On Your Left!

My dear friend Bike Nerd was not always a bike obsessed fiend. When I met him, he had a borrowed bike and couldn’t change a tire. I was the one with the crazy odometer count and the mad roadside skillz. Bike Nerd called me Bike Girl! as though I was some kind of superhero in …


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Olympic Sculpture Park

Modern art can be tricky even at its best – it can be snobby and inscrutable and intolerably highbrow and, well, annoying. But today at the Olympic Sculpture Park, a young woman walking around in the Richard Serra sculpture said this: “This must be what it feels like to be a fish!” It’s nice to …


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Summer in Seattle

Summer in Seattle is perfect and sweet. Even while it happens, you’re nostalgic for the moment that just passed. Photo: V. in the garden at the place where he lives with K. A fabulous time was had by all.

Summer in the Garden

The boys’ garden is place of wonder, truly. If you’d seen this scrappy patch of dirt with a few randomly placed badly chosen plants, you would not believe it could be transformed into the fabulous oasis it is today. The lilies are in bloom, yellow butterflies appear and disappear over the fence, and two little …


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While the Sun Shines

Last Friday, I was stunned, truly stunned to find myself saying “Thank God It’s Friday.” I can’t remember the last time I’ve felt that way. If I reach back in the dusty places of my memory when I still had a “real” job I might be able to come up with something, but even then, …


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