I am a Midwestern girl. Born and bred. I love cheese, fried food, and I thoroughly enjoy having all four seasons. But…. If I had to go east or west, I have to say I would choose west. Not that there is anything wrong with going east. I love seafood, Boston accents, and all the history up and down the coast. I would just prefer going west. There is something highly appealing to temperatures in the 70‘s year round, yoga pants galore, heading north to wine country on weekends, the Pacific Ocean, and granola. Maybe the appearance of this urge to go west has to do with my childhood obsession with The Beach Boys suddenly coming back around again. I have been rocking out to old Beach Boy records a lot lately. When I was little, I used to walk around the yard with my pink tape recorder with the attached pink microphone and sing Beach Boys songs. There may or may not be old family home videos of me making my brothers stand on lounge chairs and pretend to surf while strumming our air guitars and lip-synching to Beach Boys songs. I am not moving towards wine country, Pike …

Share: