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 …
We caught no fish today. Again. I keep getting told that fall fishing is the best and yet the trout seem to be hiding. When we were on vacation at Convict Lake last month we shopped at the Whole Foods of bait shops for the most expensive garlic flavored mouse tails you have ever seen …
The little tea shop in Cambridge was not the kind of place I would have ever been caught dead if I was still in Los Angeles. It was an old falling apart dreary building on a rainy day. When I woke up on that winter morning in 2004, I was far from my home in …