“What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accommodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloody-minded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze? – The kind that will almost certainly, ninety-nine times out …
This librarian was not immune to the anticipation surrounding the new Kindle Paperwhite. When our demo model arrived last week, I tore open the box and took it for the first of several test runs. First Impressions Nearly identical to the $69 Kindle The LED backlight and lack of controller is the only significant difference …
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Please join the Friends of the Seattle Public Library tonight at 5:30 p.m. at the Seattle City Council budget hearing, we really need a critical mass to show the Council how detrimental their proposed budget cuts will be for Seattle residents — the current proposed budget will be 3-5 times greater than the 2010 budget cuts already in …
At the halfway point of a cool drizzly day, the sun emerged and we headed out on our bikes for the quintessential Seattle ride we’ve been planning to do for a long while. No time like the present has been our motto as we try to capture the best of Seattle on the whatever-whenever terms …
When we first moved to Seattle two years back, we had little time for deliberation — and even less money to spend – on apartment furniture. Of course, we did have taste, but it was definitely limited by these constraints. We moved to a new apartment in February and realized it was a good time …
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After a spectacular first weekend of Autumn spent in and around Olympic National Park, we were headed home from the Peninsula on the Bainbridge ferry and missed the first installment of Ken Burns\’s PBS series The National Parks: America\’s Best Idea. (Thankfully, they\’re all available to watch online.) The next day, I was delighted to see a new …
Oh, to be a patron again! I spent a glorious morning yesterday wandering through the children’s books at KCLS’s Bellevue Regional Library. Outside it was gray – but the joy of what I found inside made that (almost) irrelevant. Partly out of desire to be more knowledgeable about children’s lit and partly because it’s just …
I rented a little Toyota Yaris for the past few weeks while my host/mentor/chauffeur Stephanie was on vacation in the U.S. A wild two-week ride. Every day was terrifying, then ultimately somehow exhilarating when I reached home unscathed. I\’ve never driven outside the U.S. until now and by golly would never have considered it were …
once upon a time I was afraid to drive in… MICHIGAN! Read More »