Morgan Sliff decided to surf every day for one year. Ten years later, she finally took a day off. It was not so much an ending, however, but a completion.
by Mark McDermott
A young woman stands by a window, looking out at the Pacific Ocean from her childhood home in Hermosa Beach. She’s 24, but feels much older. The ocean is a few hundred yards away but feels unfathomably distant.
Morgan Sliff grew up in that ocean. It was her childhood playground. She was a blonde-haired, s



