When Russel and I first got married, he took me to Rancho La Puerta, the famed Wellness Resort and Spa in northern Baja California, Mexico. He’d been invited to do a presentation—he was still making his […]

I loved Port Townsend the first minute I set foot in it. Part of that might have been the hype that came from decades of hearing about this waterfront town that celebrates wooden boats and boat building […]

Right after the recent presidential election, Russel and I started talking about Baja California, the city of La Paz, specifically. “Remember the open market?” one of us would say, while we shopped. “I could use […]

In the late 1960s, one of the hippest places in Los Angeles was Venice, especially the area known simply as “The Canals.” Small wooden houses fronted on the waterways and backed on narrow alley-like streets. […]

When Russel and I got married, there weren’t many big things we didn’t know about each other. We’d known each other for 14 years before we got hitched, after all, and though we’d only dated […]