This trip to Barcelona wasn’t my first. I had spent a few days there just after college when I was working in London. However, I only spent two nights and...
The morning after losing the passports we packed up our stuff in a jiffy and took a cab to the US Embassy where we were soon engaged in a 4...
We just spent a month in Spain and I want to write down as much as I can before I forget it. It’s been over 10 years since I’ve travelled...
My friend and I attended this event on February 18th. We missed the march and joined the rally at City Hall in downtown LA. It was a much smaller crowd...
We started out at my sister’s house. My niece had a day off of work so we grabbed her and headed to South Street. The last time I’d been there...
This is so cute. There are many variations on Pinterest. I think the original idea came from the Free People blog which is worth looking at. I had these animals...
Last fall when I heard about the Ice Bucket Challenge I claimed to have felt bullied into donating since I didn’t want to make a spectacle of myself on Facebook....
After 20 years in the Castro, my dad decided to leave for a flatter, easier life. St. Allison met me in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago to help...
We braced ourselves for the start of kinder this year. After all, we knew how pre-school had gone two years prior. She only cried every day for 1.5 years of...
It’s getting HOT and making pasta every night is killing me. I’ve been trying to branch out to more salads now that it’s summer. This is a really tasty dish...
Who says TV isn’t educational? Maddie learned these faces after watching “Yo Gabba Gabba” 5,000,000 times.
Maddie can count (with a little help)
Maddie likes to use a pin’t (what you call a pen.) Only she likes to use it anywhere but on paper. Auto-tattooing ranks high on her list of fave spots.
We thought taking Maddie & Root Beer up to The Capri Hotel in Ojai was a no brainer: warm weather, a grass dog yard, two pools, what more could you want? WRONG. Maddie found the unheated pool to be too “hot,” the crib apparently uncomfortable. Why else would she awake shrieking every 15 minutes? Maddie can’t be blamed for everything as the weekend started out rough when G worked from about 10AM Friday until 5:30AM Saturday. Let’s just say he wasn’t in tip top shape for the trip.