A few years ago, I was fed up with the guilt that I felt every time I turned down an invitation, missed a political event, a concert or a party.  But, I new that I wanted to invite focus and simplicity in my life.  I decided that I would rule out anything that fit into [...]

I have always been an outdoorsy type. My husband jokes that I am a lizard, because I am happiest basking out in the full sun.  The bay area is never warm enough for me  since I was meant for temperatures that were 80 degrees and over.  Some of the longest bike rides that I have [...]

After asking a few people and reading a lot of webpages about it, I decided to try and induce lactation. This is something that I had been considering for some time. I talked with a woman at a training who was getting small bits of milk and I knew that I wanted to try it.  [...]

I wasn’t actually sitting on the wall.  Honestly, I was trying to stand up there. On one foot. Okay, I was also jumping up and down in circles. It didn’t really work, so I did fall and the pieces were messy, messy pieces that looked and felt a lot like swine flu.
The magic tripod [...]

Foul Weather Friend definition from Urban Dictionary, Can you guess which one I am?
1.  The opposite of a fair-weather friend, a foul-weather friend only seeks you out if they have a problem, need a shoulder to cry on, a ride to town or someone to watch their dog, but otherwise they act as [...]

I got a credit card in high school because one of my friends told me that I should start working on my credit rating before I left home for college.  She was right, although maybe ahead of her time.  Actually getting the credit card gave me the opportunity to make up for the somewhat inadequate [...]

A good memoir should do at least one of two simple things: make me laugh or cry. A really good one may be able to do both. I would still consider recommending a memoir that does neither of these if it is an interesting story with good analysis. Unfortunately, Friedman’s book is [...]

I am really into intimacy.  I have plenty of friends that I have casual friends with that I see around, but my close friends are people that I can say anything to. And they can say anything to me.  And we do. I love to be up in people’s business and well, they don’t really [...]

Knowing Sarah
I met Sarah’s mom before I met Sarah.  We were at an earthquake preparedness meeting where we were discussing, as a community, how to be prepared and connected to people in our own neighborhoods and how to get in touch with people in other neighborhoods if lines of communication go down.  At that point, [...]

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 [...]