Getting a Seat at the Counter

If I have to go to each and every new eatery in my neighborhood to conduct access audits and negotiate deals, I will, readers. I will. Down here in the Square, Rain Shadow Meats opened last month. I tracked the new construction with great expectation. We resident...
Pondering Pride Mountain

Pondering Pride Mountain

Handmade pasta crafted with love and devotion mere blocks from my condo. And me, an Italophile. How to resist? I shouldn’t. I couldn’t. I didn’t. But I did have to tackle some obstacles: one steep hill, two awkward steps, and a whole lot of stubborn...

Love Letter to Leslie

“What are you, his mother?” the paramedic asked my wife. I was in a stretcher in the back of an ambulance outside Boston on a frigid night. It had taken a lifetime for them to maneuver me down the steep and tight back steps of my parents’ colonial,...
My Season of Renewal

My Season of Renewal

Spring is in full swing in Seattle. I see reminders everywhere that renewal is possible. “That’s me,” I say when I wheel by one of the London Plane trees that line Occidental Mall, somewhat scarred but ready to burst forth with new leaves. I live...