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Decorative hermit with a titanium spine. Writes about food, kitchen gardens, the sharing economy and solitary bees. Runs the Little Free Bakery Columbia City Seattle. 5th book coming early 2026, 6th in early 2027. Cookietarian. she/her
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Holy SHIT, Jets! Go get it.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

"It's harder to sew eyes to this than I expected" sounds less friendly than the actual thing now looks

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Here's to May Day, weekends, 40-hour work weeks, overtime pay and severance packages. Collective bargaining is the only love language.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Thanks, ECB, I absolutely shouted incomprehensible angry sounds when reading this quote. Definitely zero benefit to the contents of, idk, the Arboretum. Or Kubota. Or Seward Park.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

The magical toothpicks that hold my spine together have gone on strike and sitting is particularly awful until I see a surgeon ~in July~. I have a vast number of approaching deadlines for 2 books, so I am seeing what happens if I write on my phone (lying down) and edit on my laptop (sitting).

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Cue the sound of evil laughter

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Dropped my phone amid the order process in homage to Grover as a chaotic waiter

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

29 different bookstores, 10 days to get the passport filled. I've done events at one of my neighborhood stores in other years and they were hectic and zany joy. www.seattlebookstoreday.com

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

I love this and am also grateful to be spared whatever happened in the middle

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Shout-out to whoever made the "Jumbo lot will to become a Trader Joe's" April Fools' Day joke in the neighborhood fb group more than a decade ago. Hundreds of giddy people fell for it. Also, Retail Inequality: Reframing the Food Desert Debate by Kenneth Kolb is a good add-on to this column.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

I’m the news editor for Chrysalis, and I’d love to get pitches on news stories from trans youth!

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

A decade ago I'd ride a usually sleepy 6am bus from downtown Seattle to the U District. On a mayhem day, a regular fellow commuter said to me "this early it's mostly people getting to work, the rest of em are just knuckleheads." That became how I think of routine passersby, we're all knuckleheads.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

I know this and usually it's all fine but in a documentary trailer I watched last night a guy said "becoming a literal ghost town" and I absolutely whisper-yelled "ok show me the ghosts" in response.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments