Recently I realized that I’ve been in Seattle long enough to give directions by where something used to be — it’s across the street from where Cha Cha’s was. When people ask where I live I often say “on the grave of Thumpers“, and they know what I mean. Usually. Many years ago I became [...]
Beautiful… Breakage I go down to the edge of the sea. How everything shines in the morning light! The cusp of the whelk, the broken cupboard of the clam, the opened, blue mussels, moon snails, pale pink and barnacle scarred— and nothing at all whole or shut, but tattered, split, dropped by the gulls onto [...]
Wonderful work from Michelle Frankfurter, from her Borderlands project. She’s a World Press Photo award winner, and this is from her main personal project. I’m a big fan of her work.
One of the chief joys of the web is being able to look through the old family photos of people you don’t know. [brought to my attention by celia]
Gorgeous writing — the last line slays me: “Whenever he is discouraged, I tell him that if I can survive on three continents, then there is no obstacle he cannot conquer. While astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. I know that [...]
Learned a new word today, which perhaps I should’ve known, that I felt I’d been waiting all my life to come across: bouma. A short time ago I was using this line on my business site: “People don’t read”. If she ever saw it, this surely earned the ire of my former boss, the copy [...]