Writing

Top Posts of All Time (In Order, More or Less)*

1. Photo Essay: Barlow Sanitorium, Neglected (Updated for 2021)
2. Photo Essay: Patton State Forensic Mental Hospital for the Criminally Insane 
3. Photo Essay: Pasadena's Vacant Hospital of St. Luke, Patron Saint of Physicians, Doctors, and Butchers
4. To Look an Owl in the Eyes
5. Photo Essay: The Only Surviving Home from the Demolished Desert Inn Country Club Estates, Vegas
6. Photo Essay: Lanterman Developmental Center, Pomona, Haunted and Closing
7. Photo Essay: Rancho Los Amigos, Abandoned County Poor Farm, Downey (Exterior)
8. The Swimming Pool That Transports You From Beverly Hills to Bedford Falls (Updated for 2021)
9. Photo Essay: The Dorothy Bembridge Murder Mansion
10. Photo Essay: Into the Abyss of Downtown LA's Underground Tunnels 
11. At Lilley Hall in L.A.'s Toluca Lake, a.k.a. the Pumpkin Blow Mold House, It's 'Go Big or Gourd Home'
12. The Forbidden Haunted Mansion of Spadra Ghost Town
13. Wildflowering Among Weeds
14. Exploring The Haunted Historic Harris House on Halloween Eve Eve
15. Photo Essay: Verdugo Hills Cemetery - Deteriorated, Vandalized, and Washed Away

*last updated January 2023

Other Blogs/Online
KCET.org: SoCal Wanderer, Travel, Food, LostLA
PBS SoCal "Miracle on Wilshire Boulevard: From Growing Beans to Counting Beans In a Shopping District That Beat the Odds," "Beyond Gene Autry: The Making of the Singing Cowboy Myth," and SoCal Wanderer

LAMag.com: "How the Creators of Napa’s Suspension House Defied the Odds"

DiscoverLosAngeles.com
AtlasObscura.com
Frommers.com "How to Rose Parade"
Smith Magazine (+ Six Word Memoir of the Day)
Fortune / CNN.com "Career Wisdom in Just 6 Words"
deLaB "Making LA: 28th Street Apartments Tour"
Malibu Creek State Park "My Visit"

Print
Los Angeles Magazine Best of L.A. 2022

DTLA Book 2018
Six Words About Work (Smith Magazine)
The Sun Runner Desert Writers' Issue (Aug/Sept 09) - "The Call of the Salt"

Contests
Winner - Sum Up 2010 in Six Words (Smith Magazine / WNYC / NPR) (one winning entry here)
Winner - Six Word Resolutions 2010 (Smith Magazine / WNYC / NPR) (one winning entry here)
Winner - Six Words on New York City (Smith Magazine)
Winner - Six Words on the Digital Life (Smith Magazine / PBS / Frontline) (one winning entry here)