Afternoon brought a cold drizzle. I knew it was coming from the conversation I had on the phone earlier that morning. B-Rad had informed me of the nasty, freezing mist that had fallen upon his...

With a quick, junky session under my belt at Surf Beach in Lompoc, my Turkey Mutilation Day started off perfectly! Blueberry-walnut-cinnamon pancakes with some tofu sausage was my morning fare, and...

It's funny, getting older. Priorities change. Classifying order of importance becomes based on the truisms of standard cultural dictation: the job, house, mortgage, wife, kids, car payments,...

Way back in the day it was not uncommon for a group of us to charge up to Bolinas Ridge for a sunset salutation. When I moved from the Bay Area to attend college at UCSB I feared that......

Walking. Just letting feet take me away, out the door, up the trail, into bliss. Mt. Tamalpais State Park is like one gigantic backyard for the generations who are raised in Marin County. We had...

Mount Tamalpais is a glorious little mountain. It contains so many trails, so many vistas, so many opportunities for losing yourself in the embrace of the natural world. One of my favorite nooks of...

Back to the passion that drives me: wave hunting, catching and riding! Finding the right spot and right time to get into this passion can be an unnerving task in southern California. There are more...

The last native speaker of the Chumash language died in 1965. Were he alive today, what kind of stories could that man have told? What horrifying memories could he recount of the total devastation of...

I let everyone go past me and sat in silence for a moment. Then I closed my eyes and opened them slowly. Amidst the shaded woodlands of Bay, Laurel, Oak and Sycamore trees, there must have been a...

A good friend calls the place "Teardrop". I wondered why, but in my head I imagined a place with beautiful little waterfalls dripping like tears from the rocks. On a quintessentially...

Well I guess the Santa Cruz west side posse can't continue to dub the Coldwater Classic in Santa Cruz the "Flat Water" Classic. This annual professional surfing contest is held in...

It's Beach. How does a place get a name like that? It's Beach has so many memories for me. Anyone who attended the fine University Of California at Santa Cruz and is proud enough to call...