Things grow in the valley.  It’s where the fertile ground is, and it’s where the water cuts through the mountains on its way to the sea. But springtime in the Ojai Valley was unusually dry when we arrived. The land was very hard and chilly, and everything was still in the process of awakening. However, […]

A week or so into our second month in Ojai, Lou and I were invited up to Napa, California to take a meeting with a winery owner Lou had recently met.  Lou was trying to broker a deal between a winery owner — let’s call him “Tony” — and a friend of a friend. Lou […]

This is the absolute truth:  A girl who lived next door to me in my freshman dorm in college repeatedly told me that she believed I evolved from a carrot. Yep. A carrot. She said she got a strong “garden vibe” whenever I was nearby, but she was “certain” that it was specifically a carrot […]