From our childhood sports broadcasts to the skies above Tacoma - it’s the Goodyear Blimp!

(Is it hanging out near the Puyallup Fair or did it get lost on the way to Lumen Field?)

Sitting by the Snoqualmie River, working on the last chapter of my book. 🌲✍️📖🦆

What I’m reading on vacation this week. The first two by writers I already love, and the third by one I’m reading for the first time.

My latest piece in Pacific NW Magazine. Will probably be my last one of 2025 because I need all the spare time I can find to get my book into my publisher on time by December. Glad to finish up this run with an article about a community-critical place in Pierce County.

My Christmas gift (to myself) arrived!!

Now I gotta wrap these up so my kids can watch me slowly unwrap them Xmas morning because it’s important they know Xmas isn’t just all about them and baby Jesus (it’s about me, too!)

Me: “I’ve got to just work, parent, and finish my book in 2025.”

Also me: “Sure, I’ll coach the boys again this winter.”

My first longform feature for the Seattle Times is on the cover of today’s Pacific NW Magazine! It’s my account of a weekend spent at the Washington coast with a crew of fun-loving Seattle artists celebrating “Clamchella.”

Here’s the piece online: www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-m...

This is me and my uncle Dave in 1988. He died five years later from AIDS. As of this morning, the book I’m writing about him is now under contract with University of Washington Press.

Article in print look like:

Reading two memoirs that are (in the chapters I’m on, at least) both set in Oregon. A weekend trip to Portland probably forthcoming. #books #amreading