Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.

One identity is as a television writer, which is very classically Southern California, but another of my personae is as a New Yorker cartoonist.

I grew up with fantastic Southern food. In Southern California.

I'm glad I'm Southern. I'm the Southerner who's very Southern in that she left to move to New York.

Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts--census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway.

I'm originally from southern California, so I, like, say 'like', like, a lot. I've been trying to scrub any traces of Valley Girl from my speech since I moved to New York, but it's, like, totally way harder than anyone thinks, you know?