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This week a young woman died and left a heartbreaking legacy.
In the following post, I have omitted as much identifying information as possible so as not to hurt anyone who might recognize any of the specifics of this story.
She was a mother in her 40s and had a 7 year-old boy, T. She had […]

I’m the decider and I decide what’s best. And what’s best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the secretary of defense.”
–George Bush
Simple it’s not, I’m afraid you will find,
for a mind-maker-upper to make up his mind.
–Dr. Seuss, The Places You’ll Go!
Given the choice between George Bush, the blithely confident blithering idiot of a “decider” […]

Dahlia Bakery’s Easter cupcake
This is another in my sporadic series of “Best of Seattle” food posts. I LOVE cupcakes. And there are so few good ones out there. Cupcakes are so common that every bakery and market seems to offer them and over 99% are a sorry-assed excuse for what can be […]

This is a recent image of Miriam, my 18 month-old twin. I’m not gonna go all daddy sloppy about how damn beautiful she is. But you get my drift. She gets the hang of the camera and poses for it. Adin, the other twin, marches right up to the camera and […]

This blog post began as an effort to showcase my son Jonah’s “genius” (you’ll forgive a dad trying shep a little nachas from his boychik). Part of that story involves the book my son and I are currently reading at bedtime: Spirit of the Cedar People. But the more research I […]