I was in Starbucks the other day (I admit, I do go to Starbucks) and overheard the woman in line behind me saying she wanted an iced coffee, so I gave her my “treat receipt”.  I didn’t need mine.  Earlier that same day I noticed some large opened safety pins on the sidewalk which instantly set off my “mommy radar” with a vision of them being stepped on by small barefoot feet so I promptly, and carefully, picked them up and threw them in the trash.

Not to glorify myself, but both acts got me thinking about the tiny, not …

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A whole series of gigantic potholes being repaired on Woodlawn south of 41st?  No, must be Hamilton construction.  A man with tired eyes walks up the block with a fussy baby in a Snugli.  The man walks and walks, the baby cries and cries.

On 39th and Carr Ave. N. (a lovely “hidden” street) earsplitting shrieks – catfight!  A burly ginger tom blurs after a gray-and-white under a car and then back into some bushes, screaming the whole way.  The tom swaggers out, triumphant.

This fellow, mysterious and menacing, is on what looks like a garage door directly opposite the …

After a long trip to the Northern Canadian wilderness our family returned to Seattle hungry for ethnic urban eats.  What better place than the new Bamboo Village at the corner of Stone Way and N 49th St?

I include this sign facing Stone Way because it makes me smile.  It’s authentic.

View from the surprisingly spacious parking lot (although we walked – yes! walked to dim sum in Wallingford).

Inside, it’s also surprisingly light, bright and spacious with clean high ceilings and big tables.

“The cart” and the dim sum menu.  I’m not an expert but my husband and …