Author: Nikki

Une Voiture / aka “save gas, pedal your ass”

We are about to attempt a grand experiment. We are selling one of our cars, “my” car, and becoming a one-car family. It’s absurd to think of this as a big deal or as an experiment and yet, here we are. Living in the suburbs of America, of Seattle, it is sort of an experiment—especially […]

sans queue ni tête

C’est assez naturel que j’ai finalement choisi de m’immerger dans la langue française. Depuis aussi longtemps que je me souvienne, j’adore les films français, la culture, l’art, et bien sûr la cuisine… mais principalement, j’aime la culture française de la philosophie, la sexualité… Toujours, je suis obsédée par les films d’art spécialisés et les films […]

(the) Editors

J’écoute d’Editors depuis 2005, quand ils ont fait leur premier CD, “The Back Room”. J’adore la voix de Tom Smith et leur musique, leurs paroles.  C’est bizarre de voir quelqu’un que j’ai écouté pendant 13 ans. Mais l’Editors sont très, très importants pour moi. He estado escuchando a los Editors desde 2005, cuando hicieron su […]

voyageurs / viajeros / travelers

¡Hemos estado viajando mucho, recientemente! El mayo pasado, estuve en Berlin durante un mes, la navidad pasada viajamos al País Vasco (en Francia y España), viajamos a Santa Barbara un mes después País Vasco, y fuimos a Palm Springs / Joshua Tree in el marzo pasado. We’ve traveled a lot recently! Last May, I was […]

more scenes from the desert

You definitely get to see things from a whole new perspective when you return to sites seen with kids. The Nugget loved climbing and all the wild rock formations (Skull Rock!) and the giant cacti. We also stopped to see the Cabazon Dinosaurs which, I didn’t find out until after is actually part of a […]

The Desert, Coachella Valley: Salton Sea, Slab City / East Jesus / Salvation Mountain

Over my Spring Break, the family and I went to Palm Springs. Husband and I had been there before – pre marriage, pre kid – and had good memories of Joshua Tree and hotels with hot springs. Having returned a decade later, I have to say that Palm Springs itself is underwhelming (though staying at […]