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Santa Barbara Beaches 41 to 49
Santa Barbara Beaches 41 to 49
Santa Barbara Beaches 31 to 40
Santa Barbara Beaches 31 to 40
Santa Barbara Beaches 21 to 30
Santa Barbara Beaches 21 to 30
Santa Barbara Beach 11 to 20
Santa Barbara Beach 11 to 20
Santa Barbara Beaches 1 To 10
Santa Barbara Beaches 1 To 10
My #sbbeaches2018 Challenge: Visit All Santa Barbara County Public Beaches In One Year!
My #sbbeaches2018 Challenge: Visit All Santa Barbara County Public Beaches In One Year!

I set myself the challenge of visiting all of Santa Barbara county’s public, accessible beaches in 2018…49 in all!

How Do Tides Work
How Do Tides Work

You might remember that tides happen because of the moon, but how? Why? Geeklin’gs Guide to the Galaxy explores the finer details you may have forgotten!

UCLA Meteorite Gallery
UCLA Meteorite Gallery

Explore's UCLA's collection of ROCKS FROM SPACE! Also, learn that not all meteorites are created equal...Holy variety, Batman!

Griffith Observatory (Los Angeles, CA)
Griffith Observatory (Los Angeles, CA)

Whether hiking, exploring, or star gazing, you can't go wrong with the Griffith Observatory.

What Do Pokemon Go and San Francisco Have In Common?
What Do Pokemon Go and San Francisco Have In Common?

Or perhaps most importantly, did you know there are ships buried under San Francisco?

 
 

Make a SMALL impact.

Change the world.

 
 
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Places To Visit

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UCLA Meteorite Gallery
UCLA Meteorite Gallery
Griffith Observatory (Los Angeles, CA)
Griffith Observatory (Los Angeles, CA)
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
 

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Geekling's Guide to the Galaxy
How Do Tides Work
How Do Tides Work
What Do Pokemon Go and San Francisco Have In Common?
What Do Pokemon Go and San Francisco Have In Common?
What's So Weird About Pineapples? Everything.
What's So Weird About Pineapples? Everything.
 

PRODUCTS Recommendations

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How We Survive Car Trips
How We Survive Car Trips
"Photo Doodles" Wins My Vote for Best Doodle Book
"Photo Doodles" Wins My Vote for Best Doodle Book
 
 
 
 

Have STEAM, will travel.

STEM+Art

FOR A

SMART START

Spoiler: It's about your brain.

TRAVELING MATTERS,

EVEN IF THEY

"WON'T REMEMBER IT"

 
 
 
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See what we've been up to lately...

Have you ever been blamed of having a short attention span? I love this quote because I can just claim I'm a quick thinker rather than easily distracted!
Over the weekend, I had the chance to go see the opening night of a play based on The Watsons Go To Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis. Curtis himself was present as well as the playwriter Cheryl L. West, and they did a Q&A after the show. It was amazing. The play still plays throughout this week at UCSB, so if you happen to be a Santa Barbara local, I suggest you go check it out! * QOTD: Have you ever seen theater adaptation of books?
I went out in search of a velvety chair in a luxurious jewel tone for our new library, but those were like a gazillion dollars. Then I found this gorgeous modern wonder and it was pretty cheap because it’s a plastic outdoor chair. But hey - easily wipeable! Useful feature! * It put a little console table we weren’t using in the library too, and with the new chair I can now sit at the console with my laptop and write. Bam, now I got an office! * Give me one moment you felt like a resourceful genius recently? Because that’s what I am, a room-multipurposing genius 😉
The checkout guy at the grocery store yesterday told me "stay safe out there" and it got me wondering whether he meant safe from the rain or safe from Valentine's Day? 😂 * How was your V Day? I popped some champagne, made a light dinner, over-ate chocolate fondue, and promptly fell asleep on the couch at 9pm while watching tv like a classy lady.
Do you buy your loved ones gifts for Valentine's Day? Our tradition is to celebrate with a nice homemade dinner and chocolate fondue, but it never occurs to me to buy gifts for Valentine's Day until I see everyone on Facebook sharing their V Day loot. All I can think in February is "thank goodness we finally found a place to store all the gifts the kids got for Christmas!" No way am I buying more gifts already! * And this is how I know I'm a horrible mother 😂
Oh no, the zombies are here! The main character of your current book is coming to save you... how screwed are you? * I always have many books going on at the same time so I'm going to cheat and pick my best chances: Vasya from The Bear & The Nightingale. I think I'd survive with her! (I haven't read the 3rd book yet though, so if it turns out she becomes uncharacteristically useless in the final book, I don't want to know!)
My two kiddos wanted to sleep in the same room now, which left us with a spare room...what did we decide to do with said spare room? Turn it into a library, of course! So now our small thousand square foot home has a library and we all feel very posh about that 😉😂 * This photo looks staged, but I actually snapped it in secret! Both kiddos are LOVING the library, and my 8yo read all morning on her sick day at home this week. Here I caught her laughing out loud at my old Get Fuzzy comic books, she adores them. * Are there any of your old books that your kids are discovering and loving? Or maybe some old favorites that you are rediscovering?
Is the page empty...or full of potential? This is the glass-half-full litmus test for writers! * I’m not usually pessimistic or optimistic, I’m more of realistic “hope for the best, prepare for the worse” kind of person. How about you?
Let me warm up your laptop for you. With my butt. * What are your pets’ annoying habits?
What are you up to this Friday? Anything exciting? I’m writing during my free time this morning, then who knows! The day is young and this mama is wild. Wild, I say! * I picked up this book specifically because it had elements in common with the MG I’m writing, and lucky me because it was so good! The setup was so sad, this girl learns to deal with the death of her sister, but it was also very light and silly in many ways. Really enjoyed it!
In a way, this quote bothers me because it takes a certain amount of privilege to think that freedom lies in what you do and not what other people do to you. But on the other hand, my rebel heart still loves this quote 😉
So I was writing by the creek while my kids were hopping from rock to rock when splash! In fell my 5yo up to her neck. The creek was only 4 inches deep, mind you, but the creek managed to make the most of situation. If that’s not a metaphor for life, I don’t know what is. * Watcha reading this week? I just picked up at the library a new Middle Grade book recommended by a friend (The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone) and I can’t wait to get to it, but first I have another one to finish reading The Land of Neverendings. I plowed through the first half but I seem to be dragging now 🤷‍♀️