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To Heck With Waze, I’m Taking Metro

Posted on October 28, 2016 by Kristen Hansen Brakeman — 1 Comment

“I can survive two weeks driving to Santa Monica. How bad could it be?” I told my husband after accepting a freelance job there recently. How bad could it be? I’ll tell you — an hour and a freaking half bad,…

I Saw A Meteor and Lost My S…

Posted on September 15, 2016 by Kristen Hansen Brakeman — 4 Comments

It’s 6:38 AM and I’m making my kids’ lunches and staring out my kitchen window mindlessly at the valley below, when this light – this incandescent neon green light – catches my eye low on the horizon. The light gets…

I Jinxed El Niño – You Can Blame Me

Posted on March 4, 2016 by Kristen Hansen Brakeman — 6 Comments

“The El Niño rains are still coming! They’ll be here in January . . . February, no, we mean March, possibly April, or even late May,” the local weather forecasters all say. Yet our days feel remarkably like summer, and…