The for sale sign is in the front yard. The house is listed online. The time has come. After almost 10 years of residing in Oregon, my wife and I are packing up and moving back to California. I am starting a new job with a wonderful nonprofit organization dedicated to the scientific study of […]
The day’s final meeting had concluded. Following hours consumed with discussion of Puget Sound’s water quality, Clean Water Act intricacies, and prospects for litigation, my coworker and I fancied a beer. Thus, on a cloudless Friday afternoon in Seattle we ambled a block or two over to the pub, settled at a table, and ordered […]
The San Francisco of my youth was eternally foggy, cold, and wet. It was chilly nights on Nob Hill dining at Vanessi’s and aweing at the enormous Christmas tree in the lobby of the Fairmont. It was fog lingering for days outside the eighth floor window of my Park Merced apartment. It was braving a […]
What’s it called again? Not Vashon. Vancouver, no, I know it’s not that! Brisbane? No, it’s… Bainbridge? Yes! Let’s take the ferry to Bainbridge Island! My wife and I were in Seattle doing Seattle things. After enough big city shopping, Pike Place Market touring, and clam chowder munching, we sought a new adventure. She had […]
At the firmament an assemblage of islands, inlets, fjords, and coastlines. Boreas a galloping cascade of sleeveless coattails descending the mountain’s face. Glacial, limpid waters define the arena; but in the naked open it is abruptly uneven and now eight-foot crests are blasting the bow in sonorous rhythm. The locals munch chowder and shrug. The […]