Working as an editor can often seem a gray existence. Sometimes I go for weeks with my nose buried in text, the stuff that makes the pages turn gray. If the universe of the publishing profession could be expressed…
Category: Editor’s Blog
Consider the Desert
A flight east from Los Angeles will usually cross, miles above at a cool altitude, the Mojave Desert. From on high, its dusty, flaky expanse looks as if every ounce of water has been leeched out, leaving behind dry, emptied rivulets.
Seamus Heaney, Rest in Peace with Your Father and His Fathers
One of the great Irish singers died today. Seamus Heaney passed away today in Dublin at the age of 74. Heaney was one of the world’s great poets, of course, and a winner of the Nobel Prize in 1995. He…
The D.C.-Lincoln Heights Connection
Our next issue of LMU Magazine, arriving in a few weeks, will feature a piece we’ve dreamed about for almost three years: a photo essay and feature story on the murals of Los Angeles. L.A.’s murals are inspiring and…
A Good Story Wins the Day
Here in Los Angeles, we’re passing our days in the season of awards: The Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild awards have already exchanged hands, and the new Grammy awards and Academy Awards will soon be in living rooms,…
The Ace Adams Award
This past December, the LMU men’s lacrosse team received an award that recognizes sportsmanship and respect for the game. For the second year in a row, LMU received the District 10 Ace Adams Award, the first time that consecutive Adams…
To Arrive and Not Depart
Like other Los Angeles landmarks — Hollywood, the freeways — LAX is a symbol of transience.
Sam Fischer’s Triple Crown Path
It was a baseball fan’s dream: a 30-minute conversation with a player who will likely go down in the history books as the greatest hitter in LMU softball history — Sam Fischer. In the upcoming issue of LMU Magazine, due…
Red Cabbage and Cool Water
I have a friend at work who, as any good friend would, has steadily been offering advice to improve my life. I’ll call him Good Ben/Bad Ben. Lately, Good Ben has been urging me to go with him to volunteer…
If Families Were Sports Clubs
Tawni Martino ’14 ended her career tied for No. 3 in goals (19) and total points (45), and No. 1 in game-winning goals (9). A few weeks ago, I spent an afternoon watching the season’s first home game of the…