Have you ever really stepped out your front door with no destination? No plans of how to get there, what route, traffic, how long it will take, arrival time, do I have my keys, do I have my phone OH…
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Follow Your Nose
Posted in Parenting, San Diego Tagged with: biking, expeditions, follow your nose, number two, softball
I Was Born by the River, In a Little Tent…
…and ohhhh just like that river I’ve been runnin’ ever since. Sorry, got a bit of Sam Cooke in my head. If you’re interested, Seal does a fantastic cover of this song. People have been born by the calm waters…
Posted in Parenting, San Diego Tagged with: change is gonna come, everything tears, hiking, hiking with children, mission trails regional park, Sam Cooke, Seal, visitor center
The Sun Sets on the Year
By this time, unless you’re a horrible Grinch or slacker, you have some lights up, some decorations spattered on the door, and pine needles ground into your carpet. Maybe the cloying smell of paperwhites is filling a closet, or mulling…
How to Go for a Hike With Children
Hey all you logical people who put the day before the month: it’s still 11/11/13! Now that’s out of the way, let’s talk about taking two small children to the park for a “hike”. Is it possible? Define “hike”. If…
Almanac Beer: Honey Saison
This is a great time to be drinking beer. I don’t mean right now, in the morning, I mean this year. The United States is in the midst of a beer boom, with more micro-breweries popping up every day. And…
Fall Fashion is Here!
Earlier than Paris, earlier than Milan, earlier than New York, is the San Diego Fall Fashion Reveal on October 8. This year we’re happy to present the new theme: Exotic Riviera. Let’s set the scene: the engine of a glossy…
Posted in Events, Parenting, San Diego Tagged with: Chriscraft, clothing, fashion, Mediterranean, number two, riviera, sunglasses
Fall is Here?
According to the calendar, it is fall. According to store displays, it’s just about Christmas. According to what people are wearing, it’s still the middle of summer, at least here in San Diego. Global climate change deniers, sorry, but it…
Back to the Things That Matter
Periodically you have to shut off the glowing screens, break out from your patterns of eating, sleeping, working, cleaning, and remember the things that matter. For the last few days we’ve been lucky to have family from Portugal in town. …
Too Big to Understand
I’ve been thinking about issues of scale recently. I am working on a 10-story office building at work and when you’ve looked at lines on paper for a long time you forget about the massive scale of the real building. …
Posted in Parenting, San Diego Tagged with: locomotive, museum, number two, parenting, scale, titan, train, trucks
You are Young
Consider this, a sidewalk poured in 1927 on a small side street in San Diego: It runs up a steep hill and overlooks the harbor. Before Interstate 5 was built and the airport took such a chunk out of downtown…
