From TIME OUT:

It’s been five years since I moved to New York from Southern California, after growing up outside of arid Los Angeles and living on the beach during college in San Diego. My sister, still-married parents and pretty much every blood relative I have on the planet lives within a 30-mile radius of each other in L.A. County. And I’m here in New York City, working on the 42nd floor of a building overlooking Times Square and living with two girls in Brooklyn, mostly happy but still sometimes profoundly lonely.

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http://www.timeout.com/newyork/things-to-do/i-rented-a-mom-for-the-holidays