Best Family Adventures

11/07/2024

Look what's brand new at Port San Luis SportLaunch! Congrats to uber-local Em and Vincent Shay on this new adventure. They know these waters and have a LONG time respect for wildlife here. I can't WAIT to get out with them!

04/06/2024

Y'all know I lead a pretty strange life full of eclectic activities, but my primary professional gig has been, since the 1980s, journalism. I was a full-time staffer until 2000, and won my share of honors and awards back then. I've been writing freelance on the regular ever since.

It's been a long time since an editor entered my work in any contest. (Reporters typically don't get to nominate themselves.) What an honor to have my work selected not only by my editor, Marga Kellogg Cooley of Santa Maria Times, but also to have been selected as a top-five finalist in not one but three categories!

(Thanks, Rick Jackoway, for entering my work years ago as a freelancer at SLO New Times. We took top honors back then.)

2023 CALIFORNIA JOURNALISM AWARDS FINALISTS (in alphabetical order) The following list represents the top finalists across various categories and divisions

20/04/2024

Well, RIP Facebook. There’s no search anymore, just the AI assist. I was looking for a post by a friend about a recently dearly departed mutual friend. Instead, the AI messaged me the definition of his last name five minutes later. It’s been fun, a time suck, and now I think I’ll wean myself away. I like to see what my friends and fam are doing, but fewer and fewer share anything but memes. Time to go back to email, phone, in-person or just solo life on the farm.

29/02/2024

Fun things to come in my hometown!

Concerts in the Plaza 2024 💖 Downtown San Luis Obispo

💖 Every Friday, June 21 – September 6, 2024
⏱ Opening Act 5 PM; Main Act 6–8 PM
📍 Mission Plaza, Downtown San Luis Obispo
➡️ DowntownSLO.com/Concerts
🪶Poster artwork by Alli Feigin

Will we see you there? 👀

28/02/2024

We need a lot more of this on the Central Coast. Wheelchair basketball, tennis, baseball and more are actual things. Where are they in SLO/SB Counties?

It’s the first year of the Pioneer Valley Unified Track and Field team that allows students from the high school with disabilities to compete, learn a new sport and have fun.

22/02/2024

A writers' workshop offered by our library for teens. Hosted by a published author with a track record of rad research projects. Send in the teens!

22/02/2024

Like what you see here? Want to find new, interesting, adventuresome places to go with (or without) the kids? Please pick up your copy of "Best Family Adventures: San Luis Obispo County," created, written, designed and researched by SLO County natives, at Boo Boo Records or The Mountain Air or anywhere books are sold in SLO County. (If they don't have it, send 'em our way and we'll restock them.)