Personal Living


When The Going Gets Personal, Your Lawyer Has To Be

Your home. Your belongings. Your relationships. Your kids. If all were swept into a perfect storm that threatens to tear apart everything you hold dear, what do you do?...... Read More

Personal Counseling

Kids to Hire Their Own Counselors at Steve & Kate’s Camps

An award-winning children’s day camp known for its guiding philosophy of letting kids decide their own activities today announced plans to dramatically expand its mission of kid-empowerment by directly involving campers in the interview and hiring process for their own camp counselors. Steve & Kate’s Camp,which has grown to include 39 locations in California, Washington ...

Athletics

A Uniquely Different Basketball Camp

Basketball is more than just learning how to shoot and dribble. It’s more than just a bunch of kids running around trying to score. While most basketball camps “kind of throw the ball out there and try to make money and there’s not a lot of teaching going on,” says Coach (“Doc”) Oliver Eslinger, head ...

For Mother's Day

Mother’s Day Offerings at The Langham Huntington, Pasadena!

This year, The Langham Huntington Pasadena will celebrate Mother’s Day with festive dining offerings and luxurious spa specials, perfect for pampering mom or for a spring indulgence! Mother’s Day Brunch in the Huntington Ballroom will feature the following menu highlights: Smoked & fresh seafood; domestic and imported cheeses; artisanal meats; sushi and caviar; assortment of ...

Summer Camps

Where Lifelong Memories Are Made

It’s been said that youth is wasted on the young. Whoever said that probably never went to summer camp. What defines us as adults is the result of what’s instilled in us when we were kids. Pasadena’s long-reknown Tom Sawyer Camps aims to define future grown-ups with values and ethics by summer camping them with ...

Managing Our Asset Base

Estate Plans: Do I Need One?

Nurturing the All Around Student Athlete

Honing Young Minds and Bodies

Planning for the Unplannable

Planning for Life’s Unthinkables

How To's in Buying Tech Gadgets

When Buying a Product or Service, Price Is Not Always King

Dog Diseases

Heartworm Disease on the Rise in Pasadena

Custom Built Trucks

Prescribing the Road to Independence

For a person with disabilities, the road to freedom and independence may be a prescription away. There are many potential solutions for helping an individual that uses a wheelchair enhance their mobility. “It’s very, very important that each individual go through a thorough driver evaluation to make sure that they’re capable of driving a vehicle ...

Teen Iron Chef!

Cooking Camp Introduces New Teen Iron Chef Series

In recent years, it has been exceedingly difficult for parents to get their children engaged in activities that pry them away from their computer screens, Ipads and video games. Programs such as Summer Art Academy’s Cooking Camp allow children and teenagers to gain new life skills while thoroughly enjoying the process in a tasty week ...

Modified Trucks

Tricked Out Trucks Aren’t Just For The Able Bodied

Who says disabled people can’t look stylish when moving around? People with disabilities who are lucky enough to be able to drive often find themselves in minivans and other such van conversion vehicles. Mobility SVM, a company which builds customized vehicles for the disabled, has come to change that, expanding their range of services to ...

Estate Plan Options

Estate Planning: What You Need to Know to Get Started

In my first article, “Estate Plans: Do I Need One?,” we followed Tom and how his estate plan helped him and his loved ones through a series of life-altering events. We noted that an estate plan helps take away the uncertainty of what happens next, both during life and death, and helps resolve the top ...

Benefits of Old Landlines

Can You Hear Me NOW?

Old technology – like the tortoise in the old tortoise-and-the-hare fable – still sometimes ends up crossing the finish line first, even into today’s mind-blowing digital world. If you want absolutely reliable, never-miss-that-important-call communications for your business, expert Mike Taulli (known as The Phone Guy) will tell you straight out: Old is better. Don’t cut ...

Nurturing the All Around Student Athlete

Honing Young Minds and Bodies

In the old days, schools tended to focus exclusively on academic achievements. But with the realization that people have multiple intelligences, many schools try to strike a balance. Few succeed. Enter Student Athlete Lab (SAL), a unique extra-curricular school that not only sharpens the mind, but hones the body as well. Designed for high school ...