By the time my next newsletter arrives in your inbox, I will be 50 years old. I know some people who hate aging and getting old, and that’s always felt so hopeless to me. You might as well try to win a fistfight with the ocean. In fact, I’ve always felt good about aging. When […]
Read More A Fifty Year SentenceIn which I walk around Lake Washington and urge you to buy a bookstore or three. Hi! Last Saturday, I did my annual walk around Lake Washington. It was a little early in the year, and I almost undertook it impulsively. I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to complete the full loop without a […]
Read More Walking in a Big CircleHi! Slightly different format this month, starting with three random points: I’ve Been Reading Seattle author G. Willow Wilson’s latest comic with artist M.K. Perker, The Stoneshore Register, is a quiet little masterpiece. It’s about a young journalist who gets a job writing at a tiny newspaper in a coastal Washington state town where weird things […]
Read More What I’ve Been Reading and Writing: September 2025Hello! I hope to keep it brief this month because, let’s be honest, the politics are eating our collective brain. On the Friday before Thanksgiving, I’m volunteering at the Beacon Hill International School’s 2024 Read-a-Thon. It’s one of the school’s biggest annual fundraising events and also an all-day celebration of books and reading. I’ll be reading […]
Read More What i’ve been reading and writing: October 2024