As the weather shifts to Autumn, I’ve felt myself remembering the cooler mornings last year, arriving at the shop to find the Japanese Maple leaves fluttering around the courtyard and on my door mat. There’s something about the familiar that is comforting to me, to think “I remember this last year”…to anticipate watching the stormy rain through my shop windows, the hum of my Nespresso machine, and to realize this isn’t foreign anymore, and it feels like home.

I got the email from Atascadero News/Paso Robles Press back in January that Specs had won Best Eyewear in a reader’s poll. I read the words but they didn’t quite register. Then, when they sunk in, I literally jumped around the back room with excitement! I opened in July 2021 and had no idea my […]

Brought this plant friend from home…like most everything else in my shop, it has meaning. It was a gift from a former employer 12 years ago, she’s a bonsai ficus. When we lived near Asheville, NC, I helped an optometrist open a brand new practice, part of my job duties were watering and babying the […]

Soooo, I won’t lie, I was a nervous wreck when I opened on July 5. It was a beautiful day and lots of friends and family stopped in…but that darn imposter syndrome…who am I to think I can do this? But, guess what? I did it, and I’m doing it! The past few months have […]

I opened my door officially on July 5, 2021. It was a meaningful day as it was also my birthday. My birthday has been a very hard day for me the past few years, as I’ve struggled with grief around my birth mother. But this last year has brought so much healing into my life […]