Author: Caroline

A new decade! A wise editor once told me, “I wish I had the body I had in my 20s with the brain I have in my 30s.” Yeah, I get that now. What do I need to know about my 40s? Day 1 of my 40s: Learned that you can’t eat as much cake…

The kids get such a thrill out of feeding animals at the Olympic Game Farm, though driving through a herd of hungry bison makes us nervous. Some of the bison are bigger than the cars!

It felt SO GOOD to stretch my photo muscles and shoot a newspaper assignment again. I miss newspaper photography; it just doesn’t get to happen much in this chapter of my life. My photos and story about Sequim’s lavender farms are in The Seattle Times here. World’s worst photo assistants. I’d fire them, but I…

Before and after, summer hair chop! Photos by Paul.

A ferry ride never disappoints. Those views! The Seattle skyline, the mountains, and this time, we were even treated to a fire boat display.

What living with me is like: Green. No, white! No, green again!

The boys had been very quiet for a long time and I was getting suspicious. What were they up to? I found them outside, snuggled together, gently rocking in the tree swing. (The swing was a pandemic purchase that still gets a lot of use, unlike the 12-pack of canned tuna I panic bought at Costco…

The most beautiful loaf of sourdough I’ve ever seen. From Raquel’s Farm Stand on Bainbridge.

Two very patient kids went with me to scope out an enormous antique warehouse near the Costco in SoDo.

I have a love-hate relationship with IKEA. On one hand, I’ve been slowly de-IKEAizing our house over time. On the other hand, IKEA sends me a gift card and a free dessert for my birthday every year, so who am I to argue with that? I used the gift card to buy a new bathmat…