My brain spends a lot of time thinking about my body: what it needs, what it looks like, what other people think of it, and on and on. Over the years, I’ve come to realize that one of my tasks in life is to come to terms with having a body. Recently, I’ve been viewing …
On a hot night on Sixth Street in Austin, Texas in the last century, the local lowriders came posing down the road. Having spent most of my young adulthood outside of the U.S., I had never heard of or seen lowriders. It was a thrilling sight, and I still am struck with wonder and respect …
Sometimes I feel like I’m Andy Rooney. It’s easier for me to complain about everything than it is for me to find something good to say. From the look of the internet, I’m not alone in that. I’ve tried to be upbeat and positive in my writing here, but kvetching is easier and usually more …
Even though some of them were removed a while back, there are still plenty of hills left to elevate your heart rate on a stroll through Seattle. When your legs and lungs have had enough, Metro transit is there to help you to the finish line, and Seattle’s electric trolley buses make ascents both quieter …
It is January. Down the white rows of stones that stand as stoically as their subterranean occupants did when they were alive, down the road between the stones comes my father. Not as he did in spring, past the budding trees, the last few wisps of cold air chased away by the greening. My father, … Continue reading »
Just as a craggy face holds a deeper story than the slick sheen of a botoxed forehead, Rainier Avenue South in Seattle is dotted with cultural flora unhomogenized by business as usual. It’s eclectic and mostly ugly, but it’s one of the most interesting thoroughfares in Seattle. And yet, as surely as the mural pictured … Continue reading »
1) Everything is faded now. Everything. 2) Full, then empty 3) I want to understand, but in a limited way 4) What happened out there, and why were you hiding? 5) It’s old, you’re old, I’m old 6) I understand, but in a limited way 7) There are holes I can’t step over 8) I … Continue reading »
Springtime–it is happening in some places now–and my thoughts turn to chickens. That’s because this is the first spring in 8 years that I haven’t had hens gifting me with eggs, pooping on the porch, and making the neighbors happy by eating their snails and slugs, or making them unhappy by scratching through a sensitive … Continue reading »
You can spend a lot of time on ‘technology’ reading about, well, technology. Lots of talk about how things are different now, hand-wringing about cell phone manners (hot topic 6 years ago), dismay over a generation of texters who are sure to wind up socially inept, and too many others to list. Emily Post has … Continue reading »
A couple of years ago, one of my friends who owns a business in California was pretty worked up about two bad reviews her business had received on Yelp*. I can’t remember the details, because it wasn’t MY business, so while I was sympathetic, it didn’t seem like a big deal. Recently, someone posted a … Continue reading »
