You've planned and dreamed, and now you're doing it! And then that initial excitement disappears, what do you do next?
And then the excitement wears off…
You’re not from around here: Australian Coffee
Living the last fifteen years in Seattle, the center of coffee snobbery in the States, I was intrigued to hear that the Aussies had a similar love affair with coffee. Coffee is a way of life in Seattle. The beans, the brewing method, the vessel, the additions: everything is scrutinized. It goes beyond what you…
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Saying Goodbye
There’s a cherry tree in our front yard that we planted the first spring we lived here; now, after eight years living here, we gather bowls of Rainier cherries from it in the summer. Our son celebrated his first birthday two months after we moved in, our daughter turned four, and this neighborhood provided our…