Eartha Kitt

One of the glorious things about living in California (versus DC) is the weather — warm, sunny, dry, with low humidity. But with that comes fire. Last year, fire marched up the hill where my friends lived  [more...]

It’s Sunday night in my little neighborhood, and everyone has put out their trash bins for tomorrow morning’s pickup. We all have two wheelie bins, one for trash and one for recycling — here in San  [more...]

The soaring, otherworldly voice behind the Star Trek theme has died. Loulie Jean Norman was the soprano who lent the futuristic, spacey wordless voice to the Star Trek theme in 1966. In order to save money on royalties  [more...]