Made In Samo I created this space to share stories of my adolescent years growing up in my beloved city, Santa Monica.

Oh, Samo today marks one year you turned our family of two into three. I must admit it was not love at first sight for me. Oh, Samo your newborn baby fur was unevenly shooting out in different directions throughout your tiny seven pound body with a mass of fur ...

It has been close to two years since I last wrote a blog. I never imagined it would be this long but, the truth is, I needed space from this little project that I started to figure myself out. So, I stopped. I stopped writing this blog and stopped writing ...

I was ready, or so I thought. I soon learned the universe had other plans for me. A while back I made the decision to focus entirely on completing the book, and step away from blogging. While I was in New York last fall I met an author, and we began to ...

A few months back I made the decision to take a hiatus. I needed to completely commit to the rewrite of my memoir and nothing else… I was on a roll. There were days I wrote non-stop until dinner time. Then something happened. I began to self-doubt myself and quickly ...