Who knows when we’ll be back riding the trails of Annadel State Park again, so I wanted to document the kids descending their favorite South […]
Author: Sam
Endurance
Endurance, Alfred Lansing A fantastic story of adventure, courage and survival. I stayed up until midnight too many nights, unable to put this thing down! […]
Halloween-And-A-Half
Who says you can’t have Halloween more than once a year?!
Mission Basilica San Buenaventura
Lilia’s fourth grade mission project is finally done!
Ocean Breeze Dairy Tour
Adventures with Sam and Jarrid are always the best!
Last Mendocino Ride
The kids asked to ride JDSF one last time, I’m definitely not going to argue with a request like that. It was pouring with rain […]
Goodbye 2021 Ski Season!
Lisa was off on a girls’ weekend so the kids and I headed up for one last ski of the 2021 season (and I really […]
The Coddling of the American Mind
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff Quite […]
Happy Easter!
Getting ready for the egg hunt tomorrow morning
Mammoth and June Mountain Spring Break
Last year for spring break our ski week in Utah with the Munselles was well and truly jettisoned by the onset of COVID in the […]
Cork Dork
Cork Dork, Bianca Bosker Goodreads: For readers of Anthony Bourdain, Susan Orlean, and Mary Roach, a surprising, entertaining and hilarious journey through the world of […]
Should I Be Tested for Cancer?
Should I Be Tested for Cancer, H. Gilbert Welch Goodreads: Getting tested to detect cancer early is one of the best ways to stay healthy—or […]
Riding Ross with The Professor
Kids had a student-free day today, so we headed back to our old digs in Marin to ride Ross with Sam Olesky…
Tahoe School Week
Back in November when we figured we were going to be doing this COVID-induced remote schooling for the long haul, Lance proposed doing a week […]
Spring Skiing in Mid-January
Some crazy-warm temperatures for mid-January, but plenty of cover up there so we’ll take it!
Heartland
Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth, Sarah Smarsh Goodreads: During Sarah Smarsh’s turbulent childhood in Kansas […]
Christmas in Summit County
After a pretty magic week cutting up the slopes of Steamboat Springs, we headed back towards Denver to Summit County. The last time I’d visited […]
Steamboat Springs
We were checked into our flights to Colorado and standing outside at Oakland International Airport – trying to minimize our time indoors – when my […]
Alexander Valley School Christmas
Sadly no AVS Christmas performance this year, but COVID couldn’t stop our little pod celebrating the season with Mexican hot chocolate, making farolitos and exchanging […]
Mendocino Weekend
Everyone needed to get out of the house, so we scooted over to Mendo for a couple of days this weekend to enjoy the mild […]