Archives January 2017

The winter months in Thousand Oaks, CA, have been unseasonably rainy and wet. The low-level hill at the edge of your backyard seems to be over-saturated. The forecast for the day is more rain. As you sit in your living room looking out the window gazing at the rain, you hear a loud crash from your k...

You’re in Santa Ana, CA, and it’s been raining on and off all week; you’ve been miserable. It’s made getting to work and engaging in other activities difficult. All you want is for the rain to stop and for everything to dry out. It’s Saturday morning and the forecast ca...

It’s been a crazy day that started out when the alarm didn’t go off. You had to rush around the house getting ready in hopes of making it to your Long Beach, CA, office on time. Now you’re at the office scrambling to get work done, and your husband calls. You ignore it, but he call...

You’re standing at the kitchen sink cleaning the dishes from dinner. Suddenly, you suffer a sneezing attack; four in a row, that’s a new record, you think to yourself. This has been going on for weeks, but only at home. You’re fine when you leave the house and go to work, but every...