I fully expect to come back from a half-day hike with some body pain. But it’s not usually in my kidney area! I spent most of the day yesterday trekking up to Dry Lake with my favorite Liberal Ladies. We tried our best not to talk about politics, as no one wants their conservative hiking …
I’ve always dreamed of being one of those effortlessly chic gardeners with a magical green thumb—the kind who casually harvests heirloom tomatoes while wearing a gently thrifted linen romper. Unfortunately, owning a collection of vintage summertime rompers and cute gardening gloves does not make you a tomato-growing goddess. But every mid-May, I pray… and I …
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 …
It was August 20th, 2020 on an eastern Sierra mountain top and I was daydreaming about acorn squash. I had just turned forty years old on top of the tallest mountain in the continental United States. I was beyond exhausted after hiking up 6,000 feet of rocky mountain trails and maybe just a bit delusional …
Once upon a time in a forest far, far away from the nearest Whole Foods, a hyper chipmunk decided to grow her own crop of magical Fairytale Pumpkins. In the autumn of 2017, as the red and yellow oak leaves were being blown to the floor of her forest home at over six thousand feet …