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 […]
In the midst of these uncharted waters where we are trying to work from home, keep our jobs/businesses intact, homeschool our children, and keep some sense of sanity in place, it is […]
For weeks on end, we read and heard about the toll of COVID-19, all while wearing masks and gloves and standing in line staring at empty store shelves. It all seemed to […]
Over the past weeks, we’ve all wondered when we’ll “get back to normal,” to life as it was before COVID-19. At the same time, some question whether we should settle for the […]
It was a couple of years ago when I tried to convince my dad to try Meals on Wheels. He was not fond of the idea at first. He had macular degeneration […]