For two months, I have been hobbled without my camera. I kept holding off buying a new camera because I knew wasn’t truly lost. It was underneath the car seat, in my office in a box, or…where it was finally found…in a demo box kit I’d put in the catering room at work. Truth be […]

The other day I wanted to make Beer Can Chicken. One of my favorite grocery stores, Ballard Market, had two-for-one organic chickens so they were almost the price of, um, un-organic chickens. Score! By now you’ve heard of Beer Can Chicken. It’s a popular and easy way to smoke chicken on the grill: Open a tall […]

You are invited to a one-of-a-kind event on October 19: Ballard Authors & Neighbors. For the locals reading this post, you know that Ballardites stick together. It has the feel of a small town inside a big city. What has changed since I was a child is that Ballard has become a diverse quilt of […]

I haven’t participated in Poetry Friday for awhile, but today, looking out at the grey, this poem I wrote a few years ago seems right. This week Poetry Friday is hosted by Carol’s Corner. If you are a berry picker, as I am, you know about October berries. Most left on the vines are shrivelled, […]

Come eat out at Smokin’ Pete’s or other participating restaurants for a good cause! Page Ahead, Washington State’s leading provider of children’s books and literacy programs gets over 160,000 new books into kids’ hands each year. Tonight restaurants will donate 20% of sales to Page Ahead for their annual “Dish Up Literacy” night.  At Pete’s also have […]