This article appeared in the on-line magazine for actors The Networker on January 1, 2009

As the new year starts, I always get super-organized. I clean up my desk, the files and folders on my computer, my closet and everything from the bedroom, to the bathroom, to the kitchen, to my bike. I like to start out the year clean and clear.

I have already started cleaning by taking some old electronics, computer parts, an old laptop, batteries that I saved in a tin can, lightbulbs, water filters, VHS tapes, a broken bread maker, empty hairspray cans and old paint to the S.A.F.E. Collection Center. [Read more →]

Metro to Offer Special Holiday Free Fares Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve on all Metro Buses and Metro Rail Lines

Metro will offer a special Holiday Free Fare Program for all Metro Bus and Metro Rail lines operating on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve.

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Santa Monica is having a 3 day Eco Gift Festival from December 12th - 14th. I will try to make it to see if there have been made any shortcuts. Lot of events that promote themselves as green (just like the LA DWP Griffith Park Festival of Lights) have very little do do with sustainability.

I looked at this festivals website and so far I am quite impressed.

The tradeshow industry is second only to the construction industry in the amount of waste it generates. So, a ‘zero waste’ tradeshow poses a special challenge. [Read more →]

I read this article on Copenhagenize.com and it seems quite appropriate to post this since the LAPD is trying to enforce bike licenses here in LA.

The LAPD however does not provide any useful mechanism to aquire a bike license while at the same time using the licensing as an excuse to harass cyclists.

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2nd Annual We ARE the Festival! Ride.

It’s the opening of the “Yay for Motorists! Nay for Cyclists!” Griffith Park Light Festival.

The DWP, in an effort to help the City of LA become “America’s Greenest City,” has banned cyclists from the auto-centric, environmental nightmare known as the Griffith Park Light Festival.

This year approximately half million people will arrive at Griffith Park, the largest urban wilderness park in the country, where they will sit in idling automobiles for 90 minutes while they wait for their opportunity to drive through the one-mile long Festival of Lights.

Join us as we once again adorn ourselves in the appropriate holiday decorations and ride through the gridlock, sharing holiday goodwill and cheer with all those trapped in their fossil fuel burning, infernal combustion machines of horror.

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This article appeared in the on-line magazine for actors The Networker on December 1, 2008

I love the Holiday season, and I love the sensory overload! No matter where I am, I smell apple cider, pine, pies, cranberries, ham, nuts, fireplaces and snow. No matter where I go, I hear bells, singing, holiday music and people laughing. Wherever I look, I see color, glitter, sparkles, candles, decorations, creative inspiration, smiles, discounts, sales and special offers. No matter how old we get or where on this earth we are, we all feel the excitement of the Holiday season. It doesn’t matter how rich or how poor you are; this season grabs and affects us all. [Read more →]

I’m THANKFUL for my husband!

I’m THANKFUL for my family!

I’m THANKFUL for my friends!

I’m THANKFUL for the opportunities that life has offered!

I’m THANKFUL that I have a home!

I’m THANKFUL that I have food!

I’m THANKFUL for my health!

I’m THANKFUL for living in a great country!

I’m THANKFUL for being alive!

I’m THANKFUL for you!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

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This coming Friday, the Cyclists’ Bill of Rights comes before the City Council’s Transportation Committee. We’re excited to present the CBR and we would love to have the City’s endorsement and support.

The Cyclists’ Bill of Rights as it is written in full by the Bike Writers Collective has been endorsed by the East Hollywood, Silver Lake, Atwater Village and Coastal San Pedro Neighborhood Councils along with the Caltrans and Los Angeles Bicycle Advisory Committees. The presentations stirred great conversations and in all cases the CBR was endorsed as written and as presented.

Now that it is coming before the City, we’re concerned that the City will attempt to modify the CBR. [Read more →]

This article appeared in the on-line magazine for actors The Networker on November 1, 2008

One day I was riding my bike west on Olympic Blvd. to a rehearsal for the theatre production “Voices From Chornobyl.” This required me to wear some frumpy clothes and not wear make-up. As I was cranking up a hill, my phone rang. I pulled onto a sidewalk and saw that it was my agent calling me.

“Enci,” my agent said, “the good news is that you have an audition. The bad news is that you have to be on the Warner Brothers lot within the hour. I hope you are not on your bike.”

“Um, no, I’m not,” I said as I tried to sound calm and not reveal that I was suddenly frantic. “But I won’t have time to go home, since I’m on the west side, and I’m not dressed up or anything. I don’t even have headshots with me. Or make-up.” [Read more →]