Hello Again

A lot has changed since I last wrote on this blog. In September, I was jobless and hanging out in mid-city L.A., avoiding the heat of the Valley. I had only been back from New York for a few months. Since the fall, temps have cooled (and have now started to heat up again), I moved back to the Valley, and I now have a job (I even had two for a time).

My new job is in a completely different field than any of my previous jobs, which meant that there was a big learning curve when I first started. My brain was so overwhelmed for a while that I didn’t have any extra RAM (as my techie dad would say) to devote to my blog. Moving to the Valley also limited the amount of cultural opportunities/events to explore and chronicle. Lately, though, I find my thoughts straying back to my explorations of the summer and how satisfying it was to write about them. Now, whenever I visit a new place or do something out of the ordinary, I find myself composing blog posts in my head, thinking about how I would describe something and what details I would include.

Having decided to start writing my blog again, I’ve also decided to change the focus slightly. Although New York will still always hold a special place in my heart and I will always miss it, my life is here in L.A. And there are so many great things about living here that I want to focus on celebrating all there is to do in L.A. rather than trying to somehow console myself that I’m not in New York. Thus, while the name of my blog will still be “Falling in Love with L.A.,” it will be more about exploring what it means to love living in the City of Angels. That’s not to say I’ll never mention New York ever again. I don’t think you should ever forget the places you’ve been, especially the places that really get inside of you. But there’s so much to see in the world that you also have to be open to discovering new places. And maybe even rediscovering places, too.