Designer dog: $2,500, check … “Juicy” dog sweater: $45, check … Leather collar with matching leash from Muttropolis: $130, check … Dog tag to identify your dog in case she gets lost: $5, but wait…ummm, can’t find it. I was shopping with my family at The Spectrum one night and we eyed this adorable teacup […]
Corey Perry Fights Robots
(Photo by me.) Yikes! Almost a week since posting. I’ve been busy and as you can see from the picture above there’s another Anaheim Ducks story coming your way. But, it’s a good one I think and even if you’re not a hockey fan, which odds are, you’re probably not, you might enjoy this. […]
Friday Five: 5 Things You Must Do/Eat/See at the OC Fair This Year
We are a fair family. At least ONCE every summer since my kids were born we hit the OC Fair. We have built years of memories and now we have added new ones with our new family — including my stepkids and their dad into our tradition. We got to the OC Fair the first […]
Ten Tips for Staying at the Crystal Cove Cottages
Our family has been trying to snag a coveted cottage at Crystal Cove for over two years. Booking one of these historic homes turns out to be a mix of planning, persistence and dumb luck. Over the Christmas break we were able to stay at Cottage #19A with friends staying in two other cottages. Now […]
FYI: iPhones don’t float
It was just a quick exchange. I was at a restaurant on the border of Nevada and California dropping off my kids with my parents, who live in the Silver State. They were taking them and my brother’s son for a week to do whatever grandparents do with their grandkids when their parents aren’t around. […]
Thanks for the memories, Ruby
I was saddened to hear the news yesterday that Ruby’s Diner namesake and heart & soul “Ruby” had passed away. This was posted on the Ruby’s Diner’s Facebook page: It is with heavy hearts that we share this sad news. Ruby Cavanaugh, our beloved inspiration, passed away Sunday, December 27th at the age of 93. […]
Where have all the cowboys gone?
I noticed these “fellas” years ago at a friend’s party. These compadres truly adored their smartphones. They shined them. They held them up to the light. They showed them off to each other and wore them on their hip like a trusted six- shooter. I recall a party I attended when all the men […]
Hometown Stay at the Hyatt Huntington Beach
You’ve probably heard the famous quote about traveling attributed to St. Augustine: “The world is a book, and those who do not travel only read one page.” I then suppose that my kids and I traveling 17 miles from Orange to my hometown of Huntington Beach to stay at the Hyatt Regency would be like […]
Basking in the beauty at the Beachcomber Cafe in Crystal Cove
I don’t know how it its that I’ve never eaten at The Beachcomber Cafe. It’s so quintessential Orange County that it seems like every citizen of this county has had to have dined there, at least once. With fresh food and unique cocktails the cafe has quickly become one of my favorite haunts. The open-air […]
Good Morning, Gertrude.
Every morning I see her. She is as consistent as Al Roker’s silly jokes and my son’s breakfast choice (always oatmeal). When I moved into my neighborhood in Orange two and a half years ago she was the first person I met. Her name is Gertrude* and she is in her nineties. Her constant […]
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