Last Call

If the Ericksen House in Bothell, Washington isn’t moved in March, it will be destroyed. The house and its neighbor have been sitting there patiently waiting for someone to move them. But despite being *FREE*, as in, COMPLETELY FREE BUILDINGS, no one has come for them. I wrote about these buildings in last October’s Necrotic […]

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Necrotic Bothell

How will we know it’s us without our past? John Steinbeck There is a Bothell I used to know. It is an increasingly distant memory, a mist flickering on the moors of my imagination. What remains of that Bothell amounts to the dying embers of a fire that is being stamped out by an oversized […]

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Coop of Dreams

Transylvanian Naked Neck?! Will it bite? After a friend told me about the Coop of Dreams tour in Everett this weekend, a junior relative and I decided to participate. She raises several breeds of chickens and sells eggs, so I figured she might get some new ideas by networking with other chicken owners. While I’ve […]

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