Monthly Archive for: ‘April, 2009’

Good Food (2008)

A month or two ago, Sky and I watched the documentary Good Food with his mom. It was a well done, timely documentary about eating and growing foods in the Pacific Northwest. Some if it made me cry, because I’m …

Backup plans

Sky and I were talking a few weeks ago about what we’d do if we got laid off. We reasoned that staying in a big city with no jobs is expensive, and that we didn’t want to make a move …

Why Don’t You Hit Me With Your Best Shot?

I was driving to work this morning and Pat Benatar’s “Hit Me With Your Best Shot” came on the radio.

I immediately delved into this fantasy world in which I was a single career gal and it was 1986 and …

Parks Department employee Iris Adams, 1951

I have the Seattle Municipal Archives as a “friend” on flickr and they always provide the most interesting pictures!

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Bookasaurus

I’ve been sitting around with time on my hands, which means sitting around reading. I just finished a great, funny young adult book called Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before (you can read my review on Goodreads if …

Cancer Can Suck It

I couldn’t find an uplifting cancer photo, so this will be a text only post. You can go ahead and imagine a cheerful cancer picture right above this writing, if you wish.

I don’t have the cancer, but someone I …

Joe Mathelete Explains Today’s Marmaduke

I’ve never really understood most of the newspaper comics – they are either above or below my reading level, I guess. Maybe that’s why I find this blog so hysterical: JOE MATHLETE EXPLAINS TODAY’S MARMADUKE.

Another great newspaper comic …

Silent Light (2007)

My favorite movie watching experiences usually start with Sky saying “There’s a movie playing across the street that starts in 5 minutes, want to go?”

When I know about a movie – the theme, the actors, the setting – I …