by Lynn Lipinski | May 23, 2016 | Essays and Features, Personal
I thought human teen-dom was tough. My own experience of navigating mean girls, not having two Polo shirts to wear at the same time (80s kids called that doubling-up) and picking the wrong boy to kiss after school pale in comparison to the rites of passage nature...
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 | Mar 27, 2015 | Personal, Writing
I’ve been struggling to find a literary agent for one of my two fiction novels for more than a year now. I’ve pitched the story at conferences and via email, and received a steady trickle of rejections. Mostly formulaic responses, some nicer than others,...
by Lynn Lipinski | Dec 12, 2014 | Personal, Profiles
My father provided me with countless life lessons, many of which sunk into my head while I was pretending not to listen. I’ve written a previous blog on my favorite piece of his advice, the one about eating an elephant one bite at a time. In honor of the second...
by Lynn Lipinski | Jul 29, 2014 | Personal, Profiles
I’m more accustomed to hearing about values being talked about in a set – I’m thinking mainly of politicians touting “family values” and “American values” – as though there is some established list everyone who is...
by Lynn Lipinski | Jun 13, 2014 | Personal
I was angry in the early 1990s Los Angeles. My new college degree in business wasn’t helping me find a job in California’s deep recession and weak recovery. I was working two part-time jobs — one doing car insurance quotes on the phone and the other...
