Seattle is known for its Internet entrepreneurship, coffee, rain, Earthy-granola crunchy lifestyle preferences, and the great outdoors. Let’s be blunt here–there are no fat people in Seattle. There are about as many vegan restauarant choices as there are Starbucks, and after inhaling plates of organic tofu and sprouts, the Seattle residents don’t hesitate to go…
Author: katrina
Sleepless in Seattle
Well, it’s not quite 6 am Pacific Time, and I can’t sleep because I’m still on East Coast time, so let me tell you a story. On January 10, 1998, I drove into a fog in a four-year-old Geo Metro full of stuff. I had been on the road all day, and my boyfriend at…
The Cost of Congestion
About three weeks ago, I stopped traffic in New York–not in the Marilyn Monroe way. More like in the bumper-to-bumper-fender-bender kind of way. Except this was more than a fender bender and unfortunately also my fault. My crime? I sneezed in heavy traffic when I was supposed to brake. My penalty? The cost of repairing…
Scenes from Keuka Lake
Hikin’… Golfin’… Wavin’… Watchin’… Paintin’… Smilin’.
Keuka Lake 2007
Maybe it’s because I grew up in the region, but I assumed people knew “The Fingerlakes” the way people knew the Great Lakes. Today, I was proven wrong–repeatedly. We came home last night after a picture postcard, sunny, blue-sky week on Keuka Lake, and during the 24 hours since our return I have discovered that…