Last weekend my friend Diane and I went to see Neil Diamond’s musical, A Beautiful Noise, at the Paramount Theater in Seattle. She had seen it in New York a few years ago and as soon as she saw it would be playing here, she got us tickets. We have been best friends…
January is a funny month in the Pacific Northwest. We should be in the throngs of winter but the month has earned itself the portmanteau of “Juneuary” because the weather often feels like a typical day in early June. A fake spring. We almost hit 60 degrees last week! But next week we will dip…
This poster hangs in the hallway outside the student office at the school I work with and I have an opportunity to walk past it often. The first time I saw a similar poster was in the Head Start preschool I worked at years ago, my supervisor had hung it on the staff bulletin board….
I have had a Tonga Ridge snowshoe on my to-do list forever so with no trip report on the Foss River Road since November, I figured I would go check things out. I had considered Surprise Lake but with a considerable avalanche forecast, I opted for safety. I think to snowshoe on Tonga Ridge, you…
While on winter break last week, I decided to drive up US 2 to check on the closure and support a business in Skykomish which has been adversely affected by the severe lack of cross-state traffic since the middle of December. In case you missed it (not sure how you could have) but we had…
I wasn’t planning to post today but I realized that January 5th was the anniversary date for the blog and counting on my fingers I then realized that this anniversary marks 10 YEARS of writing in this space so I decided it was worth a short post. Yay, me! In honor of today,…