As a nature lover, I really don’t want to have rage in my heart when it comes to little varmints but all the relaxing lake days on earth can not soothe my soul when the local ground squirrels treat my front yard like Souplantation, Big Bear Lake. I have spent way too much of my …
Southern California—home to sunshine, surfboards, and a grocery store for every craving under the sun. You can’t go a block without stumbling across a new healthy market promising everything from gluten-free quinoa chips to hand-picked seaweed harvested by ancient monks (okay, maybe not that last one… but we can dream). If you’re tired of the …
It’s only 7 a.m. and I am already having such a Monday. There is nothing like being in the middle of mixing up a cake batter, opening a brand new bag of marshmallows to find it is chock-full of ants. As a lifelong baker, I have never had anything like this happen to me in …
Leave the rosé at home, lace up those dusty trail runners (preferably not the neon ones from 2012), and prepare to traipse through the Inyo Wilderness for four soul-cleansing days of pure, unfiltered nature. That means sweating until you cry, sleeping on a rock that’s pretending to be a sleeping pad, and wondering why you …
We have all been there. You just thrifted the very best MAGA red sweater but OMG, there is a stain on the front in the shape of Elon Musk’s head. How could you possibly have missed that? I feel like when I go on a thrift store shopping mission, I tend to hit up so …



