Aged Eggnog

In November 2020, during a pandemic lockdown, I found myself wanting to experiment. Since our favorite place to buy nog wasn’t open due to COVID (shout out to Sun Liquor in Seattle!), I decided to make my own. This nog recipe combines elements from several sources of inspiration, including historical information, recipes from Amy Pennington, […]

The Quarantine Chronicles

It’s really been a crazy 3+ months. The COVID-19 quarantine started with just a general sense of uncertainty, and maybe even a little excitement. Getting to work from home made me really happy! And locking down an entire city, region, country, world is like nothing we’ve seen before, so I was glued to the news. […]

40 Years.

40 years ago, my family and I were heading home from church late on a Sunday morning when we stopped at the park near our house and got out to witness the ginormous mushroom-like cloud of ash coming from a newly erupted Mt. St. Helens. For the next week or so, ash rained down on […]

I quit. Therefore I am?

“Quitting launched my comedy career… After quitting comedy, I became the most talked about comedian on the planet.” –Hannah Gadsby in her “Three Ideas” TED talk While I have absolutely no audience or artistic “career” such as Hannah Gadsby, I decided to quit trying (and failing) to write regularly, and promptly gave up all hope […]