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Home on the Coast Range

Tomorrow, April 7th, is my son Trevor’s 18th birthday and we will head down the coast for a celebratory dinner at Nepenthe with family, a time-honored tradition. Trevor was born on a mountaintop, twelve miles or so south of the restaurant, in a beautiful room overlooking Dolan canyon, on land owned by his paternal grandfather [...]

My Nepenthe, Home

Home. For me home always signifies Big Sur. Nepenthe. My grandmother’s living room above Nepenthe restaurant. Her secret garden outside the log cabin, now transformed by perennials, rose bushes, and myriad mosaics by my cousin Erin. The oak trees. The beach. The blue birds. The quietness of mornings. A profusion of wild flowers in spring. [...]

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