I had a funny little moment during the introductions portion of our travel panel at the Adventures in Travel Expo. Our moderator, the articulate and well-traveled Beth Whitman of Wanderlust and Lipstick was running down the bios for the panel. These were adventurers’ histories – compact stories of women who have made travel an essential …
I used to have a little blurb on my “about” page that read something like this: Freelance technical writing pays my bills. In between gigs, I submit stories to travel, culture and outdoors publications in hopes that one day, Conde Nast will call. Today was that day. This morning, at about 9am, Conde Nast called. …
The Burien Firefighters were holding an open house when we passed through which is why we parked the car, got a seat on the curb, and watched them slice up a car as though were a Thanksgiving turkey. They were demonstrating a simulated rescue on an 80’s Mazda two door hatchback – they popped off …
There’s a bit of a bite in the air after about 6pm. The sun is lower in the sky and, heaven help us, the heat goes on for a bit in the mornings. The overnight temperatures are low – they dropped into the 40s and last week I spent a few days wearing a hat, …
Sunsets and Shooting Stars: A Cape Cod Memoir is a light-hearted and sentimental collection of memories of visits to Cape Cod by Rick Seidel. Seidel uses nice descriptive language to put you in the back of the family’s rusty truck on the way out to the cape and his characters are three dimensional enough, but …
On the right, a neighborhood girl and her chicken, Neptune, outside Makeda Coffee in Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood. Neptune is a frizzle bantam. She stayed on her leash, tied up to the bench outside until the girls got their drinks. I asked one of the owners about pets in the shop. “I think I’d draw the …