He has been in the United States for eleven years, serving as the priest at St. Thomas the Apostle, Hollywood, and his road to citizenship has taken all of that time. Today when we picked him to go downtown to…
Writing Class I’m Offering In West Hollywood/Beverly Hills
This is a class I am offering in Beverly Hills. Please pass this along to any who might be interested. Much thanks, Len (Click on the image to enlarge)
A Few of My Favorite Things
I am struggling to write tonight so instead I have made a list of some of my favorite things and places. Sometimes 20 minutes a day is a lot… My favorite television shows are: 1) CBS Sunday Morning 2) Newsroom 3) True Blood – not so much this year, but in the past 4) Project…
Beauty, Girls and a New Measure?
A friend today wrote that her mother described her as handsome when she was growing up. This made it difficult for her to ever see herself as pretty and, in fact, she became skeptical of those who described her with that word, wondering if they didn’t perhaps have an ulterior motive. I am guessing that…
“Real” Beauty: The Truth
This morning a friend of mine sent a 3-minute YouTube video that was entitled, “Dove Real Beauty Sketches.” At the beginning of the video, we see a large loft space where there is a chair next to a curtain. A group of women have agreed to participate in the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty, but…
Grandbabies, Music and Fun
I have just returned from seeing my sweet grandbaby, Luna, along with her mother and dad, plus my daughter, Liz, her boyfriend, Ron, and my husband, Ray. We went down to Heritage Park in Pasadena to the Levitt Pavillion there and had a picnic on the grass while we listened to the bluegrass and folk…
College Essays – A Chance to Grow
I started my day with a student who came to work on his college essays. He is an impressive young man with a 2290 (out of 2400) on his SATs so his options are great. He is applying to several Ivy League schools – including Harvard – and has much work to be done since…
20 Minutes a Day 