I like Eagle Rock--Swork Coffee. We live in Hancock Park. So what about your husband James in the toddler story? Is he real? I like the way you write, I think you have talent. (I am a creative writing professor at cal state la, so I have a pretty good idea off the various levels of writing proficiency.) In the 90s my wife and I wrote and sold a bunch of screenplays but none of them ever got made! Before that I wrote novels. You can find two on Amazon one called Me and Kev and one called The Book of Frank.
Have you gotten into the screen writing thing? As I said, your story about the coin is a movie. Anyhow, you seem pretty cool.