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Author archives: jrobinson

  • Yappy Hour Returns for Tail Wagging Fun at The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel

    August 28, 2017 • Current IssueComments Off on Yappy Hour Returns for Tail Wagging Fun at The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel

    Yappy Hour, The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel’s monthly cocktail party for canines and their companions, returns this season for tail wagging fun. Dapper dogs, haute hounds and classy canines are invited to party with other pups and pooches and lap up...

  • 300 Days of Summer in Sunriver, Oregon

    August 28, 2017 • Current Issue, Entertainment, HolidaysComments Off on 300 Days of Summer in Sunriver, Oregon

    There are particular places in the world where all the elements gather together to craft a certain slant of light during the summertime. Where the season lives bright in your imagination long after it turns. Sunriver, Oregon is one of those places. I’m...

  • Club Literacy: Creating a New World of Words

    August 28, 2017 • Community, Current Issue, Education & LearningComments Off on Club Literacy: Creating a New World of Words

    In a day in age when most ten year-olds have their own cell phone, and are, at many schools, required to have their own laptop, the demand for true literacy is faltering; and therefore incredibly precious. So what are parents to do prior to age 10, when game...

  • Spotlight on: Gracie Barra, Dana Point

    August 28, 2017 • Current Issue, Sports, Health & FitnessComments Off on Spotlight on: Gracie Barra, Dana Point

    Self development. Discipline. Self defense. Character development. These are all traits any parent would want to instill in their children and the main reasons why my husband and I chose to enroll our son and daughter (then ages 5 and 4) in Gracie Barra Jiu...

  • All Aboard! Stepping Back in Time on the Grand Canyon Railway

    March 26, 2017 • TravelComments Off on All Aboard! Stepping Back in Time on the Grand Canyon Railway

    My husband and I are huge fans of mixing our family’s travels with historic adventure, always mindful of creating wonderful memories while crafting an itinerary that blends fun with a bit of education. When we recently decided to trek to the Grand Canyon,...

  • Designing the Future

    March 26, 2017 • CommunityComments Off on Designing the Future

    Modeling America’s Youth Through Boys & Girls Clubs of Capistrano Valley It has been exactly 157 years since the first Boys Club was founded in Hartford, Connecticut. Elizabeth Hamersley and Sisters Mary and Alice Goodwin were first to share the vision...

  • Comes Home for the Holidays to Segerstrom Center for the Arts

    October 28, 2016 • Entertainment, November 2016Comments Off on Comes Home for the Holidays to Segerstrom Center for the Arts

    For a solid month after my kids watched the beloved New Line Cinema movie ELF, whenever either of them would pick up a phone call, they’d answer, (with as much pep and holiday cheer as possible) “Buddy the Elf, what’s your favorite color?” If you...

  • Thomas House Family Shelter

    October 28, 2016 • Community, November 2016Comments Off on Thomas House Family Shelter

    Serving Homeless Families with Children Since 1986 For homeless families struggling to provide their children with life’s basic necessities and create an opportunity to become independent and self-sufficient, Thomas House Family Shelter is more than a place...

  • The New NINJAGO World® is Plastic Fantastic & Everything is Awesome at the Legoland Hotel

    August 29, 2016 • Entertainment, September 2016Comments Off on The New NINJAGO World® is Plastic Fantastic & Everything is Awesome at the Legoland Hotel

    My husband and I made the mistake of telling our kids we were planning an overnight stay and two days of fun at Legoland in California two weeks prior to the planned visit earlier this summer. As you can imagine, we were on the countdown for the the next 13...

  • 36 Hours in Atlanta

    August 29, 2016 • September 2016Comments Off on 36 Hours in Atlanta

    Family-friendly fun in the capital of the New South Since my husband and I started our family’s admittedly ambitious endeavor to visit all 50 states as a family by the time our son (now aged 9) graduates from high school, we have captured vacation photos...