Writing

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

1. Photo Essay: Rancho Los Amigos, Abandoned County Poor Farm, Downey (Exterior)
2. Photo Essay: George Air Force Base, Abandoned & Consumed
3. Photo Essay: Lanterman Developmental Center, Pomona, Haunted and Closing
4. Photo Essay: Boron Air Force Station / Boron Federal Prison, Abandoned (Mostly)
5. Photo Essay: Riding a Ghost Train and Bunking Up In a Caboose (Or, This Is What A Traincation Is All About)
6. Photo Essay: Into the Abyss of Downtown LA's Underground Tunnels 
7. Photo Essay: Inside Greystone Mansion
8. The Forbidden Haunted Mansion of Spadra Ghost Town
9. Photo Essay: Verdugo Hills Cemetery - Deteriorated, Vandalized, and Washed Away
10. Photo Essay: Lincoln Heights Jail, Closed to Public (Updated for 2017) 
11. Photo Essay: Surfridge, LAX's Beachside Ghost Town, Part One
12. What I Learned from "Felicity" 
13. Photo Essay: Desert Center Ghost Town 
14. Photo Essay: Abandoned Sugar Factory, Betteravia 
15. Photo Essay: Hiking Old San Francisquito Canyon Road, Along the Path of the St. Francis Dam Flood 
16. Photo Essay: Where the Dead Rest in a Dead Village
17. Photo Essay: Southwest Marine Shipyard at Terminal Island, A Japanese Fishing Village Ghost Town
18. Photo Essay: (Mostly) Abandoned Hawthorne Plaza Mall and Parking, Exterior
19. Photo Essay: Patton State Forensic Mental Hospital for the Criminally Insane 
20. Crossing the Border (Cruzando la Frontera)
21. Photo Essay: Aimee's Castle on the Lake 
22. Photo Essay: USS IOWA, The Last of the Battleships (Updated for 2019)
23. Photo Essay: San Gabriel Valley Gun Club, Abandoned
24. Sentimental Lady
25. Photo Essay: A Fake Cemetery (with Real Headstones) 

*last updated January 2021

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

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"

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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)