listening to the blue jays 

the look 

fierce kitty (Sam)

handsome boy (he knows it) 

thinking about it 

 thinking about it, too

 focus

attacking the string 

The End.

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Waaay back in the 90s  in Seattle there was a great comedy show called Almost Live that aired on Saturday nights. One of the ongoing sketches - besides the Middle Management Suck-ups, the High-Fivin' White Guys, and Bill Nye the Science Guy - was a segment called The Lame List (or,… Read full post »

Last week I went to a conference at Sleeping Lady, a resort in the Cascades about 3 hours northeast of Seattle. It is nestled in Icicle Canyon, and takes its name from the mountain behind it.

Icicle Creek and Sleeping Lady 

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Caution: this story includes a link to the song “Beach Baby." If you listen to it, you will not be able to get it out of your head.

Recently I watched a movie called The Mayor of the Sunset Strip, which tells the story of Rodney Bingenheimer, a seminal/… Read full post »

If I can distract you for a moment from the shocking news about the Freaky Troll campaign, here is a link to an article that summarizes Sarah Palin’s record on the environment. It was written by Rick Steiner, a professor at the University of Alaska, and was published in the Seattle… Read full post »

Dear Readers, Friends, and Freaky Troll,

Very soon I will be on a ferry, headed north again to Desolation Sound. 

 We will be swimming here:

 and eating these:

avoiding these: 

Oh my dear friends at OS, I fear I have gone around the bend. You have all become so real to me that my real friends are, I think, starting to notice. When our conversations turn to politics, or the Olympics, or an upcoming wedding, or almost anything, I invariably start… Read full post »

The sun is back, and so are the whales. We celebrated a few weeks ago with a trip to San Juan Island for an event called Orca Sing.

Washington State is home to three resident pods of orcas (killer whales). They are an iconic species for the region—beloved, respected,… Read full post »

The whole New Yorker episode has got me thinking about psychology and politics: What is the point where projections become a reality that is uninformed by—and resistant to—fact? What are the underlying fears and needs that drive that dynamic, and why is the right so much better at explo… Read full post »

It is raining relentlessly in Seattle. This is usually not news ;) but to rain this much  this hard this time of year and be so cold...well, even the natives are noticing, and that is saying something.

(People who grew up around here get happy when it rains.  Oh,/… Read full post »

Last week I went to Desolation Sound to help my friends harvest oysters at their family cabin.  We set out on Friday for the trip north, which happily includes two ferry crossings. We arrived just before dark to find the rest of the crew and dinner waiting, salmon and… Read full post »