Month: January 2015

Tosca is All That

January 13, 2015
Things so often disappoint in direct proportion to how highly anticipated they are. The Blarney Stone is a tourist trap; the Mannekin Pis is only...

Former Life With Oscar

January 11, 2015
So much of family life is caught in this picture. A preschooler reaching for a cat; a cat standing on a laptop; cold medicine cluttering...

Solstafir at KEXP

January 8, 2015
We interrupt our regularly scheduled wordiness to bring you this:...

2014 in Review

January 6, 2015
The WordPress.com statistics helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Traffic The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people....

Home Mountain

January 4, 2015
Our home mountain is Stevens Pass. This year the snow has been slow in coming, but in 2008, we got so much snow we could...