On Saturday, December 1, I was shopping in downtown Seattle when huge snowflakes started to fall. I was overjoyed — we never get snow! Not much of it stuck, and snow gave way to rain that night. Then more rain came, and the rain kept coming.
Seattle is known for being rainy but […]
Big news today in the world of car-sharing: Cambridge, Mass.-based Zipcar and Seattle-based Flexcar will merge. The combined company will be called simply Zipcar, and all Flexcar members will be absorbed into the other company’s base. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has more coverage of the merger. I was surprised to see that “neither […]
Tomorrow is Seattle’s local primary election. I received a pamphlet in the mail but hadn’t intended to read it or vote — the election is only a primary, and there hasn’t been much about it in the local media anyway. I thumbed through the pamphlet anyway and found one of the most bizarre challengers […]
Mark of BicycleMark’s Communique wrote to me last week: he found my writings about Israel last year and asked if I would like to talk to him about the experience. Mark’s podcast covers “undereported news and global concerns.” Both I and my cousin Hezi spoke with Mark about kibbutzim in Israel and Mark’s […]
All around my house you can hear fireworks going off. It’s indescribable to stand outside in the cold and snow holding a Terrible Towel in one hand and a glass of champagne in the other. Pittsburgh has finally won its fifth Super Bowl and the city of Pittsburgh is erupting!
Most Pittsburgh schools, including […]