I’m pregnant! Wowza! Big adventures lie ahead, along with exhaustion I’m sure 🙂 We’ve got a little boy coming end of Ap...

The scared light-brown dog, all skin and bones, hopped out of the rescue lady’s van in the parking lot of this non-descript strip mall. On...

A few years ago I wrote a piece about our beloved dog Max, who had just died. It was the most personal piece of writing that I’d shared wi...

“Can’t wait for the adventures ahead with this little man.”   That’s the caption I wrote on my first Instagram as a mom. I po...

As a professional climber, I’ve avoided weekends when the roads were full of traffic and the crags were littered with people. Saturday a...

As climbers, when we become parents, most of us become boulderers by default. I can feel the cringe from some Valley locals now, but at le...

For anyone that knows Katie Lambert, she’s an inspiration. Not only with her climbing achievements, but with her insightful and thou...

I first met Jen at a Triple Crown competition over a decade ago. She was one of those undercover locals that crushed all the visiting prof...

Fear and Afar: From Kyrgyzstan to the Bay   Fifteen years after being held hostage for six days by a group of Islamic rebels in Kyrgy...