I've written about so-called "nature deficit disorder" and the fact that old-fashioned summer camps – classic overnight camps that focus on nature and the outdoors – are becoming an endangered species...
Two different acquaintances recently e-mailed me links to Despair, Inc. I'm sure this is because I blog about quirky items, not a suggestion that I am the target customer for the Austin-based purveyor...
Former Seattle Mayor Charles Royer recently went public with a new group, the Middle Income Housing Alliance of Seattle, aimed at dealing with the most obvious problem facing the region: it's getting...
As the Internet behemoth introduces more online services, it's finding ways to gather data about you that are increasingly expansive, specific, and valuable. Is it time to get nervous, or should we...
Seattle may be the home of Amazon, a company about to try to reinvent the book with a new electronic version called The Kindle, but it's also a place with a traditional bookish culture. That was on...
