Where I Stand.

The last few months were a whirlwind. Here's what I'm up to now.

Me, on the road in front of Londo Lodge, January 12, 2025.

I’ve been glued to the news about the fires in Los Angeles. I am so upset and filled with grief about that continuing, traumatic disaster. So it feels really weird to write about anything else. But I’ve just had a major life shift and people have been asking about it so I thought I’d give you the details of what I’m up to. I’ve moved full-time to my cabin at Yosemite. The move was really frantic and chaotic and I’m still processing it, as well as my city starting on fire right after I left, so I’m going to try to just stick to the facts of what I’m up to rather than go too far into detail about anything.

I left LA January 3. The reasons are many, but mostly I just realized that even if I could afford a spot in LA, I was in charge of managing way too much interior and exterior square footage for one person. Trying to stay on top of driving back and forth between two houses, unloading, cleaning, working, then turning around and doing it all over again, got really, really taxing. I had my reasons for holding on to the LA place. Mainly my pit bull - hard to rent with - and the fact that rent has gone up and I’d completely renovated that place at much personal cost and had gotten it photo ready.

In early December, I got a terrifying letter from my mortgage lender basically telling me that if I didn’t pay a ton of money my house would be foreclosed. This whole thing is a story for another day but all you need to know for now is that I’m dealing with it with the help of a few lawyer friends and I’m confident I’ll figure it out. I have no idea how, but I will because I always do.