Echobaby

Frost loves the 4th of July.  The 4th and Halloween are close favorites - he says that the one he prefers "depends on the situation...

The red, white and blue foil balloons are aloft in Safeway and the girl behind the deli counter is frosting cupcakes to look like hambur...

Imogen, the flamingo from Australia is the new Reigning Queen of Burlesque aka Miss Exotic World 2012.  The flamingos at Seattle Zoo are a s...

Ten am and ninety two degrees in Vegas this morning but I haven't been out of the ambient 74 of the hotel. I am sitting on the monogra...

Its after midnight and I have been up for 21 hours without sleep.  I am sure this is why I lost $6 at the 1c slot machines and I smell like ...

This afternoon I went down to the strip.   It was so hot outside that the soles of my shoes became tacky on the asphalt.   When I smiled,...

I know we are very Seattle people now, Josh embodies the NW idiom of wearing fleece all year or going out in a t-shirt in winter, but jolly ...

I did a writing course years ago and the only thing I can remember from it is that every good story follows the cycle of conflict, crisis an...

Mervyn (Shannon's Grandfather) canoeing in France in 1938 Today, in  Seattle , we went canoeing:  Shannon  steering at the back and ...

What struck me when I arrived in Seattle was how much Wren and Frost have grown. Several times during the first day Wren held up his five fi...