Top Five Hikes in San Diego

In the days of corona virus, people around the world are itching to simply get outside of their house. Daydreaming about what hike to take next, I compiled my top five favorite hikes in San Diego and the surrounding areas. Sunset Cliffs Sunset cliffs is a beautiful winding hike above the waves in west of…

Five Ways to Reduce Energy at Home

Whether you’re looking to be more sustainable or simply trying to lower your monthly utility bills, you might be wondering how to reduce energy at home. Depending on location, you might have one bill or multiple, but your main public utility bills are typically electricity, natural gas, and water/sewer. There are countless ways to reduce…

How to Make Homemade Pasta

I had tried my hand at making homemade pasta a few times in the past, always ending up with sticky, dense, inedible doughy grossness. I swear I can follow recipes, but inevitably I would end up with a r/ExpectationVsReality scenario. In my post Cooking Lessons I wrote about my experience taking a cooking lesson from…

Genealogy in Rural Communities

Tracing genealogy in rural communities is often convoluted. Having grown up in small towns and from a large Southern family, I often heard people say “Everyone is related to everyone somehow.” As complicated as these family trees can be, not every couple were blood first cousins, in fact, I would argue that very few were.…