Despite the Resplendent Color of Oz Dorothy Longed for Kansas

You Don’t Live in Oz

Photo of Griffith Park in Los Angeles in Early March, by author

Los Angeles, like Oz, is good in small doses. As Dorothy said, “some good parts and some bad parts.” Actually, she said, “It has some wonderful parts and some bad parts, but mostly wonderful parts,” despite nearly dying there twice. But she was a glass-half-full kinda gal. The friends she made and the lessons she learned far…