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Mango Power Girl Turns 1

Today marks one year of Mango Power Girl, my wife’s web site for original recipes, food photography, and related bits. Congratulations MPG!
Read more about Mango Power Girl :)
“By the power of mango!”

MPG :: Our Edible Garden

Mango Power Girl published Our Edible Garden, an inventory of our edibles and our motivations for joining the urban gardening movement in Seattle.
This tour de notre jardin links to F00Ds with its edibles, such as her Applemint Gimlet and her Chilled Mint Tea. No doubt she will update it now and then to track […]

War More Perceived, War More Real

Ron Richardson of Seattle keeps counts of American war dead and injured in Iraq on a hand-written sign in his yard. As the count of U.S. Iraq war dead reached 4,000 in March 2008, the sign, Ron Richardson, the count, and the war all received more attention. Mike Lewis at the Seattle P-I […]

The Haas Foundation

The Saul & Dayee G. Haas Foundation improves secondary education for those in need in Washington State. Their work involves 600 secondary schools — that’s 53% of the secondary schools in Washington, including both public and private schools.
While modernizing the efforts of volunteers and staff, the Foundation has created online tools of […]

Pike Place Market, 1969

The following is “A University of Washington Film” from 1969, produced when the threat of losing Seattle’s Pike Place Market to development was at its worst.

I found the film’s soundtrack clever, affecting me enough that I had to wonder why. It opens with accordion music, crowd noise, and market speak. The accordion sets […]

Noonhat — Toss Your Social Salad

For all of human history, great conversations, meetings, and celebrations have happened over food. Your daily lunch is probably not often historic, but while wedged into our working lives, lunch done right is a small slice of greater humanity. It can be refreshing and even inspiring to step out of your routine.
Try Noonhat […]

Knowledge As Power — Everyday Democracy

Knowledge As Power offers accessible information on legislative action and education for citizen participation in the legislative process. A preview of their services is already available for Washington State, although as an organization they are just a few months old.
These are my notes from one of five sessions at a Seattle Net Tuesday event in […]

Flickr 720 :: Seattle from Safeco

Although the roof can "close" on the Seattle Mariners’ Safeco Field, it’s more of an umbrella so even then there is a lot of open space. Either way, you are outside in Seattle, and that openness is a triumph.
With the two bold colors, this is also a Seattle sandwich on field and sky […]

Flickr 720 :: Looking Up

Goal: not just another shot of Seattle’s Space Needle. Here, shot through the glass ceiling of its ground-level structure, in line to buy a ticket for the observation deck.
View it larger by clicking the small size to the left, to appreciate the glass ceiling’s effect.
For another, very different look at the Needle, on […]

Flickr 720 :: Fluid

Elliott Bay of Cascadia’s Puget Sound, with Olympic Mountains, from the Bainbridge Island-to-Seattle ferry’s aft.
Fluid on a longer timeline, the land firmly divides fleeting impressions in water and sky.
I am reminded of the television series Cosmos and the ending moments of the final episode, “Who Speaks For Earth?” when Carl Sagan said:
For we […]