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Coming Out of Darkness
Hang in there, baby! Spring is coming!
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Please Keep Your Cats Inside This Season
Do the right thing this spring.
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A Summery Throwback
A cool story for a hot day.
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Fremont Solstice 2019
This will be the third year running that I’ve written about an amazing Seattle tradition. (Here’s last year’s post.) I can think of no better way to celebrate the advent of summer than the Fremont Solstice Parade. There’s such a feeling of joy that comes from this event. In true Fremont style, everyone who participates…
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Losing Sunlight
The sun is shining somewhere…
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Seasonal Transitions
I am so grateful to be living in a climate of seasons again.
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Not Cut Out for Grit Labor
When I was 19 years old, my eldest sister was in the Air Force, stationed in Holland. Between my freshman and sophomore years in college, she invited me to go there for the summer. What, are you kidding? Of course I said yes, with visions of jet setting around Europe dancing in my head. Upon…
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The Curse of Summer Vacations
The reality of summer never fit with my fantasies.
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Hooray for Summer Solstice!
When summer finally arrives, you can’t really blame Seattleites for getting a little crazy, can you?
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Nature’s Personality
When I lived in Florida, I avoided nature at all costs. For me it was a place of spiders and snakes and mosquitoes and lightning strikes and fire ants and tornadoes and floods and, increasingly, forest fires. You couldn’t even jump into a pile of leaves for the scorpions. (How does one get through childhood…