“It’s my Birthday” And all I really want is a rainy day with a side of baking and maybe a good book to read while snuggling my pets. But wait! I just got the best gift of all! Mexico says I am welcome! It has been over a year since I applied for my global …
This late July, our family drove close to 8,000 miles just so I could shop at some of the best thrift stores in North America. Okay, actually, we planned a cross-country road trip full of family reunions and meet-ups with long-lost friends. And obviously, there were stops at numerous Thoroughbred racetracks across the country. We …
It’s been said, “When you are tired of Idaho, you are tired of life.” Yup. I can see that. Idaho holds so much pristine beauty, even though in 2023, over 17,000 spoiled Californians packed their Teslas and their ridiculous bro flat ball caps and moved to Boise and Coeur d’Alene. The wilderness of Idaho feels …
When I was a kid whenever my mom would bake a cake she would tell us kids if we ran in the house the cake would fall in the middle. So obviously if we wanted cake we had to go outside and play. All day long. The forty-three-year-old baker in me now knows it does …
It was May and the California super bloom was fragrant and blossoming. Believe me, in our ski town in rural southern California we were craving springtime temps and warmer weather. I mean as much as I love snowshoeing for basically half the year, I was also kind of craving some warm weather, some vitamin D …