An Excerpt from Sugartime:

I was still on the day shift in Echo Park. I’d arrive there before Zach left for the restaurant in the morning, and stay until he came home unless Jessie had company and didn’t need me. But I’d moved my toothbrush, dog and laptop back to Laurel Canyon. When you’ve lived alone as long as I have, it’s hard to adjust to the rhythms of other people’s lives, and I’ve never really been able to write anywhere except in my own surroundings. But when even that didn’t get my creative juices flowing, I hung out with Hallie.

    We’ve known each other since our kids were in kindergarten together; she’s the friend I miss most when I’m not here and can’t wait to see again when I come back.We’re still on each other’s wavelength and speed dial, even though for the last few years we haven’t been in the same time zone very often.

Hallie is a queen among the queen bees of L.A. real estate, a far cry from the Montana girl who came out here on the back of Peter Fonda’s Harley, or maybe it was one of the Bridges boys, back in the day when all those brilliant young actors hung around Livingston...

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