I want to be everywhere all at once. Its a problem Ive had since I was in high school, wanting to be at every single club night to say, I am here, look at me, I can dance and do whatever I want. I di...
How did the end of the school year get so insane? How did my allergies get so intense that I couldnt properly breathe for a whole week? How did I get 20 mosquito bites that are now looking like a cas...
We pass this community garden on the Rio Hondo bike path and if you know anything about Bell Gardens and the surrounding cities, then you know that its kind of a miracle that something like this exis...
You would never know that across the street from South Coast Plaza, behind at TGIF, is a secret cove of Californias best natural features, all sitting between high rise business buildings, built by N...
This months Bibliofilles choice was The Marriage Plot, and that is one weight of a book and none of us were going to finish in time. Or maybe we didnt want to rush the plot line. At least, I wanted t...
Im taking this summer-winter Sunday to get every last bit of just enough light while I sit here on the porch putting together the poems I want to read at an open mic next week. The sky is light purpl...
I have a secret to reveal that some might be shocked to hear: I am not completely in love with the desert.I want to be, and I dont know exactly why I am not, but the times Ive been havent proved as m...
An old Avon suitcase has moved from garage to garage from one sister to the next. It moved in with us over the holidays and we had fun looking at pictures Ive never even seen.My mom and her sister, l...
At my job in San Francisco, Jorge was coined The Renaissance Man because when he popped in for a visit he could fix just about anything that our non profit needed. Here at home I havent given him a n...
Can you believe that this stretch of Santa Barbara ocean was sunny, even warm on the day after Christmas? With all the day trips and one nighters Ive been taking, I somehow never fit in a walk on the...
Snap peas are probably the prettiest thing Jorge has grown in the garden so far. They are delicate with their tiny tendrils that you can attach to anything. We thought they might just be a beautiful ...
This is what doing looks like. For me, right now at least, doing means taking the thoughts always on my mind, the dream list of things I want to spend my time practicing, and actually just doing them...
I grew up thinking that Silver Lake would be the place I would land. My moms best friend lived there, bought cheap in the 60s, and when she found out my mom was pregnant, she decided to do the same, ...
For a long time I was confused about what Pacific Standard Time was. I was just too busy at work to stop and read the materials they gave us and most of the time I feel pushed out by the museum art w...
This cat is Monas baby boy and when we found out he had to have surgery, we were all a mess. He gets into fights all the time, but this time his wounds got infected and the only option was surgery an...
Ive explored the coast, the mountains, rivers, bays, the highs and lows and caves of northern California and I would always choose water or fog over heat and piles of boulders, but since Ive moved ba...
This has all the makings of a perfect Saturday morning. We picked up Em from the airport, she handed me a jar of her famous granola, and then we handed her off to the man of her dreams inside of his ...
I needed to fill up. All fall Ive been running on nearly empty and now that the big day, the big personal statement event has passed and we had almost 400 ( still havent tallied up the numbers) stude...
My parents were smart. They had us 7 years apart which gave Mona her own childhood as the only grandbaby for a long time, and it gave me a big sister, someone else to take care of me. Our personaliti...
The General Store, just a pleasant train ride to the Outer Sunset in San Francisco, is dreamworthy for all its very cool books, blankets, vintage pieces, and more, but even if you took out everything...
You know when you were little and you saw moms or adults doing things on Sunday afternoons, so effortlessly, and you couldnt imagine how they werent just hating Sunday? Sade, U2 playing on the boombo...
I like falling in love with old ladies. I have an instant fascination with a womans life, how she got here, her struggles, her memories, her jewelry. When I was little I assumed all kids had someone ...
Its been a long while. Still extremely busy at work and trying to focus on finding ways to get in ultimate relaxation both before and after work. Yoga on YouTube, burning rose scented candles, sleepi...
Celosia, curtains, color.It was 90 degrees on Saturday and I got a sunburn from working in the garden, and now theres rain, Im sleeping in socks and all the blankets, and on a walk today with my mom ...
I write in a journal every morning, the Womans Life Organizer, a book that takes you week by week and asks inspiring questions, always grounding me in what I need to give more time to, how I need to ...
I walked along these cliffs to get away from it all. I didnt understand jogging or therapy or meditation back then. I just did what I could do, walked for hours along the ocean, past horses, through ...
Jared and Nicole got married by the ocean and Im still feeling all the love and reality of it.The other highlight of the trip was, like always, driving along highway 192 and getting lost in the hills...
A Hollywood Bowl concert in the summer means a lot to me. When I lived away, I would try to get in one a summer with Mona, and now we invite our mama too. This year we went to the Serge Gainsbourg tr...
You need to visit this truck. Drive to somewhere in Orange County, order a burrito or taco and then indulge in arroz con leche with berries, sip a melon and lemongrass agua fresca, and you will be in...
One more northern California post. Bear with me, its a chance for me to continue to relive this magical weekend and tell more stories. With all the stress and anxiety that comes from my job, my crazy...
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