So here’s the story. I decided to get out of the office on Saturday afternoon and do some work from a nice little coffee shop, Cafe Ipe, a new place down on Highway 101. It’s nice, friendly, bright and welcoming. My good friend Cristina let me in on the secret a few weeks ago, and [...]

I’m a food guy, so photographing kitchens, chefs, and cooking themes are a real joy for me. There are very few things I won’t eat, and I appreciate it when someone shows me exciting ways to enjoy the things I should eat. Julie Frans is a local chef here in San Diego. She runs Dining [...]

Heather Hernandez-Reja is a local yoga instructor here, and one of the classes she teaches is a type of baby yoga. Now, most of us know what yoga is, at least in a general sense, but what I had never heard of until recently is this. Actually, the baby yoga class is an engaging and [...]

Yes, it’s even on his business cards. I’m not even sure how many people know his real name. He’s a fixture here in Encinitas, and he’s been our neighbor since we bought our home a little over seven years ago. He just turned 85. He and his wife still drive to their other house in [...]

After some anticipation, the ArtSplash party happened on Sunday, where we premiered the time lapse video of the Studio 2 piece “Alice in Wonderland” by Ron Juncal and Phyllis Swanson. So here it is! This is about 9,000 frames over the course of two and a half days. One frame every ten seconds. The rough [...]

Every so often Jessica books this exotic animal show for the library auditorium. They bring a variety of animals from around the world and do a little educational show. This year there was a huge carrion eating lizard from South America, a parrot, a type of African hedgehog, a huge albino boa, a super cuddly [...]

Sometimes it’s just about going out and having fun. These guys really got that part. I stopped by Swami’s to check the surf during lunch a few days back and was rewarded with some interesting characters being well…interesting! This is a little plastic luge, and they were getting easily 20mph on it. They kept crashing [...]

This is from a city wide publication promoting the Carlsbad City website, and it’s huge range of services, including a complete online catalog of everything the library system has to offer. That’s impressive.

Something that I have wanted to do for some time now is to do some pro bono work and actually plan it into my schedule on a manageable basis. Officially, I will be dedicating up to two sessions a month (about two hours each) to local non-profit work *. So, first in a series, this [...]