Okay, well I don’t want to develop a reputation for thinking that I invented terms that I didn’t.  But this term I think I really did invent!  This species of person is found mostly in Berkeley and they like to plaster what they think on their car in cute little catchphrases. They are typically people [...]

I have been going through a bit of a gluttonous stage lately.  For me this translates into starting new projects that I am excited about, planning trips and spending money on pampering things.  It is hard for me to go to these decadent places without harboring some guilt.  It feels good, but I am not [...]

The story actually begins February 22, 2006, but I really didn’t want to ruin such a great title by being picky.  It begins with the day I received a GPS for my birthday and became a geocacher. As a geocacher, I became obsessed with the idea of leaving no cache unfound.  I couldn’t consider passing [...]

At the end of May, I put out a call to my friends asking about cheap vacation rentals. M-, who we had met through our agencies trainings hooked us up with two people that were willing to loan us their vacation houses(!). So last week, we spent up in Groveland with the dogs on retreat. [...]

J-, the dogs and I just went to Blackstone Canyon in Marin.  It was so spectacular, it was the most waterfalls that I had ever seen in California. They were pretty small, but absolutely gorgeous.  The trees were totally covered in green moss.  I was blown away from beginning to end.  More good news is [...]

Some friends and I went out to the Santa Cruz Mountains for a 13 mile hike on Sunday. The hike is well known in two forms as a 2-3 day hike called Skyline-to-the-Sea or a one day BBHQ-to-the-sea. The latter version involves dropping a car at the Ocean and hiking down to the [...]