What time are you coming over tonight? We are having pizza. I have sauce, mozzarella cheese pepperoni and mushrooms. See you this afternoon. If anyone else received this text from their father they would probably assume they were being invited home to dinner, right? Not in our household. I was driving half an hour to …
There’s a lot of things I just can’t do. I can’t sew. I can’t snap my fingers. And I can’t whistle. This last one would be a problem when you constantly hike with a little dog off leash and need to get her attention. So being the cat lady that I am I have started …
You really never notice how blue the sky is until you are at 13,000 feet. It’s such an amazing dark blue against the white of Mt Whitneys switchbacks. It’s such a phenomenal sight as I rested my back against a boulder, my heart feeling like it would explode in my chest. This hike, is beyond …
Blanche Misses Sophia. I’m pretty sure this little golden girl thinks that I’m taking her to “the farm” This is Carly’s first road trip and it’s a five hour one way road trip to the Eastern Sierras. To thank me for taking her on vacation she probably ate my sausage croissant as soon as I …
My Southern California life is a lot more dirt roads than shopping malls. It’s muddy running shoes, skinned knees and a mosquito squished sports bra and not True Reigion Jeans or six inch heels. I live in Southern California but not in the beaches and palm trees Southern California you are probably imagining. I live …