12
Jun
Architecture and writing rooms.
The table is dark wood with a walnut swirl, 5-6 feet in diameter. It’s nestled in the southeast
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Writings
12
Jun
On what designers can learn from icebergs and Ernest Hemingway.
My favorite passages In Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast are the direct, austere descriptions of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Painting
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12
Jun
Tuesday, September 16th. The shoes I wore to meet the architect....
Everything I ever needed to know about love and yearning I learned from loving books. Meeting for the first time
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12
Jun
On Seattle, hungry musicians, and the culinary arts.
Coffee, salmon, berries, kale, fennel, lavender, rosemary, hops, beer, wheat, wine, oysters, clams and Dungeness crab. These are foods and
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12
Jun
On naming and marriage and owning yourself.
When Will and I were married, I did not take his last name. He was a little crestfallen when I
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12
Jun
White sugar. White backlash.
I think Ferguson could use a little Nina Simone right now. Less backlash, more sugar.
Simone was born Eunice Kathleen
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12
Jun
You're not a designer, either. On the Mantle of Bullshit and the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
The Dunning-Kruger Effect is a phenomenon in cognitive science asserting that incompetence prevents the incompetent from realizing their incompetence
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12
Jun
On death, salt, and Marcel waves.
There were many things to love about Pat, but one of my favorite things about her were her silver Marcel
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12
Jun
On tasting the New American Chocolate Movement.
Artisan chocolate is like a good bottle of wine. It is made by master chocolate makers who use the finest
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12
Jun
Plotting the history of food in Seattle.
Thanks to my friend Aly at NPR for recommending it and the Neiman Lab for creating it: Timeline JS. I’