I spent the morning in Chinatown, the afternoon in Altadena (don't ask
me where Altadena is; having just gone there, I still don't know) and I
had to get to Venice by evening. It's a good thing I drive a hybrid or
my carbon foot print would be out of control. With two hours to kill
before my rehearsal in Venice I came up with the fabulous idea to hit
up the Robertson car wash.
You can imagine my dismay when it started raining literally the second I got my keys back. Not only was my car no longer clean, but there was bumper to bumper traffic since LA drivers immediately forget how to drive the second even one drop of rain falls from the sky.
That's when I realized I that I hadn't eaten in over six hours (which for me is just enough time to come close to death by starvation). To make matters worse I was in that no man's land part of west LA and I was sort of late to rehearsal. That's when I found it.
My husband Dave always seems to be ahead of the cool gadget curve,
making sure we're the first kids on our block to have the latest and
greatest tech toys. We've had our Wii for years, stood in line the
first week for the iPhone (him not me), sold our regular laptop to
upgrade to the MacBook Air (worth every penny) and are still jamming
away a year later on Rock Band when most people have never even played
the game. I couldn't imagine what he was going to pull out of his
Christmas stocking this year. Thanks to the generosity of his boss, it
was a Kindle. For those of you who shop on Amazon – which would be almost everyone
with an Internet connection on the planet – the Kindle is not exactly
new, but it sure is hard to get your hands on, which is a bit of a
surprise considering how expensive it is.
The future of our food system is at a critical juncture, says Arty Mangan, Food and Farming Program Director for Bioneers. “The industrial agriculture industry says that they want to feed the world, but at what cost?”
Today was our first full day at the Democratic National Convention, and we started out at a breakfast sponsored by The Michigan Democratic Party. On our way down to breakfast in the elevator we ran into Dan Mulhern, the husband of Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm. He was friendly, despite being hot and sweaty after his morning run, and Michael told him how much he enjoyed Dan’s newsletter, “Reading for Leading.” As a fitting start to a day when the buzz was all about Hillary Clinton’s speech, Bob ran into Granholm herself, Michigan’s own strong female leader, at the breakfast, and she spent some time talking with us.
