Rebecca Kilbreath – writer, editor, crafty gal

The ritualistic killing of a tree for our holiday

The ritualistic killing of a tree for our holiday use and amusement!

🤗 One of my mom’s all-time faves AND the mess

🤗 One of my mom’s all-time faves AND the messiest scandal on Broadway in one show? Yes, please.

We spent two nights at the Madonna Inn and it was

We spent two nights at the Madonna Inn and it was such a weird and wonderful delight! Even Dale was charmed by it (he’s not as interested in kitsch and Americana as I am). I can’t really sum up how delightful I found this place. It’s odd and over the top and sincere and retro! It’s also got lovely service and a great steakhouse. Mostly, it inspired me to lean into individuality. Commit to what you’re good at and just be yourself, however weird that is.

I loved it. 😂

Spent the morning communing with a variety of wild

Spent the morning communing with a variety of wildlife 😍!

We watched a family of otters, many with pups clinging to their chests right next to the dock in Morro Bay! Then we went up to the big rock and met some very eager ground squirrels. Then we drove out to Pismo Beach to see the stunning Monarch grove on the beach.

Yesterday we hit the Bixby Bridge overlook, walked

Yesterday we hit the Bixby Bridge overlook, walked on Pfeiffer Beach, and ate lunch at Nepenthe in Big Sur all before Hearst Castle. We packed in too much and are fried today but it was worth it.

I never think I was born in the wrong time or plac

I never think I was born in the wrong time or place. I am a throughly modern Millie. 😂 However it turns out I was meant to live at Hearst Castle in the 1930s.

Picture it: I lounge in a guest house, drinks by the pool watching Johnny Weismueller swim, dress for a big dinner and gossip with Louella Parsons and Charlie Chaplin, retire to the movie theater for a first-run film, and then, after old man Hearst goes to bed, I stay up and get drunk with David Niven.

I’ve found my place and my people, and it’s being wealthy and famous 100 years ago.

Also, nobody on my tour knew who any of the above celebrities were, and I was shocked. I guess not everybody grew up reading Hollywood Babylon over and over?

Sunrise in Monterey.

Sunrise in Monterey.

Yoda, at dawn, in front of the LucasFilm building.

Yoda, at dawn, in front of the LucasFilm building.

Loved every second of our trip to Muir Woods this

Loved every second of our trip to Muir Woods this morning.

Lazy Halloween means we let the squirrels carve th

Lazy Halloween means we let the squirrels carve the pumpkins and the candy is self-serve.