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elizabeth

Los Angeles, California
I am a writer living in southern California with my husband and three children. I am currently working on a book, a memoir of sorts, about raising a child with a severe disability. My work has been published in several magazines and journals, including Spirituality and Health and The Los Angeles... Full Bio
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The Downside of Urban Living by elizabeth Posted in: Blog Posts in Children's Health Sometimes I resent the kind of parenting discussions these kinds of billboards provoke. I wish that I lived in the halcyon days when I might have barked, That's a dirt ... Read on »
Nod briefly and become a cabbage by elizabeth Posted in: Blog Posts in Children's Health Sonoma, 2009 The Art of Disappearing When they say, Don't I know you? say no. When they invite you to the party remember what parties are like ... Read on »
Carrot Cake and Cocktails by elizabeth Posted in: Blog Posts in Children's Health I made this carrot cake this morning, after I dropped the kids off at school and before I accompanied The Relative to an oncology appointment. I frosted and decorated ... Read on »
Why is it raining? by elizabeth Posted in: Blog Posts in Children's Health That's what I'm thinking this morning at 9:56 AM. Rain in late May in southern California is unsettling. The sky is gray and the wind is rustling through the palm fr ... Read on »
Farmer Elizabeth by elizabeth Posted in: Blog Posts in Children's Health So, we have a break in the big city life that I usually describe. A tiny little bird lay on the patio outside the garage apartment in my backyard, and in lieu of The D ... Read on »
A Lesson by elizabeth Posted in: Blog Posts in Children's Health Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) is now recognized as the leading cause of mortality associated with epilepsy, outside of status epilepticus and underlyin ... Read on »
LA - 5:57 PM by elizabeth Posted in: Blog Posts in Children's Health Sirens are screaming, helicopters wander in circles over the neighborhoods, the wind has picked up, the sun is shining so brightly that we're all squinting inside, ... Read on »
Venice Boulevard Pink by elizabeth Posted in: Blog Posts in Children's Health I drive the boulevards of Los Angeles daily, and sometimes I'll drive nearly the entire boulevard from west (the ocean) to east (my neighborhood). Yesterday, as I returned f ... Read on »
A perfect poem, by elizabeth Posted in: Blog Posts in Children's Health at least for me. Thank you beautiful Vesuvius for bringing it to light -- Henry and Sophie, Hilton Head Island, 2010 First Lesson Lie back da ... Read on »
When profanity makes me laugh -- by elizabeth Posted in: Blog Posts in Children's Health really, really hard. Check this out F$%# Your Noguchi Coffee  (thanks, Gretchen, for the heads-up on this!) Read on »
Eighteen Years by elizabeth Posted in: Blog Posts in Children's Health May 21, 1994 - Mollis, Switzerland I don't want to throw in my lot with the marriage-is-hard-work crowd, the ones who suggest you see a couples counse ... Read on »
A Trip to India in between Baseball by elizabeth Posted in: Blog Posts in Children's Health Yesterday, I made a coconut layer cake with cream cheese frosting, in-between baseball games, for an Indian-themed birthday party. I googled Indian themed cake decorations f ... Read on »
From Stephen Kuusist ... by elizabeth Posted in: Blog Posts in Children's Health From Stephen Kuusisto's blog Planet of the Blind: I don’t hold with the  Atlantic Monthly’s  recent article that proposes we are lonelier because of facebook. ... Read on »
Caketastic by elizabeth Posted in: Blog Posts in Children's Health For those of you new to the old blog, I make cakes. I make cakes for money. And pleasure, sometimes. Yesterday was one of those days. Pleasure and money, a cake for a sweet ... Read on »
The Anthem of Fear by elizabeth Posted in: Blog Posts in Children's Health This post is about fear. This post is about the rapid acceleration of the heart. This post is about dread and the sickness unto death. ... Read on »
Careening Around by elizabeth Posted in: Blog Posts in Children's Health I felt like slamming my foot on the accelerator today, go out blazing, twisted metal flying and all the years of gun-slinging, standing solid against a sea of arrows, to hel ... Read on »
Laundry and Blackbirds by elizabeth Posted in: Blog Posts in Children's Health Columbus Avenue and 63rd Street, looking west, New York City, 1935-1941 via  NYC Municipal Archives Blackbirds Because it is windy, a woman finds h ... Read on »
I was messing around ... by elizabeth Posted in: Blog Posts in Children's Health I was messing around with Instagram on my Android (who knew these words would be understandable in our lexicon?) this afternoon, and my youngest son took the photo - ... Read on »