We Take Care of Our Own

How My High School Friends Saved Me

December 28, 2015

The kids, Eira, and I are visiting my mother in my hometown for the week between Christmas and New Year’s. Neither of my children can remember their last visit, back in August 2012, and I’m having great fun showing them the Monterey Peninsula where I grew up.

On our second full day, we go to El Estero Lake to ride the paddleboats. Carri…