Saturday 8/8/09   Last Day Up and awake and watching Discovery Network Shark Week.  The clock is ticking.  Today is our last day together in Seattle.  Tomorrow The Husband returns to work in New York City and My Kid and I continue on to two weeks with My Parents in Montana.  Last year the husband [...]

  I thought we would spend some time at the Pacific Science Center with My Kid.  But, that didn’t happen.  We enjoyed hanging out in the hotel room as a family until it was time for The Husband to go have lunch with a former work colleague.  My Kid and I went swimming in the [...]

Friday 8/7/09   We’re moving slowly today.  I was awake at 7:30 am but those people I travel with weren’t.  I ended up reading for a while (The Husband’s copy of The Fall of the House of Bush.)  My book is Suzanna Clarke’s A House in Fez about restoring a house in Morocco but I [...]

  Thursday 8/6/09   We had breakfast at Voula’s on Northlake Way–yum–with an old theatre friend who is planning her big move to NYC this fall–Yeah!  I’m looking forward to having this friend in New York.  We’re the same age.  We’re both from Montana.  We’re both actresses.  We both have one daughter (but her’s is [...]

  Wednesday 8/5/09   After a late start we got on the road for a day trip to Deception Pass State Park.  We chose a northern destination because we had to drop off The Mother-In-Law’s surger at the old school sewing machine repair shop at 200th and Aurora.  There were some beautiful old singer treadle [...]

8/4/09   The highlight of the day fro My Kid and The Mother-In-Law was lunch at the Rainforest Cafe in Southcenter Mall which has been inexplicably renamed “Westfield”.  As an aspiring downtown Seattle creative person I never went to that mall.  Then when we got pregnant and had a baby we started to go there [...]

Sometimes the simple things take me so long, like logging onto the internet using the hotel’s wifi connection that by the time I have my Clownmommy dashboard on the screen I forgot what I had intended to write about. I don’t know how much of my “writing time” I wasted hitting buttons and guessing at [...]

I’m sitting here ALONE  in the bar in the lobby of the Westin, the hotel that looks like a silo, in downtown Seattle.  I have in front of me my laptop which I haven’t touched since we got off the plane and a pretty lemondrop martini.  The Husband took My Kid for a walk so [...]

The day before we left for Seattle there was a party for neighborhood friends who are moving to Uganda.  I was shocked by how tall were these little girls, all going into 4th grade, My Kid among them.  We met when they were babies and our talk was about diapers and strollers and weaning and [...]

something for my blog because I can’t get online at the airport Thursday July 30, 6:05pm JetBlue     6:05  We’re in the JetBlue terminal, sitting “outside” in the middle of the concourse in front of 5IVESTEAK.  I am alone at the table at the moment.  Ken and Miya have gone to MUJI to buy [...]