City Living

by Ridge Christian You might think it’d be somebody famous or a tremounds athlete Maybe a shaman or a muse But no It’s just some guy skating down Buffalo Street He’s singing Nights by Frank Ocean at the top of his lungs I’m walking down the street ahead of him …

As I sit here in a local coffee shop, staring into space and at the people sitting at their tables and walking by, I realize that wandering, mentally and physically, is my natural state of being. Of course, that is a paradox, for how can I be unfocused and have…

A Poem I should have been in bed Like the others— They spilled from club to taxi To cool sweet rest, While I sank into the night, A dark thing, a shadow But somehow alight As I let my feet wander Into the bright.

There’s a lot of buzz around smart cities at the moment. We recently worked with Jacobs, the global infrastructure consultancy, to look at emerging trends in the smart cities space. What do we mean by a smart city? It’s a technologically-modern urban area that uses different types of electronic methods…

*Note: This article was originally published by the author on February 23, 2021. In 2017, my wife and I bought a ranch-style house that was built in 1957 that sits directly off of a major Los Angeles county thoroughfare street. As a retired Marine, I used my Veterans Administration (VA)…