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 Quoting Thomas B. Edsall in the NYTimes today: Countless analyses have demonstrated that Trump won the election by combining support from traditional Republican voters with a surge in backing from constituencies that contemporary economic and cultural developments have left behind. … Continue reading →

You might have missed noticing last night’s 5.8 earthquake 500 miles east of us in Helena, Montana–unless, of course, you observed the clothes swaying in the closet.  Actually Katherine first felt it as motion, as if the whole room were … Continue reading →

Mark your calendars folks, we’ve got a fun-filled July coming up! Seattle Chamber Music Festival: Music Under the Stars:. Every Friday this July from 7-10pm in the Central Plaza. Yoga and Zumba classes: Taught by talented fitness instructors from the Washington Athletic … Continue reading →

The weather forecast for the 4th suggests clear skies and 63°F on the 26th Floor Observation Deck.  Since there is never enough outdoor seating, consider bringing up any handy folding chairs. And remember that there is also indoor seating (at … Continue reading →

From Gordon Gray

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When a local photographer sees a neat picture like this, the natural question arises: Where was it taken from?  And these days, one has to consider the possibility of a camera on a drone instead of a tall building and … Continue reading →

Never see the Space Needle between those downtown buildings? I suspect that it is possible only from the balconies in the -04 stack. Here’s a telephoto of it: Of course, you used to see a lot more of the Space … Continue reading →

Cold Spring Harbor Labs on Long Island is primarily about research, only secondarily about grad students.  Most of these people are post-docs, selected from a worldwide pool of applicants without nationality restrictions; getting in for a few years is quite … Continue reading →

On a drier day, I shot pictures of that improbably tall apartment building at 7th & Cherry whose crane has engendered so much dinner table conversation. Then there is the corner of Boren & James with two facing projects.  

“Those who are guided by kindness hardly even notice evil in another but pay attention instead to everything good and true in the person. When they do find anything bad or false they put a good interpretation on it.” – … Continue reading →

Below is a new map which delineates the hard to navigate Seattle Hills. We’re appropriately marked “red” on Cherry and Columbia but “green” on 8th and 9th at Skyline. This is an attempt to help us navigate the sometimes difficult … Continue reading →

Amazing pictures around the world – oh my. Click here.

Coronado Sunset with Point Loma in the distance From Wikipedia: Francisco Vázquez de Coronado y Luján (1510 – 22 September 1554) was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who led a large expedition from Mexico to present-day Kansas through parts of … Continue reading →

“I don’t know where he got the idea that screaming ‘fake news’ over and over would get him out of doing his homework.”

The web site InvestigAge has an interesting list of articles for those of us in CCRC’s: What about social isolation in a Life Care facility? How disruptive it is to move from one care level to another? Does sexual activity … Continue reading →