Although I wanted him to be brave, part of me pictured his hands losing grip on the rope suspended to the branch above his head and his little body landing with a dull thud onto the sharp rocks. Besides our screams of terrified excitement, Gull Lake was relatively...
OK, it wasn’t that bad. I had been dreading it. I travel a lot for work and live 40 miles from Los Angeles International Airport, aka LAX. 40 miles can translate anywhere between 40 minutes to two hours to drive to either destination. Life revolves around traffic in...
This is the story of my family’s journey through Russia, the Soviet regime and escape into the New World. In 2019, I became a member of the honorable writing organization, Society of American Travel Writers or SATW. These are a group of accomplished and talented...
Until recently, Irvine, California has only existed as a blip on our family road-trip map – between the freeway drive from Los Angeles to San Diego. We’d see high-rise buildings, malls and hotels whiz by. Nothing to draw us in. Nothing to motivate us to...
There’s nothing that can bring you deeper into the pages of a romantic fairy tale than gazing across an expansive field, jagged roots twisting along grape vines, the sun dangling over the horizon, as you savor and swirl a red, white or rose hue casting its shade...
