Seattle goings on
We miss you a lot, your convenient supermarkets, your fabulous hipsters, your proximity to our friends and neighbors. But we do not regret trading the cruise-y elegance of Volunteer Park for the much wilder beauty of Lincoln Park. A 15 minute walk from our door and we are standing on the edge of the sound, …
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Today’s the day I go back to work. This is excellent news for the wallet. The last two months have been extremely hard on the bank account. It was an unfortunate coincidence that my last project wrapped just as I started to write checks for the new home. Naturally, I’m delighted to return to an …
We still don’t have a usable kitchen, that explains it, okay? Bakery Nouveau: The Best Treats, uncontested. They totally need to fix the interior though, it’s just wrong. Sugar Rush: Okay, it’s cozy in there and the coffee is good, but the treats we tried left us totally nonplussed. Capers: This is an oddball place, …
So you think you wanna be an expat, eh? There’s a good conversation about the bloom coming off the rose of expat life over at Lost in Transit. Folks who haven’t been expats may gain insight, folks who have may have something to offer. And I have a new post there about our move. [tags]Lost …
Cafe Rozella. Okay, not exactly our hood, but we had to run to White Center anyway. They have rather nice tea at Rozella, the coffee is good, and it’s next to a tool rental shop. Fun-kay. We like fun-kay. Lincoln Park. In this morning’s warm rain, we wandered our very walkable new ‘hood. There’s a …