At the end of each year, I’m usually out of breath from a full schedule of travel, work, and family. While 2025 included plenty of stressful ...

The first months of the year have zoomed past, and here I am, catching my breath. It seems that my travel schedule fills up more and ...

A few years ago, I started giving myself time off from around mid-December until about the second week of January. I’m not always good at slowing ...

Thanks to those of you who have purchased my recent book, San Francisco Scavenger, and used it to learn a little history and solve the clues ...

As I take a brief break from my travels this year, I realize I haven’t sent an update on my work. One of my greatest challenges ...

In the past couple years, I’ve worked on three book projects, all of which were published in 2023. I co-authored Gordon Ramsay’s Uncharted: A Culinary Adventure ...

One thing I started just before the pandemic, in early 2020, was to reframe the kinds of stories I wrote about. It was always flattering when ...

How are you holding up? We're eight months into the pandemic in the United States, and many aspects of our lives have slowed down and changed ...

As quickly as it came, summer’s nearly gone. While I’d love to say I’m finally coming up for air from a hectic period of writing and ...

Summer Solstice was just yesterday, and yet it feels as if it's been summer for a while now. At least, I've been celebrating the longer days. ...

An article I wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle in December 2017 has recently won a couple of writing awards! Quest for the Gray Ghost: Tracking ...

While we may enjoy celebrating the accomplishments of badass outdoor athletes, the majority of us have smaller (but no less important) successes. And it’s those things—whether ...

Well, not yet. I have one last ski trip planned, and then I can embrace my favorite season. After a few ski trips in Japan, Canada, ...

It's a question regularly asked of working women. "How do you balance your work and life?" The simple answer is that you don't. Instead of doing ...