2022 Goals

2021 Goals

Write one blog post per month (I fail at 2 every year, so dialing it back) Read one book per month FaceTime Baker once/week Snowboard somewhere new (making up for a lost 2020 season: Taos Ski Valley, Sun Valley, Mount Baker, Big Sky) Visit a new national park (North Cascades 2x, and returned to Olympic) Climb

West Coast Road Trip

In October 2019, I embarked on the road trip of a lifetime down the West Coast highways from the tip of Oregon to Southern California. I had made the drive from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, and even San Simeon, many times in my 12 years as a California resident, but I had never driven

2020 Goals

Write two blog posts per month Read one book per month FaceTime Baker once/week (now that he’s getting older, this is more important and may be easier) Snowboard somewhere new (because the universe canceled the Swiss Alps and Revelstoke, Alpental was my only new mountain) Visit a new national park (Mount Rainier, North Cascades) Climb

Local 360’s Mac & Cheese

Boasting Tillamook and Beecher’s cheeses (plus Dinah’s from Kurtwood Farms) I expected an amazing mac ‘n’ cheese but unfortunately this one fell short. The serving size was good for sharing across a few people who order entrees. It’s enough for one person as an entree itself, but I wouldn’t recommend it just based on my

2018: The year of the burbs

Anyone who knows me knows my strong feelings about suburbs versus urban city centers. And anyone who knows me also knows that my avoidance of the former (unfortunately most of my close friends in SoCal moved to the burbs with their families) and search for the latter are why I left Santa Monica in November

Seattle: Week 9

Day 63: Considering it’s been two weeks since I’ve written, you’d think that I’m off doing exciting things. That’s only partly true; I’ve just also been really busy with a freelance project that was due last week and consistent nannying gigs. A few notable items from the past two weeks: I joined a flag football

Seattle: Week 7

Day 43: Soooo I missed a week of blogging cuz I was deep in magazine deadlines. Mostly met my deadlines, and even got a day of snowboarding in. Today was a looong day watching two energetic toddlers while their parents packed up a moving truck. Fortunately the weather was really nice so we could walk

Seattle: Week 5

Day 29: Got up early to run in Seattle’s 35th annual St. Patrick’s Day Dash. I guess it’s the first fun run to ever run the Seattle viaduct — the one I ran on in January before they started tearing it down. Unfortunately I didn’t bring money or an ID with me, so I couldn’t

Seattle: Week 4

Day 22: I flew in late last night and spend the first night in my new apartment. My roommate Laura had borrowed an air mattress from her friend and pumped it up in my room for me – beats a hard floor or camping mat. Woke up to sunshine and beautiful views from our apartment