PATTERNS AND TONES

In the middle of 1999, I was catapulted down Highway 5 and ended up living in Los Angeles. How a Northern California girl moves to Southern California always contains elements of heartbreak and loss. It was true, I was looking for a new life down here in LA and all I knew was that I wanted to be warm, have my own apartment and have my own car. The choices were clearly between New York and Los Angeles. I had the same amount of friends and contacts in each city but my requirements whittled the choice down to the unthinkable, a move to the southern part of the State! Those were the years when a mass exodus was happening (at least in my view) from San Francisco. Prices were comparable and at times even surpassing New York standards. I couldn't complain. I was living in an 1887 Italianate Victorian for free, so I wasn't really feeling the pinch. When it came time to leave though, I knew I wanted to go further than I had before. I'm was born and raised in the Bay Area....