I grew up on the Central Coast of California and moved to Tahoe after graduating High School. I quickly fell in love with the Tahoe way of life and the people that call this place home. God has since blessed me with a wonderful wife and 2 amazing kids. I received my BA in Family […]
I was born in Chico, CA, back when the earth’s crust was just cooling (actually I’m only in my 60’s). As a child I attended Notre Dame Catholic Elementary School for the first six grades of my education. After that I moved on to public schools and began drifting away from my moral underpinnings. I […]
I was born in 1973 in Carmel Valley, California. My family never went to church when I was young. My first experience going to Church was as a junior higher with my mom after my parents divorced. The few times I went, I remember feeling so out of place — in Sunday School I didn’t […]
My wife and I first walked into Sierra in June 1989. I had just been released from the Rehab Center at Carson Tahoe Hospital. The last thing they told me as I left was to find a new playground and new playmates. I started attending 12-step meetings and hearing talk of a Higher Power and […]
My Tahoe story (we all have one) is… I came here to be a ski bum in the fall of 1977. I was twenty-two years old at the time and what began as a hedonistic journey of skiing, partying, hiking, etc., etc., all took a turn for the better in the summer of 1982 when […]