From the monthly archives:

July 2011

Sea Creatures and Stay-At-Home-Dads: The Secret Lives of Seahorses at the Monterey Bay Aquarium

July 27, 2011

It has been a few years since we’ve been to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, but we’ve been there so many times I feel as if we know all the exhibits by heart.  This weekend we visited the aquarium for the first time since 2008, and thanks to one of their newer exhibits, The Secret Lives [...]

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Best Guilty Pleasures: Hair Bands and Fake Cheese

July 25, 2011

We’ve got to hold on to what we’ve got.  It doesn’t make a difference if we make it or not. We’ve got each other and that’s a lot.  For love, we’ll give it a shot. Fun and all, but heeere’s the kicker:  OHHH-OHHHH we’re half way there! OHHH-OHHHH livin’ on a prayer! Embarassing but true [...]

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Fort Point: A Fun, Free History Lesson (with Cannons!)

July 22, 2011

Explore a Civil War-era fort, see the Golden Gate Bridge from underneath, and learn to load a cannon…all for free! We’ve driven over the Golden Gate Bridge hundreds of times, spent many fun afternoons and Crissy Field, but never have we ventured down the road a bit to Fort Point until this past weekend. Fort [...]

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Are You Friends With Your Babysitter on Facebook?

July 20, 2011

www.skinnyscoop.com Eva is our nanny.  Our beloved, trusted, don’t ever think of leaving us for another family, nanny.  We love her.  Our baby loves her. My 7 year old tries to make her his personal playmate whenever he’s home.  We were very lucky in our nanny search.  Eva is best friends with my (much younger) cousin.  She attended the [...]

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Are You Passionate About Your Job?

July 18, 2011

Whenever I go just about anywhere in Silicon Valley, I bump into people who are passionate about the work they are doing.  Spend a lunch hour in Calafia and you’ll hear the place abuzz with what may very well be the big next idea.  I am a Project Manager. Well, my official title is “Senior [...]

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San Francisco’s Ross is Better Than Ever

July 15, 2011

If we were on Foursquare, this would be me taking the Mayorship from my sister You know the Ross store on Market Street, across from the giant Old Navy? You’ve probably seen it, maybe even been in there. I hadn’t been in a few years until last night when I went to see the revamped [...]

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Do You Wax Above Your Eyebrows?

July 13, 2011

Today we ask an important question: do you wax the hairs immediately above your eyebrows? Respond honestly because I want to know if I’m the oddball here. www.skinnyscoop.com   The back story is that I ran into a friend just after getting my eyebrows waxed, when I was still at that stage where my skin [...]

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Kindles & Kids: Not Hauling a Suitcase of Books on Vacation

July 11, 2011

We have this tradition when traveling aimed at keeping the kids occupied. The night before we leave, they give me their backpacks, I quietly fill them with new books and a few snacks for the journey, but they cannot open the backpacks until once we’ve taken off, either by plane or car. We love this [...]

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Sharing a Hotel Room with Kids is No Vacation

July 8, 2011

Quickly I can name a handful of highlights of a recent family vacation. It was an amazing trip to Martha’s Vineyard, with stops in Boston, New Hampshire and Maine, leaving us with wonderful memories and beautiful photos. There were lowlights too, almost all involving shared hotel rooms with our kids. It’s no vacation when it [...]

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Discovering Henry Cowell State Park

July 6, 2011

It’s almost embarrassing to admit that I had never heard of Henry Cowell State Park until this past weekend.  Not that every Californian has to know every state park.  But I went to college at UC Santa Cruz.  The beautiful state park is in Felton – a stone’s throw away from where I lived for [...]

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