by Lynn Lipinski | Dec 30, 2016 | Personal, Profiles
Steve’s mother, Margaret Arakawa, died on December 26, 2016 of natural causes at home and surrounded by family in Arleta, Calif. She was 92. Feisty and faithful, Margaret worked hard to gain her mobility and voice back after a serious stroke in January 2015. We...
by Lynn Lipinski | Jan 29, 2016 | Profiles, Stories We Love
People said he was cursed. Schoolchildren avoided him. His father sent him to live on the streets when he was a teenager. Mali musician Salif Keita could be a bitter, angry man, but instead, he writes beautiful songs about life, love and fighting prejudice. His most...
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 | 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...
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 | Jul 22, 2014 | Profiles, Technology
Being a computer used to be one of the few women’s jobs in astronomy. Today, the word computer evokes plastic cases, microchips and power cords, but the term “computer” was actually first used in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to describe...
