May 2011
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Beverly Hills Street Walkers?
Oh my, those looks I received as I walked north on Rexford Drive to an event at the Beverly Hills Hotel tonight. Was it my fresh blow-out and natural color from Shades? Hope not. It’s such a thrill when I flip back my silky tresses. Maybe it was the fishnet stockings and Thierry Rabptin boots. It’s true about shoes. Italian leather is sexy. No doubt. But really! A car zips through the...
January 2011
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It's a Small Walking World: Inspirations and...
On the 1.24 mile walk back from my bi-annual teeth cleaning by Dr. Howard Richmond at Wilshire and La Cienega, I popped into a shop that has always been closed when I’ve strolled by other times. AFK – which stands for Art for Kids – sells fine furniture for children - manufactured relatively locally in Orange County (a story perhaps for Patch?), and there were signed and numbered prints of...
November 2010
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Take a Walk - a Very Long Walk - Great Los Angeles...
Finally I am doing this and I helped promote it on Patch.
After announcements at 9:30 a.m., an anticipated 250 participants will leave Pershing Square promptly at 10 a.m., heading straight west to Santa Monica along our famed boulevard. Estimated time of arrival is about 4 p.m with a celebration at Border Grill Santa Monica. Rain or shine.
Meet up with the trekkers anywhere along the great wide...
Monty Python's Ministry of Silly Walks to Brighten...
Can you walk and laugh at the same time. Of course you can. View this - you’ll be linked over to YouTube - but come on back. Just watch out when you chew gum.
I heard Dr. Susan Love speak last week at the Beverly Hills speakers forum about her Army of Women and how they are seeking to recruit one million women for research. That’s not so funny, although Dr. Love has a great sense of...
September 2010
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World Car Free Day: All Beverly Hills' Roads...
Just a wish. But just imagine. Just bike riders and walkers. One our favorite green writers has the same dream: http://greenlagirl.com/celebrate-world-carfree-day-tomorrow/
Yep. My car has been in the driveway - all day and will remain all night. I walked this morning with our NetWalkers & Co. | Troop 90210 friends and throughout the day, I’ve been writing The Green Files about a...
Mohammed Just Gave Me a Hug.
It doesn’t take long at all. After a few morning walks when your time is your own and a pay check is occasional, you start to recognize our city’s street regulars. The silent hipster ever attired in a beret and black winter jacket even in the heat of summer — as dark as the shadows where he sits. The immodest athlete in sports bra and bike shorts, be-bopping as she cycles and...
August 2010
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It Was the Year of Walking Dangerously.
Someone could get killed. From July 2009 to July 2010, 73 people were hit by cars in Beverly Hills. And with that, the city boosting Niketown and Jimmy Choo was bestowed the dishonor of being ranked number one in the state for the number of vehicles hitting pedestrians per population, according to the BHPD Motor Sgt. Brad Cornelius. Not something to write home about. Especially when your home is...
Take a "Sound Walk" for an Ear-Opening Experience
http://bit.ly/adNQFd Whilst most of us seem to be iPod walkers, my iPod appears to be on permanent loan to my son. But you know, I don’t seem to mind. I really can’t imagine trekking through Franklin Canyon without hearing the vocalization of our fine feathered friends. (I am remiss in writing about our birding hike. To come!) With the exception of the faint drone of a private plane...
Walking Lady of the Canyon: Who Knows the Beverly...
Beverly Hills may not have a legendary walker comparably to the Walking Man of Silver Lake, but my husband recalls a tall, lean, deeply tanned woman of an indeterminate age bounding down Coldwater Canyon and through the Flats. Raised in this city, he remembers seeing her in the 70s when he was in high school and until recently, we have spotted her on her unknown mission, wearing pastel tennis...
July 2010
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Walking Up the Career Path
This morning I succeeded in business networking without really trying. That’s the pleasure of walking. Even with Linkedin, I hadn’t yet connected with a very busy industry contact. Intently reading a local paper while walking - although not always recommended - I heard a friendly “Hello Ellen!” Almost a blur as we both power-walked in opposite directions, it was L, a...
June 2010
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Follow the Beverly Hills Brick Road
One of the pleasure of our NetWalkers & Co. group is the element of surprise. You never know who may show up to join us. Today, Robert, whom I met at the Designers Hike with Rob Curedale, drove in from Altadena and combined our walk with his meeting in Beverly Hills. That’s the way to do it. From what I hear, Shirin, who is teaching Design at UCLA Extension, has invited Robert to speak...
