Mel Curtis

Been walking lately with coffee destinations in mind. Since my favorite spot is 2 miles away, I have been checking out the closer ones, given there are multiple choices. The closest ones are small and always full with folks glued to their devices. And I don’t do take out. I want to sit and enjoy my café latte in a…

New Year’s Eve was quiet here. Historically I always stay home so as to not deal with the crazies out on the streets. And parties ceased to entertain me long ago. For several years we would have a friend or two come to dinner and we would sit by the fire and visit. As years have worn on, we began…

The rains have let up a bit and my morning walk today was just cool and grey. Unseasonably warm actually. My daffodils are popping through the ground already. I walked a couple miles to neighborhood known as Tangletown. Unlike the old country, i.e. Europe, American urban neighborhoods are often laid out on a grid. Often long and boring streets. Though…

Organizing information or systems (like a website) requires effort and resource allocation to prevent decay into chaos (content entropy). My raison d'etre.

Despite the loss of sleep, I am managing. I made up for some of it by sleeping thru a football game yesterday afternoon and then going to bed early. The rains are putting a damper on my morning walks. I take short ones, but when my feet get soaked, I have to head home. I go to the grocery store…

Sounds like you had a nice Thanksgiving. I get the family thing. I didn’t own a home until my 40s and this house until I was 48 and had been living alone up to that time. So, at holiday time I was the single person always invited to dinners since I had nowhere to go. When I finally moved into…

I assume you are having the cool wet weather we are. I actually rather like it and enjoy walking in the misty mornings. I almost always see folks walking with their dogs and invariably I think of Barney. I am still grieving pretty hard and still tear up when I think about him for too long or talk to people…

I had a weird thought this morning on my home from the art museum. The autumn colors are fading and blowing away in the wind. And the rains return. October has always been my favorite month and one that goes by all too quickly. So, I was thinking about the passage of time, and it made me wonder how many…

Went for a long walk in the rain this morning. The atmospheric river came through last night and it was quite the storm. Big howling winds. But no damage as I could see.  I took my standard walk around the neighborhood. When he was young, Barney loved to walk with me. I just had to shake the leash, and he was…

I got a bit of a break from the blahs last week. I wanted to start writing for my new website folios and decided to start with the one about the University of Washington. But before I could write a word, I had to think about what my first project was there. I thought about it for minute and thought…