Music and Cats

A picture paints a thousand words. I’ll let you work out which four thousand these represent.

This story begins with a bottle of Washington state syrah, opened for a Friday afternoon office happy hour and left, half full, on the table as people drifted away to their weekend plans. “Take it home,” someone suggested, as I recorked the bottle. So I did, and drank a glass the next day, and then […]

Sasha is very pleased with himself. Never mind the demonic reflecting eyes; those big splayed toes indicate one contented cat. Why, you might be asking, is Sasha so pleased?

Each Tuesday morning, I drive into a suburban office park at the north end of the Mercer Slough, Lake Washington’s largest wetland tributary. Small office buildings are scattered across several acres; narrow driveways meander through the landscape, bridging waterways and curving around clusters of trees. Where the asphalt of each parking lot ends, the swamp […]

So tell me: when you saw this picture, did you want to reach out and rub the little bit of sleep from Miss Lyra’s left eye? I took this photo a couple of weeks ago, and each time I look at it, that’s what I want to do. And, in fact, I did that very […]