My Life
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Fine Tuning My Online Presence, Again. (Yes it’s TL;DR)
As we get older, we should all be constantly reviewing what is taking up space in our houses, and in our minds. Our time becomes more precious every day.
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International Octopus Day
One of my favorite holidays of the year falls on October 8th (Octo 8!) It's a day that brings out the creativity in artists, writers and sea creature enthusiasts around the world.
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Queer Sci Fi’s newest LGBTQ+ speculative fiction anthology is here
Queer Sci Fi's newest LGBTQ+ speculative fiction anthology is here: Clarity. And there's a giveaway.
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Clarity
I'm happy to announce that my flash-fiction story, "Magic Mirror" was chosen for this year's Queer Sci-Fi anthology.
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Sixth and Lenora
The Sixth and Lenora Building wasn't always called that. When I worked there in 1989-1991, it was called the United Airlines Building.
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Seattle Stories: Turning 21
Do you remember what you did on your 21st birthday? I do. I just don't remember WHERE.
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Seattle Stories: The Granada
Hello Muddah, Hello Fadda, here I'm living at, The Granada.
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Seattle Stories: The Brasserie Pittsbourg
Playing tourist for a day in old Seattle.
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Seattle Stories: The Salmon and the Turtle
Who remembers when there was an apartment at the top of the Space Needle?
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Seattle Stories: Bordello Buddies
Meta levels of Seattle Vintage: Here's a fake-vintage "1877" photo taken of me and my besties at Sundance Photo Parlor in downtown Seattle, in 1977.
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Seattle Stories: Finishing School
Once upon a time, when I was 21, I went to Finishing School. I really did.
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Seattle Stories: Fat Tuesday
Fat Tuesday, 1977. Seattle's first one! My roommate and I wandered around in a happy, slightly-tipsy daze, not looking for anything in particular, yet somehow finding plenty of everything.
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Seattle Stories: Lattice Entertain You
This story is a bit long but I hope you find it worth the read. There’s a twisty ending and shocking photos, oh my!
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Seattle Stories: Credit Where Credit’s Due
The misadventures of a young independent woman in the mid-1970s trying to get a credit card.
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Seattle Stories: My Year of Living Dangerously
It's the Summer of 1978. I'm at the edge of Lake Washington along with hundreds of other revelers. It's Seafair.
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Aplets and Cotlets and Farewell, Oh My
Iconic candies created in Washington State: Almond Roca, Frangos, and Aplets & Cotlets. And I love them all. when I was much younger, my mom got me hooked on Aplets & Cotlets, a…
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Caribou Farms Annual Report
As the veggie garden, grapevines, raspberry patch, herb gardens and scattered mints wind down for the season, my harvesting and foraging is nearly done for 2020. I thought I would share this year’s…
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A Guided Tour of My Girl Cave
When we moved into this house 2ish years ago, our lifestyle changed a *lot*. This house is newer, better built and well maintained, unlike the old house. It even has a spacious, well-landscaped…
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Which Came First? The Chicken or the Pen?
As much as I’ve always loved the original rustic chicken logo created in 2009 by a friend, I felt it was time for an update. Even though I’m not an artist, and clumsy…
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Seattle Stories: Learning To Adult
This is going to be personal and probably a little maudlin. By way of explanation, a younger relative of mine is on the cusp of one of life’s greatest adventures – waving farewell…
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Happy New Year?
Try googling ‘alone on new years eve’ and you’ll be inundated with article titles that include the words ‘cope’, ‘freaking out’, ‘hate’, ‘depressed’ and ‘survive’. Really? Really? I love New Years eve. And…
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Social “Me”-dia
Social Media. Me. Unlike peanut butter and chocolate, these are not easily blended. I use social media constantly, daily, but I’m always uneasy about it. I’m familiar with the mechanics of Facebook, Twitter,…
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Seattle Stories: 2012, meet 1977. I think you two might get along.
I have been inadvertently plunged back into the 1970’s this weekend. Firstly, I learned yesterday that one of the biggest influences on the evolution of my sense of humor, Peter Bergman, 1/4 of…
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Antisocial Networking
(sometimes gossip, assumptions and the overwhelming ‘everywhereness’ of the web gets to me. This is one of those days. Just unloading a bit so I can move along.) “… so Molly’s a bit…
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Hay Internet? Sign up or sign in on THIS.
I am having an odd day online. It must be something that’s come un-set on my computer, cause this many websites and two different browsers can’t all go braindead at once, can they?…