Wine Country Shenanigans

I just came home last night from a two-day off-site in Napa Valley for work. They planned an “Amazing Race” event for us where we ended up scurrying around Napa Valley and its surrounding towns like maniacs trying to solve puzzles and overcome obstacles with alacrity and enthusiasm. My team came in at seventh. Out […]

Santa Cruz Life – Summer Living

It’s been a while. Hello, Internet! Hello, summer! A couple posts back, I announced that I had received a job offer. Then I promptly fell off the face of the planet. My Instagram account has remained fairly active, but the number of posts subsided, and my online presence at home took a deep dive. Let […]

Dreaming of the Summer; Big Sur, California

No, those are not ants struggling in the water. Although I definitely thought they were when I first looked down the side of the cliff and saw little dots floating on the clear, crystalline blue Pacific Ocean. No, not ants at all. They’re surfers! As I clutch at my rapidly cooling coffee, my mind has […]

It’s a Beachin’ Life at Stinson Beach

Something about writing in the deep of the night elicits emotions and thoughts from the far recesses of my brain. It’s at these time that I feel most alone. When it’s just me and my words competing in a staring contest, and the words are winning. When the clock strikes midnight, my mind suddenly transports […]

Exploring the Marin Headlands

Let me just put this out there. Selfies. Are ridiculous. Now, I appreciate the occasional good selfie, but when people are hanging out the sunroof of a car while driving along a road in order to get a selfie with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background—well, that’s just dumb. I prefer, instead, to jostle […]

Road Trip Down the California Coast; Birthday Shenanigans (Pt. II)

How does the saying go? Something about how it’s all about the travel and not the destination, right? Well sometimes, the destination is also ridiculously fabulous and worth just as much time enjoying. Especially if you can pretend that you’re living in the lap of 1800’s luxury. Ah, to spend a day in the shoes […]

Road Trip Down the California Coast; Birthday Shenanigans (Pt. I)

If you ask my friends, they would tell you that I have a tendency to over-celebrate my birthday. Celebrations can last a week, with food and libations, of course. From the end of September to the days leading up to Halloween, I call my friends out to have dinner and lunch and coffee. Narcissistic much? […]

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year, folks. Here’s to 2015 being a helluva lot better than 2014. (Above is a little sneak peak at an upcoming post about our trip down the Pacific Coastline earlier this year.)

(T-Minus 3) A Thankful Ten Days Before Christmas: Traveling

Ever since I was an infant, I have been traveling. My mother managed to haul me and two suitcases full of necessities to Asia before I turned one. Since then, between moving all over the country with my parents, I consistently returned to Asia every few years to visit my parents’ families. That’s probably where […]

(T-Minus 6) A Thankful Ten Days Before Christmas: This Guy (and Sunsets and Stuff)

He’s in my shot. Again. Whatta jerk. I am kidding, of course. Sort of. No, really. I am. He actually messaged me last night and asked when I was going to get to the “people” part of my 10 days of Christmas thankfulness. Pish posh! So impatient! Day -6: I am thankful for this guy […]