Saltwater for Breakfast

A couple of the girls and I signed up for a different surf school this spring. They started earlier than our Favorite Surf School and it...

Secret Surf Society held a conference the other day and before we went out, we saw this washed up on the beach. Looking at the bite...

Back in the water yesterday on a stormy day! Bucket list item checked: surfing in the rain. I had imagined surfing in the rain to be like...

It has been a long winter. Not a frozen-solid-under-3-feet-of-snow long winter like I grew up with in the Midwest, but a long winter by...

Boxing Day 2023. Secret Surf Society Sesh. It was still dark when I loaded the surfboard in the car. A sliver of gold and orange light...

It's cold. I've chickened out of surfing this morning, because...it's cold. Air temperature in the 40s is my limit! I'm also waiting on...

It's Tuesday. I get up in the dark to arrange the car. When I leave the house, it's 50 degrees. Surfline reports the water temperature at...

Conditions were perfect. No wind. Small, mellow, friendly waves with lots of time in between to rest. Not a struggle to get outside....

Haven't been out on the water that much this month. Life getting in the way. But dear surf sister, Sherri, went with me last weekend for...

Notes on My First Summer of Surfing As I was rinsing off at the beach shower this morning, another surfer walked up to do the same. I...

I did it -- I stood up on my board for a whole second. :) It felt great! It was a single swell day, according to our new surf instructor,...

Happy Californiaversary to me! I moved to California one year ago on Labor Day weekend! And what a year it has been! Though COVID is ever...

I was sitting at a women's college basketball game with my friend, Barb, several years ago. We were watching the warm up and chatting...

When I was a kid in the midwest, we went to the local public, park district swimming pool. There was a kiddie pool for the little kids...

It's been roughly three months since I started surfing. Time to assess my performance, losses, and assets. LOL. A quarterly report of...

In one part of the classic set of interviews with Bill Moyers, Joseph Campbell discussed the meaning of life. He said, “People say that...

Girls Can't Surf is a documentary about how a few women transformed what I will call the briefly male-dominated sport of surfing and...

I was the 16th person to paddle out to the line up this morning. We were there by 7 am due to the holiday weekend. I saw Haley out there...

Blackies was hopping this morning! Sunday Surf Day with the girls is the joy of my week. Newport Beach is a big tourist location, so...

A voluptuous goddess is perhaps not well suited for surfing. On that gloomy day last week when I went surfing alone for the first time, a...

It was one of those June Gloom days when you couldn't tell the difference between ocean and sky. This is the first time I surfed alone....