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An Event for All Walks of Life
While I threw the fluffy covers off of my Serta Perfect Sleeper and stumbled over to my computer on Sunday morning, 20 bone-tired participants of Big Parade LA were just wiggling out of their sleeping bags after they had bedded down in the Silver Lake Rec Center. A little achy perhaps, but energized and ready to explore the next leg of the urban exploration of the stairways and byways of Los...
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Step up to It: The Big Parade Los Angeles II
Aside from the elegant stairway to shopping heaven inside Barneys as well as the unexpected steps between Beverly and Canon Drives behind the Crate & Barrel and its peaceful patio, I do not know of any somewhat public stairways in Beverly Hills.
That’s why the Big Parade is especially exciting. First of all, this is the second annual Big Parade, a two-day walk through Los Angeles that...
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Walk This Way: Google Map It
One of my favorite features of Google Map is clicking on the little walking man icon for directions by foot. Tonight I am attending a screening at CAA, now in Century City, but formerly at the convenient corner of Santa Monica and Wilshire, and shelling out the unvalidated big bucks for parking is highway robbery. It once seemed like Century City was a long distance away — it is a different...
What a Beach!
Off to walk along Palisades Park in Santa Monica. Need I say more?
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Daddy's Girl
Some of the pleasures of working from a home office are flexible schedules and unexpected adventures, especially the little adventures close to home. Today I had an impromptu lunch with my youthful dad in between his appointments. His phone call came at just the right moment while a file was taking its sweet Internet time downloading before I started my next cover letter. “Let’s go to...
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Sneakin' Sally through the Alley
For the first leg of NetWalkers & Co., we cut through an alley off of Elevado. One of our walkers was astonished. “This is beautiful. I’ve never done this before. It’s so quiet,” she said. It may feel a little sneaky, but I walk through the alleys of Beverly Hills as a matter of course. Like country roads, the maple trees or willows arch over the narrow roadways. There...
Promises Kept: Car-Free in L.A. for 6 Days
OK, not such a big deal, 6 days, but it is liberating not to be behind the wheel. You see so much more. (While riding the bus on Thursday I looked up from my newspaper and actually saw a chicken - and a rooster - crossing the road in Hollywood!) For the holiday weekend, we did drive up the coast for our annual pizza pilgrimage to Full of Life in Los Alamos, and I worked on the website copy for...
Make Walking a Style for Life!™
Let’s see which - or maybe both - papers will run this letter.
Dear Editor:
I walk in Beverly Hills every day for exercise and instead of driving for meetings or errands, and I’d say for each hour-long walk I take, I’ve encountered at least three or four close calls. Inattentive, distracted or rushed drivers zip through crosswalks or run red lights (notably at Rexford and Wilshire near...
May 2010
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Good Crossing-the-Street Karma
The crossing gods were with me this morning. Walking home after my spin class on the roof at TAO, I barely had to stop at any intersection. Amazing. Our friendly little waking man icon in full stride greeted me at every corner. This after a week in New York where one ignores lights and scopes out the traffic before stepping off the curb. Proud to say, I quickly blended into masses, throwing L.A....
Promises to Keep: Another Car-Free Day!
Hopping into my husband’s car to UCLA was the start of today’s Car-Free Day #1. On his way to work at Olympic and Bundy, he dropped me off at Santa Monica Boulevard and Westwood. “You can pick up the bus here,” he said in the moment I was exiting the auto. “Thanks, but nope,” I said. “I’m walking.” And within a half-hour I was there, after...
walkbeverlyhills asked: Love the subject. I walk in Beverly Hills, and hope that more people do, too! Thanks for doing this. When are we going to have a group walk?
Walking Withdrawal: Upon Returning from NYC
I will not stop walking. I will not stop walking. I will not stop walking. After five days in the Big Apple, I feel like I’ve just begun. But now I’m back in Beverly Hills with real errands to do in neighborhoods outside of our own few blocks. And a kid who would prefer to be dropped off at a meeting. My vow: to NOT drive my car - and still go places - until next Monday. Yep, by bus....
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Walking increases property values
This will not be the last time I will write about http://www.walkscore.com/ because the simple genius of its service is invaluable. Just type in an address, and in second you see your location and the locations of grocery stores, restaurants, book stores (still sad that Dutton’s Books was banished from Beverly Hills), a screening room and more along with the distance from your...
Onward! Walking backwards may sharpen thinking.
The logic is, according to Severine Koch, PhD, and colleagues in May’s edition of Psychological Science, that walking backwards triggers your coping mechanism of avoidance. But watch where you’re going.
Here’s the article: http://bit.ly/bxfcoG
April 2010
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“Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow. ...”
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