Post and photos contributed by Lisa Dion Every year for the past several, our family meets to camp with a posse of others that we’ve known since my daughter Parker was in preschool. We secure the same sites at Butano State Park in Pescadero in a protected bowl of trees down the hill from […]
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We all met up to create our costumes at about 11:30pm at a friend’s apartment in San Francisco. We were assembling our superhero costumes for the weekend’s bike trip from San Francisco to Santa Cruz: 4 women, 4 superhero costumes, and about 80 miles on Highway 1 in Northern California. After constructing our capes and
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Three years ago I inaccurately considered myself a hearty and healthy 47 year old mom of three almost adult boys. My “to do list” consisted largely of items to be done for my family, very low on the list was time spent on me. I had no time to be ill or lame. Life marched
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Congratulations! Your photograph has been selected as part of the iPhone World Gallery! That’s the e-mail I received from Apple announcing that I was chosen for World Gallery and that my photo would appear on a billboard. As a travel writer and freelance photographer, this validation of my work from such a powerful high technology
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I first learned about SlipIns SurfSkins & GymSkins during a visit to Conejo Valley, California. A friend’s mom had invented a waterproof unitard that was designed to be worn under wetsuits, thus the ability to “slip in” and serve as a second skin between the body and the wetsuit. I thought this was a clever
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When I told some friends in Northern California that I was headed to visit Conejo Valley for a few days, only one person new the area. However, if I said I was going to visit Agoura Hills, Simi Valley or Thousand Oaks by the Santa Monica Mountains, everyone knew where I was headed. I confess
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