This month is my tenth anniversary in Los Angeles (Thai Town). Here are a few things I could have done better, and a few I think I did right.

Pershing Square sits atop a parking garage between 5th and 6th street in downtown Los Angeles... And it sucks.

In 1906 American psychologist and philosopher Williams James gave a speech at Stanford praising the “higher military virtues “ of discipline, self-sacrifice, and hardihood. The speech became a well-known essay titled “The Moral Equivalent of War.”

The man was in rough shape. His hair was unkempt. His skin was tanned and covered in dirt. He wore generic track pants and a ratty, sweat yellowed t-shirt.

Interstate 10, or I-10, or “the 10” as it’s known colloquially, is a trans-continental highway that travels east from the Pacific Ocean in Santa Monica (assuming you’re on the west coast) through Los Angeles and on towards Phoenix.