Editorial calendar
The archive
We publish one story a week. Everything lands here eventually.
August 2026
- August 24Two People With Clipboards, 1990People
We both showed up to work in Huntington Beach that year and never quite left. A story about how a working life becomes a shared one.
- August 17What Thirty-Eight Years of Showing Up Teaches You About PeoplePeople
Not wisdom, exactly. More like a set of small corrections you make to your assumptions, one house at a time.
- August 10Huntington Harbour Is Not a Neighborhood. It's a Habit.Places
What happens to a place when the water is a street, the boats are neighbors, and everyone waves whether or not they know you.
- August 3Raising Two Daughters Inside a PostcardHome
Coastal Orange County looks like a vacation. Living a whole family life here is something else — better and stranger.
July 2026
- July 27A Thousand Doorways: What Door-Knocking Taught Us About ListeningWork
The least glamorous part of this job turned out to be the best education in human beings either of us ever got.
- July 20The Slowest Possible Way to Build a BusinessWork
Repeat and referral is not a marketing strategy. It's what happens when you can't get away from your own reputation — and don't want to.
- July 13Nobody Has Ever Cried About Square FootageHome
Thirty-eight years of walking through other people's houses, and the thing that moves people is never the thing in the listing.
- July 6You Can Read a Town by What It Volunteers ForCommunity
La Casa. Anglers of Huntington Harbour. Robyne's Nest. Stars and Stripes. Surfrider. Flying Dutchman. The Yacht Club. A list is a portrait.