My Miracle-Mile-Adjacent Reverie

Memories of a Place That Was Almost Home

When my now-husband, Matt, and I started hunting for our first apartment together in Los Angeles, we looked at places that were, in L.A. real estate-speak, “adjacent”-as in Culver City-adjacent, West Hollywood-adjacent, and Beverly Hills-adjacent. In L.A. you’re always adjacent to something: to celebrity, the ocean, the big break. It’s part of the city’s seduction–the constant, tantalizing proximity to something better.

We wound up settling on a Miracle Mile-adjacent Spanish colonial with white stucco walls and arched doorways. When we first went to tour it, the owner showed us through a …

The Nation’s Most Revolting Fitness Club: Mine

Where I Go is a new feature from Zócalo in which contributors describe—in a few words or in a few hundred words—where they go to find a sense of connection …