Hello! My name is Monica Schwartz, and I currently live in the California wine country with my two "piglets", yes those two in the image to the right.

Besides being the driving force behind Life Out Of Bounds, I am also a photographer, artist, writer, chef, forest therapy guide, and dabble a bit in design. I am also a world explorer, time traveler and aspiring teleporter. If I were turning eleven next week, my choice of school would be Hogwarts!

Born and raised in Italy, I moved to Hawai'i in 2002, where I lived for eleven years, until I came down with island fever. That is when I moved to California with my two Tibbies in order to have more territory to explore in my Mini.
Hawai'i remains the home of my heart.