El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles de Rio Porciúncula (L.A.; Adobe Stock image)

L.A.

Good Enough to be True

If there are two camps, one gravitating toward New York and one toward L.A., I would say that until recently I belonged to the former.

We like to believe that living in a climate whose winter weather (and sometimes fall and spring) is challenging makes for greater productivity. This may be traced back to our Puritan origins, or a sort of brainwashing about how we need to contribute to the…