I am writing this column as the death toll from COVID-19 reaches 120,000 in our country. But even in the face of this unprecedented loss of life, the number one issue on […]

A while back, I was talking to a client who had just lost 100 pounds. As we were chatting about his own fitness journey, he kept saying, “If you saw me at […]

When confronted with the brutal truth that some lives haven’t mattered as much as other lives in our own estimation, in our own institutions, in our own city of San Pedro, and […]

Raising children in an oceanfront port town has its perks, one being it is home to the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium. My children’s lives have been enhanced by years of visits to the […]

In our culture of immediate gratification and constant stimulation, our attention spans – even in the face of a global pandemic – have a shelf life of two months. After being bombarded […]

My oldest son is learning to drive. I am seeing San Pedro through new eyes as a passenger and not a mom who has spent years shuffling kids around. With less traffic, […]

One evening, my phone buzzed. It was a text from a friend and longtime client, and she was ecstatic. “Been taking pics of myself every Friday from the front and back. OMG, […]

 “Should” and “shouldn’t” is a softer version of “shalt” and “shalt not.” Religious people of every faith, and the irreligious too, all have a list of shalts and shalt nots. Thou shalt […]

Never in my life did I imagine that we would be living in a time of a pandemic where the term “social distancing” would become the norm and that the country would […]

In a lockdown state, county and city, it’s important to give the current crisis some historical perspective.  I was researching soldiers from San Pedro who died in World War I when COVID-19 […]