Yep, I love a good Yankee Candle, but given my inability to follow the most basic fire safety rules and the budget restrictions heartlessly placed on me by my husband, I really shouldn’t be buying them at all. I do, now and then, take a trip to this nifty little place called T.J. Maxx Home […]
Mom, you can let go now
This was a big summer for Emily, my nine-year old daughter. There were a lot of firsts, but the biggest first by far is letting her go with her brother outside to play by themselves. This is the kind of thing that if you were to go back in a time machine to the […]
The Curious Pair
This is my column in this month’s OC Family out today. I always wonder how other couples’ relationships work–what they talk about, if they brush their teeth side-by-side in the mirror every morning, how they decide on big-ticket items. It’s the little things couples do in public that make me stare and stand too close, […]
Put down the Purell and go see the movie ‘Babies’
Babies are resilient. Babies are tough. Babies have a wicked sense of humor. Babies can spend the first year of their life licking dirt, spending time unsupervised, and cuddling with cows and still enter into the toddler stage healthy and happy. These are all things I learned after watching the brilliant documentary “Babies.” […]
The Story of the Disneyland Corn Dog
I don’t know about you, but I go back and forth. Sometimes I think life is all about “The Big Picture” things. Reaching for our dreams. Setting goals then achieving them. The biggies: Births; Marriages; Deaths. Then, sometimes I think life if all about the outtake. Life’s small pleasures. Sometimes, especially when I’m really hungry, […]
Keeping it in Perspective
Here’s my post featured in this month’s issue of OC Family Magazine: There are a few sure signs that you have entered the land of grown-ups– paying taxes; treating your parents’ to an expensive, swanky dinner; or even listening to Neil Diamond without shame. But, you know what really makes you feel […]
Snapped; The Mommy Edition
Scene: Dive bar just outside Orange County. It was a hot day. Too hot to be inside, still I walked into the dark barroom quickly and with great expectations. The sun filtered in through the dirt and bumper stickers on the window and the light illuminated all the dust particles in the dead bar […]
New video plus, how much do you know about Children’s Hospital of Orange County?
I’m putting a lot of work recently into my videos for OC Family and I’m having a blast making them and I’m getting to meet some incredible Orange County people in the process. In this new one from CHOC Night at the Honda Center I worked with the ever-patient Bryce from Post Fifth Pictures for the new […]
Reading at BlogUp tonight! “Learning to try”
I’ll be reading this post tonight at the small theatre in Anaheim Hills for BlogUP. There’s still room if you want to come to the show. About fifteen minutes before this breathtaking sunset, I stood next to three people at the bottom of a small hill in Laguna Beach. It was an older couple–same age […]
The Kite Song
This is a kite that waved and the confetti that floated above Disneyland’s Main Street during a ceremony for two Disney legends– Richard and Robert Sherman. Two pretty remarkable men you’ve probably never heard of, but who wrote the soundtrack to many of your childhood memories. You can read my full story here. ***** While […]
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