Learning to Surf in LA: A Love Story
Nov 3 · 15 min read

I. YEAR ONE
In the summer of 2016, my partner Phil and I moved back to Los Angeles after a brief departure to San Francisco. We were exuberant to be “home” to the sunshine. We moved into a one bedroom with a pool, one block from the ocean in Santa Monica. At this point Phil was still my boyfriend, not yet husband, and neither of us knew if we were moving in that marriage direction or the opposite…

