As I drove out of Old Sacramento last week, I noticed a huge addition being built at the Crocker Art Museum. Attached to this old Victorian building that has been standing there since I was a young kid, is an addition as sleek as New York’s Guggenheim Museum.  I shy away from art museums. I can only take so much of standing and admiring before things all start to blur together. The thought of bringing...

We are truly a Lego family. My husband has lego kits stashed as birthday presents for our kids for the next several years. So it was no surprise that a trip to Legoland on our southern California vacation was going to happen within the first 24 hours we were down there. I have learned to be skeptical of theme parks, based on our last trip to Disneyland.  My oldest was petrified of the walking characters...