Beware of DreamBusters, you’ve set your sights on a wonderful goal. Unfortunately, a lot of time will pass between this first step and the day your diploma arrives in the mail. Right now, you... Read more >>

Before I arrived in Washington, D.C., I had an A-list itinerary of places to see: the Lincoln Memorial, the White House, Capitol Hill, Georgetown, and the easy-going suburb of Adams Morgan. As I... Read more >>

“Did you see anything interesting on the way down?” We were standing in the driveway at our destination, 300 miles south of Seattle. Husband and I started to laugh. Centralia is a... Read more >>

Saddam Hussein is a very, very bad man. He’s a Renaissance bad man—a genocidal maniac with collection of anthrax and bubonic plague samples, a power-mongering invader who married his... Read more >>

Scene: Washington, D.C., my favorite Irish, sticky-floored bar, dark, loud, and smelly. Feeling nostalgic, inspired by my impending move to Massachusetts, I nearly swooned when my favorite former... Read more >>

In Washington we have our own private archipelago, a scattering of 450 islands that lay like jewels in the water between Washington and Canada. The San Juan Islands always surprise me when I see them... Read more >>

For X amount of hours, they sit in one huge room complaining all day about things that can be changed with a stroke of a pen. Isn't it amazing how educated adults can completely act worse than... Read more >>

If I had a chance to stand before the president, I would simply say:   I have one favor to ask. I trust you. I respect you. With that, I ask that you continue to listen to the voice... Read more >>

There’s not much to do in Port Ludlow in the wintertime. The town is little more than a crossroads with a gas station and a mini mart. Port Townsend has more to offer, if you like twee little... Read more >>

During the three glorious months of summer in Seattle, the best place to be is outside. Seattleites spend a good nine months indoors plotting their attack on summer so that when it arrives, not a... Read more >>