by Lynn Lipinski | Aug 23, 2020 | Essays and Features, Los Angeles, Personal, Writing
In 1999, I landed a job that offered excellent medical benefits with one hitch: no dental coverage until after the first year. Perhaps I could go without dental benefits for one year? It seemed a calculated risk worth taking, my then-husband and I thought. We were...
by Lynn Lipinski | Jun 17, 2015 | Essays and Features, Los Angeles, Personal
There are more homeless people in Los Angeles in 2015 than there have been since the homeless census in 2007. The biennial homeless count, released in mid-May, reported a 16% increase in the number of men, women and children living on the streets or in shelters. And...
by Lynn Lipinski | Oct 3, 2014 | Flash Fiction Friday, Los Angeles, Writing
Ashley and Calvin stood behind their orange shopping cart, arms touching but eyes fixed on their smart phones as they waited for the one Big Lots cashier to work her way through a line of 20 customers. “That candy corn display has me thinking,” Ashley said....
by Lynn Lipinski | Sep 19, 2014 | Flash Fiction Friday, Los Angeles, Writing
The normals abandoned the park to the squirrels and the homeless that white hot afternoon. They retreated to air-conditioned hinterlands with their fancy red headphones and silly dogs and trilling smart phones and neon sneakers, and left in their wake an easy and...
by Lynn Lipinski | Aug 26, 2014 | Los Angeles, Profiles, Writing
Ever read that melancholy writing that romanticizes alcoholic, desolate characters as broken geniuses hiding their light under dirty hair and scruffy clothes? I’ve heard it called drunken literature. Charles Bukowski and William Burroughs owned the genre. I just...
