Truth, Justice, and All-American Allergen-Free Apple Pie
Straight Talk in a Crooked World
After leaving the scarecrow-riddled Remlinger Farms property in Carnation, you may turn south and see a sign that announces an alpaca farm. If you follow the signs and happen to turn down the correct driveway, you find Cascade Rose Alpacas. Alpacas are naturals in front of the camera. They seem instinctively curious, and while not […]
Read More Alpaca FiestaHow 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 […]
Read More Necrotic BothellBothell’s Yakima Fruit Market is a family-owned business that has been around for 81 years. Sound Transit intends to put a bus lane right through it. Please stop by and grab a postcard to send to Sound Transit in the interest of saving this Bothell institution. Right now it seems like Bothell is destroying all […]
Read More Yakima Fruit MarketTuesday, March 12th, 2019. Kirkland, Washington. As traffic screams by on Kirkland Way south of NE 85th Street I pull into a gravel parking lot to get a better view of an old white house on the east side. When I’d passed it the previous weekend I wondered why I hadn’t investigated it before. I […]
Read More 205 Cedar StreetThis last weekend KOMO News aired a jarring special report about the state of Seattle. KOMO’s Eric Johnson rightfully called our region’s many illegal encampments what they are– dens of addiction. He pointed out that homeless people in general do not live in their own lawless filth; addicts do. There is nothing compassionate about allowing […]
Read More Civility is DyingToday a coworker told me about the Barbie Zombie Apocalypse House in Kirkland. I don’t care much for the undead part of Halloween but often use “zombie apocalypse” as an example of how humans might function in a crisis. People are being turned against each other by politicians at a time when we need to […]
Read More The Barbie Zombie Apocalypse“I smell smoke,” the day began, as someone told me of a strong smell outside. “It’s not wood-fired pizza.” We soon learned that a stretch of NE 85th Street was closed because of a fire that destroyed at least a handful of local businesses. As the day went on the news became “Waldo’s is gone.” […]
Read More Where Waldo’s WasToday on January 1st, 2018, we were blessed with one of the most beautiful full moons I’ve ever seen. I ran out onto the dock of Log Boom Park in Kenmore, Washington to try and capture the glory of the moonrise and light. Looking down the dock to the south. This is at the northern […]
Read More Die Plenae Lunae ReversurusThis morning in Seattle Evergreen Washelli hosted its fabulous annual tribute to veterans. It is quite a sight to see flags all over the cemetery, color guards, and veterans of all wars. When they asked any World War II veterans to stand or wave to be recognized, two stood up. Perhaps there were more, but each […]
Read More Veterans Day Seattle 2017August 15th, 2017: It happened! One year from when Kirkland’s historic Trueblood House last moved, it finally landed in its permanent home. Thank you to the amazing new owners who made room for it and took on the expense. Today’s journey began here on the southeast corner of 1st Street and 7th Avenue where the […]
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Truth, Justice, and All-American Allergen-Free Apple Pie 