Writing the good read
I thought this, the second part of my blogathon link-love post, would be about food AND gardening. Nope. Not going to work. I have to break it up. My gardening blog love is tied up with some hippie chick homesteading/crafting/living on the cheap blog love. So food today, the rest tomorrow. Now go get a…
There are more than a hundred blogs participating in this year’s Freelance Success/WordCount Blogathon (for a full list, see this post). Every year I participate (this is my fourth), I make it a point to visit each participating blog at least once. Some of them sign up and don’t do much. Some are not to…
Seattle is in the middle of construction hell these days. Along with the usual summer pothole fixes and repaving, there are highway projects to make way for light rail, existing light rail projects that seem never ending, a planned tunnel to replace the seafront viaduct that has been put into stasis by a giant drill…
Just about every Monday, I have a blog posted at Health123.com. I love the work I do for this local health and wellness start-up, and I believe in the company. It not only works with companies to help their employees manage their health, but it offers great tools to help individuals keep track of how…
The man pictured above isn’t my actual dad. I call him dad, but he’s really the father of my high school best friend Andrea. Sometimes now that I’m grown up I call him John, or Dad M (for his last name, Mortenson). But when, as a teen, I lived in Santa Cruz and my dad…
Tonight was my birthday party. About 40 people came to my house to hear live music by The Castaways who were as awesome on their ukuleles as most bands want to be on their bigger instruments. As they say, size doesn’t matter. They came to eat. The coconut cake from PCC was perhaps the biggest…
This is me and my guy tonight. For my 50th birthday dinner he took me out to Bis on Main, a restaurant in old Bellevue restaurant that seemed to be filled with old Bellevue type-residents (refined, of money, conservative), but with a distinctly forward looking idea about food — my salad included pickled rhubarb that…
1381, 1418, 1429, 1550, 1653: a bunch of various battles in Europe. Probably some Black Death. 1665: England installs a municipal government in New York City. 1775: The first naval battle of Revolution — What is it with battles and June 12? 1776: Virginia adopts Declaration of Rights 1792: In local Pacific Northwest news, Capt….
I’m depressed today. Nothing like giving away something to make me feel better, right? So I’m going to post links to three stories, all recent. Succinctly tell me why I’m so upset (beyond the obvious). The closest answer gets a hard copy of the book California on publication, July 8. 1. The obvious: Oregon school…
Maybe twice in my life I’ve sat down with an idea in my head and written a solid first draft of a story from start to finish without stopping. You know how it is: one piece of the puzzle slides right into its place and you look at the pile of pieces and can immediately…