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Communicating Abroad: Keeping it Simple
It was our second or third morning in Zurich, in the breakfast room just off the lobby of the hotel where we were staying. A gentleman at a table near me tried to tell the server that the used plate...
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Paris: A Review
So there I was in Paris for a month earlier this year, living la belle vie, nothing but time to wander, read, eat, write, ponder, drink, consider, explore. It was glorious, as you can imagine....
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Culinary Conversation on San Juan Island
It’s funny, much as I usually abhor ruts and routine, I can be quite the creature of habit sometimes. Which, in the case of visiting the San Juan Islands in the Northwest corner of Washington state,...
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Leavenworth Retreat: Sleeping Lady
In the organic garden, winding down after a thriving summer The shuttle bus was free, so there was no reason to complain. Not that we would have, anyway. It’s Oktoberfest season after all, revelry...
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Oaxaca: Color and Flavors Abound
Templo de Santo Domingo de Guzman, grand enough from the exterior, extraordinary decor inside I realized I’d taken a lot of photos when I got that error message saying my 4GB media card was full....
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Road Trip: Wenatchee
When my beloved 1992 Jetta was hit with some minor but worthy-of-being-deemed-‘totaled’ damage a couple of years ago, I got myself a new VW that invariably came with tons more automatic doodads and...
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Feasting on Portland
It’s one of those photo-ops-missed that I’ve thought about more than a few times in the past year — arriving in Portland on a Sunday afternoon, looking down on the sidewalk and seeing a “Feast...
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Sipping at Feast
If hotel prices in Portland this weekend are any indication, this year’s Feast Portland is a pretty big draw. Taking over the city, maybe. I’m going to be doing some hotel-hopping, chasing around the...
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Torrone with Almonds
It’s a funny thing, coming home with a suitcase full of treasures from a delightful adventure abroad. The less common the destination and the more distinctive the treats acquired, the more...
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Inn at Langley: Bucolic Modernism
Whidbey Island is one among many beloved destinations for folks in the Puget Sound area, popular for day-trip escapes from the city, second homes and get-away weekends with friends. Walking the...
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Palm Springs Get-Away
It’s rampant this time of year….Seattleites running away to find a dose of warmth and sunshine wherever they can. Facebook posts of toes in the sand, fruity cocktails on the beach, ocean sunsets,...
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Oysters in Paris for Jon Rowley
It was 6 or 7 days into my trip to France last month when I first saw the link to a GoFundMe campaign on behalf of Jon Rowley, telling his huge circle of friends and colleagues that he was facing a...
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A Return to Dijon
The Cathedral Saint Benigne I thought it was hilarious at the time, during that visit I made years back to the city of Nîmes in the south of France. I don’t know of any historic record that my last...
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Glorious Tarte Tatin
My first stab at making tarte tatin came back in high school and was a terrible flop. I’d never had tarte tatin before, and even without an existing point of reference I knew something wasn’t right....
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My Travel Bug
A friend nailed it in a recent email, lamenting how hard it is to coordinate our work schedules to plan a group trip… “Why can’t we all just be independently wealthy and travel the world at our...
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Well-Being and Health
Cozy and warm. Peanut butter toast and coffee. Word puzzles and Saturday morning radio. Mise en place laid out for an apple cobbler needing to be baked. There were plenty of things tempting me to stay...
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Sipping at Feast
If hotel prices in Portland this weekend are any indication, this year’s Feast Portland is a pretty big draw. Taking over the city, maybe. I’m going to be doing some hotel-hopping, chasing around the...
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Torrone with Almonds
It’s a funny thing, coming home with a suitcase full of treasures from a delightful adventure abroad. The less common the destination and the more distinctive the treats acquired, the more...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Inn at Langley: Bucolic Modernism
Whidbey Island is one among many beloved destinations for folks in the Puget Sound area, popular for day-trip escapes from the city, second homes and get-away weekends with friends. Walking the...
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Palm Springs Get-Away
It’s rampant this time of year….Seattleites running away to find a dose of warmth and sunshine wherever they can. Facebook posts of toes in the sand, fruity cocktails on the beach, ocean sunsets,...
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