Myself, wearing a rainbow terry cloth crop top and large straw hat, holding a sign reading "I love the 60s & 70s but not THIS much!"

Here We Are…

June 27, 2022, 1 Comment

For a long time I have basked in the musty, technicolor glow of the mid-20th century and nearly all it had to offer. I filled my closet with 50s shirtwaist dresses and 60s polyester shifts, jewelry boxes with Bakelite and rhinestones, furnished my home with Heywood Wakefield, dined off of Franciscan Starburst, watched countless episodes…

LA City Hall stands tall over a lawn full of people protesting.

Bans off our Bodies Rally

May 18, 2022, 4 Comments

Last weekend Patrick, some of our friends, and myself attended the Bans Off Our Bodies Women’s March in Los Angeles to rage against the leaked intention to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court case that allowed people legally obtain an abortion. There is a part of me that is shocked that in the…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Myself, wearing a pink mini dress and blue scarf carrying a sign reading "I Shouldn't Be Living Through Things I Studied in History" along side my friend Kaitlyn who wears a shirt reading "She Believed She Could So She Did" and carrying a pink sign reading "Women's Rights are Human Rights"

Women’s March 2019

January 21, 2019, 17 Comments

I struggled a lot with deciding to write this post. After the election of 2016, I struggled a lot with my blog overall. It felt small, pathetic, and unimportant compared to the issues we were going to be facing with the new administration. But I received a lot of encouragement to keep going, as it…