Category: Blogging in Place
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A reason to smile at Zoka
This simple placard … and the Kenyacaragua 🙂 [In case the hyperlink to the photo breaks, the caption reads “Smile … you are simply amazing”]
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Ethereal Cafe
This morning, I was on my way to Lighthouse Roasters in Fremont, when I passed Ethereal Cafe & CDs (note: web site is "under construction" but it can be found in the physical world at 254 NE 45th St, Seattle), which had a banner advertising fair trade Kenyan coffee, organic teas and vegetarian & vegan…
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Fremont Coffee
I’m resuming my practice of blogging in place — visiting [third] places and blogging about them while there. I’d actually taken some notes at some earlier places, following my initial foray to Cafe Solstice way back in February, and may post those retroactively (retrospectively?). Today, I’m sitting on the porch at Fremont Cafe (in the…
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Purple Cafe & Wine Bar
47.7315979401173-122.142146586099 The Woodinville restaurant has a newly expanded space, food menu and wine selection – all good!
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Town of Grace
47.77799287-122.15017421 Population: 12; not to be confused with the State of Grace (population: unknown)
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Cafe Solstice
I’m making an effort to spend more time in different places, especially “third places”, beyond home and work (the “first” two places, according to Oldenberg), to situate myself in physical contexts where technology might play a constructive role in creating new opportunities for awareness and interaction among co-inhabitants. 47.65707120-122.31323815 Last week, I visited Cafe Solstice,…
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Been There, Blogged That
One of my goals in starting this blog is to blog in and about the places I visit or want to visit. I already started taking notes about some places I visited last week (before I worked up the aforementioned gumption to go “live” with this blog), and will be posting them here, retrospectively. It…
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Lengthen the Spine
Last night, I attended my first yoga class in years, at the Hatha Yoga Center. Ki McGraw led the class through several iterations of Sun Salutations, a few variations of Downward Dog, some [tri]angle poses and finished off with some Pranayama. It felt good to stretch out so fully … and recognize how inflexible I…