For the past few years the San Diego Museum of Art (SDMA) has packed its summer months with a great program called the Summer Salon Series; perhaps you have attended. The approximately 11-week series happened every Friday night and the roster of events scheduled to happen throughout the museum’s galleries all had themes that loosely…
Turning 40 is a big deal. This decade of life is a time when you really start putting it all together. Once you make it into your 40s, you have tried out different occupations and gained tons of work and personal life experiences. Finally things all converge when you figure out who you are, what…
San Diego’s LGBT Pride weekend is history and Comic-Con has come and gone. So, for those of us hooked on color and spectacle, now what? What can we do? Where can we go? Well, there is never a dull moment in America’s Finest City if you know where to look. So how about looking to…
Wow, am I exhausted from a fabulous Pride weekend! So many things to see and do I wasn’t sure if I would have time to make them all. I was changing in and out of outfits faster than Kim Kardashian changes boyfriends. With all the great parties last weekend and so many boys, I was…
A few articles ago I started a series called life stage planning. We only got through the 20s before DOMA was repealed and sidetracked us. But now we are back to continue on through our financial lives providing steps everyone should take as they reach different ages. Did your 20s pass you by without saving…
Pride weekend is here once more and with it comes a plethora of artistic activity to choose from and this does not necessarily mean pictures in galleries and performances in theaters. Pride, both the parade on Saturday and the two day festival is an opportunity for the local community (plus thousands of out of town…
Everyone knows that the Supreme Court struck down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). That means married same-sex couples now qualify for the 1,100+ federal benefits that were previously denied to them. We can’t go through them all, so here are my top 15 benefits for married same-sex couples: IRA and Roth…
Summer is here and with it all kinds of arts events and outdoor activities. In August, the San Diego Museum of Art will be presenting a new incarnation of their popular Summer Salon. Before that however, those of you who are oriented toward the performing arts will have a smorgasbord of off the wall performances…
