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I HAD A FULL EVENING THAT FRIDAY NIGHT IN OAKLAND, filled with eating sushi, hip hop clubbing and late conversation with my girlfriends. After all was said and done, I finally hit the pillow around 2:30am and was ready to dream. I was exhausted from the long work week and had pushed myself to go out that night. I figured- no worries- for I had my entire Saturday to sleep in, lounge around the apartment, doodle on my smart phone, relax, and finally get some writing done. Or so I thought. The next morning at approximately 8am, I woke up to the sounds of beeping construction trucks and busy maintenance workers speaking in Spanish while drilling into the street's pavement directly outside my bedroom window. If the sunshine of the predicted 90 degree weather forecasted for ... read more

They say the road to Bolinas is paved with good intentions. This is probably because you will need them in order to locate this quirky little town that's tucked away among the outskirts of Marin County where all the directional road signs have gone missing. While in search of buried treasure, (and by treasure, I mean seashells), what started out as a last minute day trip that one fateful Sunday afternoon, became more of a real life treasure hunt. I really would need a secret map if I was to ever find the elusive "Bolinas Lagoon" that was listed as #10 in the "Top 10 Places to Beachcomb in the Nation", according to some article I found online that dated back to 2007. After a failed attempt at sea-shelling on the south side of Stinson Beach ... read more

Back in March, I learned that I needed to write a bucket list. "50 things that I wanted to do before I die", and one of them had to happen by March 17th. It was all part of an exercise for a class I was taking at my church titled, "Emerge: Claim Your Creativity" Reaching the given deadlne presented a challenge since most of my bucket list consisted of goals such as, "Go to Denmark" and/or "Go to France". I was pretty much just naming countries. How was I going to get to Europe and back by the 17th of March? So I put in a call for help to one of the teachers. She, herself, was going to "ride a mechanical bull", before the 17th, so that put it all in perspective. I realized I ... read more