Maybe it’s the Pacific Northwest in me, but one of my favorite physical activities – the one that gets my blood pumping and puts my soul at ease – is hiking.  The taste of crisp, clean air, the feeling of hard-packed dirt beneath my boots, the view of so much green at the top of [...]

Recently I mentioned how sweet my boyfriend is.  I’d like to amend that and add another notch to the sweet-o-meter: On Monday, I came home to a package, which he explained was a “for no reason present.”  What did he get me?  The best combination of geekery and home design possible, of course: It’s a [...]

When we moved to the south end of Seattle a year ago, the thing that shocked me was how hidden our house seemed, and how all of the wild creatures in the entire city seemed to take advantage of that fact. In the past year I’ve watched complicated squirrel games (they love to climb our [...]