Back in the old days of those old-fashioned, red-blooded Christian missionaries, there were missions to just about...
Mideast Peace
I don’t know how it’s possible that I’ve lived in Seattle for seven years and I’ve never...
I remember when I read Amanda Hesser’s wonderful profile of Julie Powell, a then-secretary who took on...
Yutaka Ohno of Eunheui.cocolog-nifty.com who writes a Japanese blog that deals at least in part (or perhaps...
According to the New York Times, Jim Sinegal listens politely to Wall Street analysts who say what’s...
If you live in a city or suburb pretty much anywhere, but especially in a hot real...
I’ve mourned over the last two years since Tom Douglas discontinued his summer ice cream sandwiches. They...
I first read about Lark in a Pacific NW food thread at eGullet.com. It sounded like a...
When Danielle Custer first came to Fuller’s, the Seattle Sheraton’s restaurant, in the 1990s she had an...
Ray Hanania is one courageous dude. While other Arab-Americans and Palestinians either praise suicide bombings or temper...
Yesterday, I heard a remarkable radio documentary on KUOW, my local NPR station. It was The Meaning...
Most of the time I labor in relative obscurity on this blog. Sure, I’ve made attempts to...
