You, too, can walk with us.
We're just a bunch of folks, of various ages and abilities and speeds, out for a nice walk together. We show up once a month, whomever wants to amble on two feet, and we go from here to there in...
Walking Under Blue Skies
How dreamy to stroll under clear blue skies on a warm September afternoon, with neighbors from near and far. We had our second monthly Walk-n-Talk yesterday with a dozen two-footed walkers and three...
Bike SaFaRis: Safe Family Rides
Ignite an early enthusiasm for being on two wheels. Teach "bike sense" and street smarts to little ones. Gather people from the community for fun, conversation, fresh air and healthful exercise....
We Walked. We Talked.
People came in ones, twos and threes and gathered on the grassy knoll in the center of Burien's Town Square. Mothers and daughters. Couples. Clusters of friends. A man and his dog. And people...
Burien’s Walk-n-Talk
Burien's Walk-n-Talk is being launched this coming Sunday, August 7 at 2:00! Put on your comfy shoes and come for a casual Walk-n-Talk with friends and neighbors. On the first Sunday of every month,...
Nonna and Ziggy
There's some heavy petting going on, and purring fills the house. Nonna is queenlike on her fat cushion. And Ziggy - "Big Zig" - reigns as king from his high perches. Nonna is a 10-year-old,...
A Neighborly Salad
Part of what makes this feel like home is having my dear neighbors show up at my door with a fresh harvest of arugula - rucola in Italian - and radishes. I did have sweet people in Italy...
Crow in the Stewartia
Journal Entry: June 27, 7:00 a.m. Jet black crow in the Stewartia tree, and other morning birds singing. The Olympic range makes a ragged, still-snowy horizon to the west. My surroundings are...
Cheap Motel on a Muggy Night
Friday, June 24 Just after midnight last night I checked into a cheap motel along the highway in Atlanta. I had been traveling and in airports for close to 24 hours and I was tired. The muggy,...
Every Step
What a way to begin and end a journey… Embedded in the platform at the Cadorna station, leading in and out of Milano, is a slab of stone engraved with this phrase: "Every step I have taken in my...
Stop?
As a cyclist, I must be ALWAYS vigilant! This particular stop sign on the way to the bikes-only path, both amuses and frightens me. Stop? What stop? And this ain't no "California Rolling Stop!" This...
A Little Something Sweet
I just had to. I've been here in Italy for almost 2 months and my apartment here in Milano is just 3 doors away from the best pastry shop in the city, Pasticceria Spezia Milano. I hadn't been in yet...