Hi! Thanks so much to all the folks who wrote back with opinions about the cadence of this newsletter. Two of you wrote to say you prefer one big edition at the end of the month, the vast majority of you said you would be happy with two editions per month, and a couple of […]

We’ve hit the portion of the summer that’s best described as “overripe.” People are annoyed and aggressive, drivers are even more unhinged than usual, and it feels like every trash bin is overflowing into the streets. I don’t know how other cities do it, but in Seattle, at least, we need a good chilly rain […]

Hi! When I was younger (groan,) summer was the season of pop culture. All the catchiest pop songs tumbled out of the windows of passing cars, all the expensive blockbusters popped off in movie theaters like a months-long fireworks show, and all the grabbiest books by the biggest-name authors weighed down the new arrival tables […]

Hi! Sometimes the summer solstice leaves me feeling a little depressed. I’ve always seen the solstice as a time to celebrate and luxuriate in the long warm days, but also a time to mentally prepare for the dark days ahead. I think it says something about the way I see the world that my innate […]

Hello! On the first Saturday of this month, I did my annual(ish) walk around Lake Washington.  Let’s start with the stats that people most frequently ask about: I left the house around 4:30 in the morning and got home around 10 pm. According to my Pedometer++ app, it was 109,284 steps, and 60.4 miles. I […]

Hi! I cannot tell you how much I needed spring to show up. Here’s a picture of Wally that really captured how I felt last week as the good weather arrived: The world is still on fire, of course. The news that broke me this month was the government sending a four-year-old American citizen with cancer to […]

Hi! I hope you’ll forgive a little bit of self-promotion up top. I’m excited to announce that this month I published a new comic book as part of my day job at Civic Ventures that is free to read. It’s called Trillion Dollar Heist, and it explains a very real trick the super-rich use to steal […]