Making Streets Into Food Courts A week ago, December 27, 2020, we left our small town motel room to find a coffee shop. What we found was a mixture of delight and trouble. A block away, we turned onto a … Continue reading
Category Archives: Resistance
Can One Person Resist Woke?
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Some of you will have read White Fragility. Some of you will have read about it. I haven’t read it (but I’ve read reviews). I’ve read that it claims that white people are racist all day, every day, and that … Continue reading
Trumpism vs Wokeism
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Note: So as not to confuse people who are searching for articles on Asian cooking, I have edited my spelling, changing wokism to wokeism. There are lots of bad reasons for voting for Trump. But recently I’ve learned of a … Continue reading
They Them Their
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I thought I was ready to encounter they, them, and their. I don’t pretend to understand all of the angles of transgenderism and gender fluidity, but I had thought I was on a live and let live track. I guess … Continue reading
Voting a Straight D Ticket
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Ballots are coming! What shall I do? No, I’m not debating Trump or Biden. I don’t mean Culp or Inslee. I’m talking about candidates further down the ballot. Specifically, I’m talking about our Secretary of State, Kim Wyman. I’m talking … Continue reading
Before and After
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Good news! I was not the only person who didn’t like this wall. Other people fixed it before I got there, but I did do a little bit to help it along! Yup, I’m now a graffiti artist. My walk … Continue reading
Pandemic Reflections #6
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Masks Are the New Socks I know I’m not the only person with a sock fetish because even book stores sell socks. They’re everywhere! But they have competition now: masks. Yup. Pretty masks, cute masks, funny masks, distinguished masks, masks … Continue reading
How Trump Wins, 2020
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No, I’m not an expert. But I can tell you that I was much more nervous leading up to Election Day 2016 than my friends. Why? I’d spent the weekend prior watching Trump ads online, ads that hadn’t played in … Continue reading
Reading Seattle’s Tea Leaves
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Im not alone. That’s the extent of the good news. Tim Burgess, former city council member, Kathleen O’Toole, our police chief during consent decree reforms, The Seattle Times editorial board, and others have gone public with their concerns about the … Continue reading
But She’s Not ADOS!
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Oops! Kamala Harris might not be White, but is she the right kind of Black? A new acronym as crept into our jargon recently: ADOS. It stands for American Descendant of Slavery. Senator Harris is likely a descendent of slavery, … Continue reading
Seattle City Council Budget Talks
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Select Budget Committee timeline (contains a link to sign up for public comment two hours before the council’s August 3, August 5, and August 10 meetings, or a link to submit comments online.) I’ve been listening to the Seattle City … Continue reading
Dangerous Art
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Remember the Buddhas of Bamyan? After saying they would leave them alone, the Taliban changed course in 2001 and destroyed the statues carved into sandstone on a remote part of the ancient silk road west of Kandahar. The area had … Continue reading