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At Long Last, American Girl Place Comes to Northern California

February 14, 2013

Mothers with young daughters from San Francisco to San Jose have been buzzing with excitement over the news of Stanford Shopping Center’s latest tenant:  American Girl Place.  The company behind the wildly popular line of 18-inch historical and look-alike dolls will be opening their newest retail store in Fall 2013. American Girl first appeared on [...]

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Taking Back Thanksgiving

November 20, 2012

Quick, what’s missing from this photo of a Nordstrom store interior?  You’ve got the gorgeous merchandise, well-heeled shoppers, helpful salespeople.  The only thing conspicuous by its absence — especially the week before Thanksgiving — is the absence of any holiday decorations. Last week I came across a Facebook photo of a sign that was supposedly [...]

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Brave the Crowds for the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival

October 1, 2012

Now that fall is here, pumpkins are appearing in every porch and doorway, and farms up and down Silicon Valley (not to mention a good many parking lots) are bursting with bright orange pumpkins for sale. If you like pumpkins, there’s no better place in October to go than the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival, [...]

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America’s Cup World Series comes to the San Francisco Bay

September 19, 2012

Without a doubt, one of the prettiest sights in the Bay Area is a fleet of sailboats making their way underneath the Golden Gate Bridge on a sunny day. San Francisco residents and visitors will be treated to quite a few pretty sights in the next 12 months as the America’s Cup, the oldest trophy [...]

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Celebrate Outdoor Play at the CLIF Kid Backyard Game of the Year Playoffs

June 27, 2012

Each week, kids spend 56% more time in front of a screen than they do engaged in outdoor play.*  It’s a sad statistic — and what’s even sadder is that it’s probably true for most families I know, including mine.  We own 3 tv’s, 2 desktops, 2 laptops, 2 tablets, 4 smartphones, and 4 handheld [...]

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Preparing for a Pet at the Humane Society of Silicon Valley

May 30, 2012

My kids have been begging for a pet for years, but we’ve told them time and time again that there’s just no room in our house, or our lifestyle, for a dog or a cat right now. When we visit grandparents in the summer, we’re gone for months at a time, and that’s just too [...]

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The Golden Gate Bridge: Celebrating 75 years

May 23, 2012

I doubt that anyone could imagine San Francisco without its iconic landmark, the Golden Gate Bridge. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, it’s one of the “Seven Engineering Wonders of the Modern World.” It’s one of the most beautiful bridges in the world, probably the most photographed, and after one glance at the [...]

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Getting your soccer fix in Silicon Valley — the San Jose Earthquakes

March 19, 2012

Our family is soccer mad.  My husband grew up in the UK, where soccer (or football, as it’s more commonly known) is the national pastime, and he carried his love of the sport halfway across the world when he moved to the Silicon Valley.  I had always been mildly interested in soccer, especially when the [...]

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San Francisco Symphony: Introducing Classical Music to a New Generation

February 28, 2012

These days, many kids grow up with the notion that classical music puts people to sleep.  It doesn’t have lyrics.  It doesn’t have a beat.  It’s played on clunky old instruments. And it was written by a bunch of white guys who have been dead for centuries. Fortunately for the kids in Silicon Valley, we’ve [...]

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Where’s the snow?

January 18, 2012

When the winter months arrive, many Bay Area families look forward to a trip or two to the Lake Tahoe area for some skiing, snowboarding, sledding and other forms of snowy fun. This year, though, Tahoe has been experiencing a record dry spell, with authorities actually issuing wildfire warnings in January.  It hasn’t really snowed [...]

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