Tag Archives: Pacific Coast

The Sampling Santa Barbara Bit

So does this happen to you too?  Are there close by places – not necessarily bucket list-y ones, just cool sounding ones – that you mean to visit but you never seem to get to?  I lived in LA for more than 25 years before getting out to nearby Joshua Tree National Park. At least […]

‘Twas the Night Before Posting

Holiday greetings! For the eighth time, I’m wrapping up my blogging year with a poem in the form of that classic work, ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas! As ever, I hope you’ll enjoy! ’Twas a year of adjusting, of change and transition,Requiring profession and life expedition: Surveying the landscape as changes arose,Feeling both joy and […]

Pacific Coast: The Gifts from the Sea Bit

Okay, so full disclosure – the title for this post is a respectful nod to the 1955 book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea. In it, she shares essays about roles and relationships in the context of her era – and about life lessons combed from the beach of an island retreat. Of […]