I’ve found my home. I love Seattle only second to my favorite European cities – Amsterdam, Prague, Lisbon. But since living in Europe isn’t feasible right now, Seattle is, by far, my #1. Originally, we’d talked about living here for a few years and I was pushing to get back to the northeast as soon […]
A friend of mine sent me this article last week: Do you have the balls to really change the food system? There are parts of it where I could see it coming off as condescending, though I think this article is well targeted towards the faux-real foodies, the ones who – like she said, watched […]
When we first announced that we were moving up North, from Santa Monica to Seattle, oh, how people scoffed. They told us that we’d get sick of it, that the gray and the rain would drive us mad. It wasn’t just people from SoCal who told us this, though the people from SoCal sneered the […]
If you ever come to Seattle, I highly, HIGHLY recommend putting a stop at the Ballard Farmer’s Market on your itinerary. It’s year-round, so no excuses. I, stupidly, have been sticking to farmer’s markets in our neck of the woods for the past few months. Though Ballard was, immediately, one of our favorite parts of […]
I went to my first proper yoga class today, since Nugget was born. My last class was exactly 2 days before he made his grande entrance. I frantically tried to practice at home, on my own, a few times, but I don’t have the self discipline to really do so. The class setting gives me […]
There’s been a lot about the rising number of only children in the news lately. It amuses me to see that it’s big news and that everyone thinks they’re an expert on only children now. Let me tell you – being an only child during a time when the number of only children I’ve met […]
It’s summer. Summer means all quiet on the blog front. There’s a lot going on here, and yet there’s not that much. I’ve had a bit of freelance work coming in the past couple weeks with the promise of more. We’ll see – the person who promises it has a tendency to tell me about […]
… when blogs go silent & the number of daily readers plummets. I am obviously no exception. I’m busy running around to farmers markets, collecting pick ups at my CSA*, walking, finishing the house & plotting our belated honeymoon. Which, by the way, we’ve finally come to an absolute conclusion. I’m a little bummed about […]
I did a search for farmer’s markets on the east side* and found LOTS. Enough that I could go to at least one (sometimes two or three) each day of the week. Yesterday, I went to the one in Carnation, expecting great things, from what I’d read on the website. I was a little disappointed, […]
I have to say, I’m pretty damned proud of myself. I haven’t been all talk lately, but following all the practices that I claim to believe in so strongly. This week I signed us up for a farm share with Root Connection. For about $30/week (payable in monthly installments from June through October), you get […]
Well. Everyone posted about their mother’s day, so I’ll post about mine! A couple of weeks ago, we were watching Top Chef Masters and during the introduction, I yelled, “There’s one in Seattle! We should go!” Mr Nikki agreed, and then we promptly forgot about it. Well, *I* forgot about it. Mr Nikki did not. […]
Yesterday, we went downtown right before Pike Place was closing. (The sky was gray, it was very, very windy and it was closing in the hour – the crowds were manageable! And I hate to say, because *I* was a tourist once, but sometimes I wish Pike Place was a “locals only” kind of place, […]
