by Ira | Jun 8, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
There are national guard troops all over LA. Literally saw a truck full of them driving down the freeway. And let me say as loud as I possibly can: FUCK. THAT. SHIT. Fuuuuuuuuuck that. Landing troops in my city, blackhawks and machines guns and fatigues with roaming...
by Ira | Jun 7, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
Had dinner at Uovo tonight and…legit, that place might be my favorite restaurant of them all. Good god I love that pasta. I had their artichoke heart tagliatelle tonight, plus a ragu added on (basically their bolognese). Liz had the cured pork pasta I can’t remember...
by Ira | Jun 6, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
Joe and Madhuri and Ashi and Aavi are here! It’s been a while since we hosted them. Particularly all of them. Man…it’s been a whiiile, actually, since they stayed at our house. Aavi wasn’t born yet. It was just the three of them. So, more than 18 months by that count....
by Ira | Jun 5, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
Once again, thumbing it. Joy is snugged up in the exact spot I’d need to put my iPad to write this entry, and she’s not budging. Silly baby. Another day a bit out of it. Going to be out and about tomorrow super early and away until the afternoon, I think. So…it was...
by Ira | Jun 4, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
Thumbing it tonight. Joy just haaaad to curl up in my lap, so no room for the iPad. She’s such a snug. I love it. Got eight pages written today, which is better than six, the standard, but not as many as twelve. I just petered out by the end of the day because work...
by Ira | Jun 3, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
List three books that have had an impact on me. Resisting the urge to make a joke and say the bible. Honestly, the first one that came to mind, because it was recent, was the Dan Simmons series of essays on Writing Well. Massively influenced by that, which essentially...
