Our new apartment makes it so easy to drop into the Seattle Art Museum. I'd never noticed "The Origin of the Cornucopia" by Abraham Janssens before— perhaps a change of …
Not quite thirty miles south of us, Auburn is one of the old farming communities that used to feed Seattle. With its mostly intact small town core, it's actually pretty …
My only New Year's Resolution would be that I would write more love letters— and by "love", I mean Thank You's, Acknowledgements of Kindness, and Appreciations. To this end, and …
After you've spent a few days in Kyoto, you'll be burnt out and bored with temples and shrines. Seriously, a half day in Nara and you'll be fine. Or so goes …
Fifty miles and thousands of years separate Tel Aviv from Jerusalem. That's obvious and the cities are full of difference, but what I was not expecting was such a startling …
I am fortunate to go to New York enough that I have favorites. With a day of work in New Jersey on a Monday, I made a weekend of New …
On paper, the Frye doesn't have much going for it. Saddled with a dreadful permanent of collection of late 19th-Century German art and the benefactor's requirement that it be free, …
With the failure of Thursday's photoshoot, I decided to take advantage of the thick fog to walk around Volunteer Park after spin class. At 7:45, the park was already busy with …
Last week, we picked up our ketubah from our pal Larry at Seattle Custom Framing. It's stunning.A ketubah is a Jewish marriage contract signed as part of the wedding ceremony …
While my most recent forays in getting back to school collapsed in the convoluted pages of Bleak House, I'm ever hopeful.I've just started watercolor class! Woo hoo.
