Confession #1: I thought a clam gun was an actual gun. I mean, not a gun gun. As I listened to my fellow writers, Oregon natives who remember back when razor clam hunting involved a shovel, discuss during dinner how careful you have to be not to break the clam’s shell when using the gun,… [Read more…]
April 22, 2011
I considered titling this My First Press Trip. Like a child’s board book. Sally’s First Tooth. Cheesy, right? But this month I was lucky enough to land what was indeed my first press trip as a travel writer, and pretending that the experiences that followed are old hat to me seems decidedly not transparent. The… [Read more…]
October 5, 2010
On yaHighway, we hold a weekly Road Trip Wednesday, where we ask a writing/reading question and all the contributors answer on our personal blogs. If you want to participate on your own blog, just post the link in the comments section of YAH and we’ll check it out! This week’s question: You’re Packing for a… [Read more…]
September 26, 2010
A few weeks ago I posted my “iQuit: Technology Detox” plan. The idea was to be 100% Internet (and gadget) free for 24 hours. At the time, it was something I was seriously craving – I was teched-out – and I wondered how long it would be before I gave in and grabbed the old… [Read more…]
August 30, 2010
I’ve spent the past few nights at a couple different jazz clubs in Seattle, trying to figure out what it is I love about them. Aside from the jazz, I mean. Because it seems like my experiences at these places would only be worthy of the “Music” part of my blog’s title, but it turns… [Read more…]
July 28, 2010
What could be better than a trip to LA for a killer conference and to meet a few of my best writer pals? How about a two day stopover in San Diego? Kristin and I landed yesterday morning, and in the last thirty something hours Kirsten Hubbard has led us on a crazy whirlwind tour… [Read more…]
July 13, 2010
From My Sphere of Domesticity: Two for Tuesday! Post two of anything: book reviews, pictures, quotes, poems, songs, videos, rants, shout outs, whatever floats your boat. Just connect them somehow. That’s it. I’m not debating myself – I’m referring to actual views. Over the last few weeks I’ve been looking at Seattle from lots of… [Read more…]
May 25, 2010
Last November, a great travel website called Tripbase started something fun. Katie Sorene wrote a blog post highlighting her three “best kept travel secrets,” then tagged five other travel bloggers to do the same. And they did the same, and so on, until over 200 bloggers, including the likes of author Rolf Potts and Seattle’s… [Read more…]
May 21, 2010
When you’re part of a huge online travel community, you’re bound to run into other roaming members every now and again. I’ve been a part of the Matador team for just over a year now, and so far I’ve been lucky enough to meet two of my co-workers on the other side of the screen.… [Read more…]
May 26, 2011
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