What this is about

I ride the Metro Blue line to work, from Long Beach to Los Angeles, five days a week. I do it by choice. Having spent close to a decade consulting, driving all over southern California from Irvine, to Ventura, Sun Valley to Santa Monica, I'm done with the car, I'm done with traffic. I like the train.

I ride the blue line to work, right through the heart of South Central Los Angeles. I'm the minority on the train, the one who gets the, "What's that guy doing here." looks. On the train, I get side of reality that a lot of people never see. I hear these stories, these tales... loud, boisterous conversations half shouted into cellphones, or shared across the aisle. They are the kind of stories and life situations that make me pause, and wonder if I just heard what I thought I heard.

That is what this blog is about. Those tales, those stories, those... I can't make this shit up moments.