Myself, wearing a blue peasant top with a bandana print on it, a red skirt with "76" in white scattered throughout, and white shoes, standing in front of an old New England style building.

A Walk through Old Boston…in Southern California!?

July 8, 2021, 5 Comments

While we spent July 3rd at the International Printing Museum, for the actual Independence Day holiday we spent the evening at home with vaccinated friends and watching both Disneyland and neighbors’ fireworks. Amid the pandemic I’ve been exploring a lot of our nearby parks, and over the last year I was introduced to Heritage Park…

Photo of P22, a gorgeous, golden mountain lion with a little white around his mouth and chin, walks along a dirt path

Meet P22 Hollywood’s Most Famous Cat

June 29, 2021, 3 Comments

Los Angeles’ famed Griffith Park is home to so many unique and wonderful things to see and do, many of which I’ve shared here on the blog, but it is also home to one of my favorite LA residents, P22. Just who is P22? He’s the loner of Griffith Park, king of an island surrounded…

On the left a blue and green map of Los Angeles, with the silhouette of a man walking, black text reads "Paul Revere was Here On the Trail of L.A.'s Legendary Architect Paul R. Williams" and on the right a photo of the Beverly Hills Hotel's green side with white script reading "Beverly Hills Hotel" and tall palm trees stretching toward a blue sky.

Celebrating the Life and Work of Paul Revere Williams

April 14, 2021, 2 Comments

It’s no secret I love a good building. Los Angeles is filled with many beautiful buildings of both the private and commercial kind, and in a wide variety of styles. One person who embodied Los Angeles architecture was Paul Revere Williams, and recently the LA Conservancy teamed up with the National Organization of Minority Architects…

Stop AAPI Hate

March 31, 2021, 2 Comments

The world has been dealing with COVID-19 for a little over a year now, and to say it has turned our lives upside down would be an understatement. One of the results of COVID has been an increase in racism and hate crimes toward Asians worldwide, and it is long over due that we all…

Myself, wearing a blue with white polka dot scarf as a headband, a red peasant top, and white flare jeans, a necklace with an image of the Declaration of Independence, and a white mask with various political buttons on it.

Vote, Baby, Vote!

October 13, 2020, 3 Comments

Over the weekend Patrick and I filled out our mail-in ballots and dropped them off at a local drop box. As some of you know, I’m originally from Oregon, which is all mail-in voting, so I am extremely thankful it’s an established option here in California, while some states have scrambled to get mail-in going…

Myself wearing a long sleeve, full length black dress, with a slit up the side, wearing an art decor fan style necklace of gold rhinestones.

What Do I Stand For?

September 30, 2020, 20 Comments

Since the last presidential election I’ll fully admit day-to-day life has been more difficult. Then, as you all know, COVID-19 arrived earlier this year, and made things more of a struggle, which was exacerbated by the horrendous “leadership” of the United States. Amid the pandemic, wrongful deaths of Black Americans at the hands of police…

Long Form: Removal of Confederate Monuments

July 21, 2020, 5 Comments

Unless you are totally new here, then you know that I value history. I love it. I have a degree in it. I live for it. Much of this blog is dedicated to history in one way or another. So…when I hear people crying “They are erasing history!” it should be an alarm bell to…

Why I Left the Knott’s Ambassador Program

July 8, 2020, 26 Comments

At the end of last year, I was selected to be one of Knott’s Berry Farm’s Anniversary Ambassadors. This meant I would be among some of the first to know what was happening at the Farm, write for the Knott’s Berry Blog, in addition to covering their various happenings here on my own blog, in…

Text cloud reading "Learn, Converse, Donate, Buy, Protest, Vote, Petition"

Keep Your Foot On the Gas

June 24, 2020, 2 Comments

As mentioned in the previous post, activism will be incorporated into the blog (in fact I just gave it its own category, you’ll find “Activism” under “My Vintage Life”), and today I want to expand upon that. As COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to climb here in California (yeah, we haven’t peaked yet) I’ve been…

Black and white image of protestors. Yellow text overlay reads "Black Lives Matter"

Be the Change

June 3, 2020, 3 Comments

I had an entirely different post planned for today, but it is being put off until next week, because it is vital to take a moment to reflect and make it very clear where I stand regarding the current situation in America. In the past I have made mention that I do not support the…