Stevie Nicks Made An Outrageous Comment About The LA Fires. 7 Months Later, I'm Still Thinking About It.

"After that first song, she started to speak and said she wanted to go 'a little bit rogue' to tell her story."

The Palisades fire has blessed me with a conversation starter that I will likely continue to use in the years to come. It’s dramatic, yet predictable. It goes like this:

I see someone I haven’t seen since the fires, which devastated Los Angeles in the early part of 2025, or perhaps I’m meeting someone new. I tell them that I was fortunate that my house did not burn down, and that somehow my immediate neighborhood was spared from the flames.

I then say, “Let me show you something.”

I take out my phone and produce a map of the area affected by the Palisades fire. The fire is represented by a big red blob superimposed over LA.

“This area is significantly larger than all of Manhattan,” I say.