Loni Stark

Loni Stark is an artist at Atelier Stark, self-professed foodie, and adventure travel seeker who has a lifelong passion for technology’s impact on business and creativity. She collaborates with Clinton Stark on video projects for Atelier Stark Films. It’s been said her laugh can be heard from San Jose all the way up to the Golden Gate Bridge. She makes no claims to super powers, although sushi is definitely her Kryptonite.

The Dust Has Cleared: Results of Our Latest Renovation

After a couple of weeks of dust and noise, we finally have our place looking back to normal. Well, better than normal. The travertine tiles we choose with the cushion edge are just the right color and the rounded edging gives the floor a nice dimension and softness. Always difficult to...

Two in One: Celebrating Clint’s 40th Birthday and Le Papillon Review

There was a mad rush to put our home together again after the major remodel (photos to come soon) that had taken on a life of its own. Why? Because the Stark side of the family was flying in from Ottawa to celebrate Clint's 40th birthday. The whole weekend...

Self-Professed Trader Joe’s Addict

I am an avid fan of Trader Joe's - so much that I would estimate 90% of the groceries we get come from our beloved Trader Joe's on Almaden Expressway. I contemplated this last Sunday as Clint and I were around our kitchen island in the middle of our...

‘Blackwater’ Book Review

As I sit here on a Sunday morning staring at my to-do list, I've noticed this pending item to write a review of "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army". If you recall, I had finished this book a while back (during a time when Blackwater...

Interesting Times for High-Tech Acquisitions

It has been a hectic week in my neck of the woods and since Clint wrote the last blog entry, he likes to remind me on a daily basis that I am long overdue for an entry. As busy as my work has been these days, life must be a...

Construction Photos of Our Loreto Bay Home

I actually got the progress report from The Construction Coach (TCC) over the weekend. I had ambitions of first writing a review on the book, "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army" (Jeremy Scahill) which I had finished over a month ago. This has been in the...

Being in Loreto Bay…Virtually

After several weeks of hearing a lot of great things from other homeowners about The Construction Coach out in Loreto, Clint and I finally decided to sign up with them to do periodic inspections of our place in Loreto Bay as construction on it revs up. We get a lot...

Networking in the Real World

Even with all the virtual social networking sites out there and the many ways in which you can reach out and touch someone by the mere tapping of a couple of keys and the send button, there is still the occasional need to lug our carcasses out to some...