Diary of a Bad Housewife

Someone asked me for a list of my favorite films from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema (La Epoca de Oro) so I've assembled a small list ...

Happy Thanksgiving. I’m driving back to Phoenix from California, where we spent the holiday with my in-laws. I wanted to share a few thought...

I just came across a box of video tapes we had packed away during our move from L.A. One of the tapes had a copy of a short movie from the 1...

It was kind of bewildering pulling up to my local polling place in Scottsdale today. The cars in the lot were covered with bumper stickers r...

This past weekend, we went up to Prescott again (maybe I should just move there). My husband wanted to check out their annual Ghost Walk. I ...

I drove my friend Angie to the airport today. I had been anticipating and preparing for her arrival for weeks and now here I was, saying goo...

Recently, a good friend confided to me that she was worried about her daughter. The young girl had started cutting herself and my friend was...

Well, summer is all but over and I feel like I got a nice bit of recreational reading done. I used to be a regular visitor at the Books Ar...

An anonymous person wrote in on my last blog and brought up FDR’s imprisonment of Japanese Americans at Manzanar during WWII . I’m not certa...

One of the things I miss most about Los Angeles is the many small ethnic communities that give that city a true cosmopolitan feel. Whether i...