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Our trip was the perfect blend of time with friends and time with Adam, exploring, eating, laughing, and relaxing. We were in the Bay Area for 4 full days with 2 days tacked on for travel. Our hotel was in Oakland and the room was overlooking the bay (and I-80, but that’s a minor detail). [...]

Yesterday, at the biannual Drake Relays meeting of the Jr. NAC, I had an epiphany: I am an entrepreneur. To be honest, I didn’t wake up one day and decide I wanted to work from home. I really liked my job in corporate America. I was doing what I loved, working in magazines, with a [...]

“Wine is sunlight held together by water.”
This is a great movie (recommended by our friends Nate and Sarah who are heading for an extended stay in San Francisco) about how Napa Valley and California wine became world-renowned in the 1970s. I’m thinking it’s a good thing we watched it after our trip to California [...]

I wrote an article about the impact media has on relationships for Radiant Magazine (a magazine for modern Christian women, published by Relevant Media Group) almost 2 years ago. It was scheduled to run in the print edition of the magazine, and then the magazine folded. The website was relaunched and I contacted the online [...]

Adam and I have always enjoyed exploring new cities together. With friends and family living all over the country we are usually able to find someone to visit on our trips or at least to recommend places to stay, eat, and shop. This trip was no exception. We flew in SFO at 11pm and immediately [...]