A few months ago I got an email from a hometown acquaintance asking advice for a young girl in her church who was thinking about moving to Los Angeles. I fired off a reply without giving it much thought, but then realized (as this was not the first time someone had posed such a question to me) that this might be of interest to some of you. I was a silly nincompoop when I moved to Los Angeles straight out of college in the summer of 2001. I don't know what I thinking. I could never do such a crazy... | Continue »