In this 2013 feature story, I write in first person for Land+People magazine about My Perfect Park Day in Sacramento, California, the place I now call home.

This was a multiple-perspective article that featured first-person stories by writers in New York, Boston, San Francisco, and Minnesota — all cities that ranked among the top five “best park cities” in the country, according to ParkScore.

Land+People is the quarterly magazine for the Trust for Public Land, a national environmental and conservation non-profit.