Guest Post: Signs

By Katrina Woznicki My first encounter with a gun happened in 1985 near my house in rural upstate New York. I was hitting my neighbor—a girl across the street who was a bit of a bully. She was two years younger than me, but about my size, and had been calling me names. It was …


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Happy

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Where Planes are Made : Boeing Factory Tour

We had comped admission to the tour — I’ve got an assignment to write about Seattle from a Jet City perspective. There’s something super freaky about looking down upon jumbo jets as they’re being built. The huge birds still look enormous and my brain struggled with the scale. Then, to think that entire sections of …


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On Taking the Bolt Bus to Portland

We’ve had Bolt Bus service in the Pacific Northwest for a little over a year now. The line runs nonstop to Portland from Seattle, making it possibly the most efficient way to visit our hipster neighbors to the south. It’s cheap, comfortable, fast, and has some nice amenities. There’s a toilet cabinet at the back …


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Fog

There’s a park down on the water, about a mile from my house and it’s full of towering cedar and spruce trees. When I drove into our neighborhood, I could just see the tops of the trees poking through the fog and I could not see the water at all, so thick was the blanket …


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