The Duwamish Slough

The Duwamish Slough is a big messy place with a lot of interesting industrial activity. I go to work in a completely character free office park on the edge of the water – to get there I have to go over a drawbridge, across a lot of train tracks, between a crowd of semi-trucks in …


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The Seattle Aquarium

I am nutty about aquariums, just nutty. One of my absolute favorite pastimes is looking at fish – I’d say I have a certain talent for the observation of marine life. “Oh! My! GOD! Will you LOOK AT THAT!” See, clearly, I’m a real life prodigy. When our recent house guests suggested they might like …


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In Which India Comes to Us

First, it dropped through the mail slot in the form of India, a new CD from Putumayo. Admittedly, when I cued it up I found it a little too easy listening for my taste. But I let it play, and like so many things that evoke India, I was totally roped in. I drove across …


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Aloha, Washington

There was no town there before the big Hawaiian set up camp not far from the shingle mill where he worked. The loggers were terrified of him on first sight. He was big like the trees out there and truth be told, they were scared of the trees, too, no matter how many they brought …


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Relativity

“Weren’t you here, like, five minutes ago?`’,  the tree said, looking down at me. “No, no — it’s been ages since we were out here last,” I responded, my neck craned upward. The tree rustled a little in the wind, I’m pretty sure it was laughing. “People,” the tree said. “They think they understand time!”