(161,2,'2014-02-12 10:13:15','2014-02-12 18:13:15','A couple of years ago when hummus showed up in my neighborhood Billa (I was living in Sofia, Bulgaria), I could not have been happier. The hummus was good (but not great) however its real selling point was the price--2.50 leva (that\'s about 1.25 Euro or what about $1.75).\r\n<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12483802394/\" title=\"Homemade hummus by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3776/12483802394_81d9e0d610_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\"  alt=\"Homemade hummus\"></a>\r\nSure I could have made my own hummus but I don\'t think it would have been much cheaper than the store bought stuff. I also wasn\'t that interested in buying my own food processor while living abroad so I settled for store bought.\r\n<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12483775854/\" title=\"Homemade hummus by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3796/12483775854_2b6078b49e_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"Homemade hummus\"></a>\r\nThe good news is, in September I found a food processor-blender combo at a yardsale. It was basically new and I paid next to nothing for it. Now I can make hummus whenever I want. Yipee!!\r\n<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12483904484/\" title=\"Cooking Chickpeas by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7449/12483904484_50d9190d7a_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\"  alt=\"Cooking Chickpeas\"></a>\r\nI started out this fall using canned chickpeas but in January, I figured that I should move on to dried chickpeas. Sure it takes a little more time but you get way more control over the texture of the hummus.\r\n<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12483876024/\" title=\"Cooking Chickpeas by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7453/12483876024_2304bc24b1_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"Cooking Chickpeas\"></a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12483410515/\" title=\"Cooking Chickpeas by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7371/12483410515_0d895cc1b8_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"Cooking Chickpeas\"></a>\r\nI <a title=\"How to cook chickpeas\" href=\"http://www.wikihow.com/Cook-Chickpeas\" target=\"_blank\">cook my chickpeas using these instructions</a> but I\'ve never used the baking soda. Then I freeze 2/3 of the cooked chickpeas on a cookie sheet and after they are frozen I put them in a ziplok bag for future use. The other third? That\'s what I make my hummus with.\r\n\r\nMy current favorite recipe is easy as can be: put 4 diced cloves of garlic, 1/4 cup olive oil, 2 tablespoons of tahini and a 1/4 of a cup of lemon juice into the food processor and blend until combined and relatively smooth. Add the chickpeas and a pinch of salt into the food processor and blend, blend, blend.\r\n<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12483338555/\" title=\"Homemade hummus in my food procesor by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3749/12483338555_ef37261624_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\"  alt=\"Homemade hummus in my food procesor\"></a>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12483786714/\" title=\"Homemade hummus by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7399/12483786714_4892f99b59_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"Homemade hummus\"></a>\r\nThat\'s it. Yeah, hummus.','Homemade: Garlic Hummus with a Touch of Lemon','','inherit','open','open','','159-revision-v1','','','2014-02-12 10:13:15','2014-02-12 18:13:15','',159,'http://carolynemigh.com/159-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(162,2,'2014-02-12 10:16:33','2014-02-12 18:16:33','A couple of years ago when hummus showed up in my neighborhood Billa (I was living in Sofia, Bulgaria), I could not have been happier. The hummus was good (but not great) however its real selling point was the price--2.50 leva (that\'s about 1.25 Euro or what about $1.75).\r\n<a title=\"Homemade hummus by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12483802394/\"><img alt=\"Homemade hummus\" src=\"http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3776/12483802394_81d9e0d610_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nSure I could have made my own hummus but I don\'t think it would have been much cheaper than the store bought stuff. I also wasn\'t that interested in buying my own food processor while living abroad so I settled for store bought.\r\n<a title=\"Homemade hummus by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12483775854/\"><img alt=\"Homemade hummus\" src=\"http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3796/12483775854_2b6078b49e_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nThe good news is, in September I found a food processor-blender combo at a yardsale. It was basically new and I paid next to nothing for it. Now I can make hummus whenever I want. Yipee!!<!--more-->\r\n<a title=\"Cooking Chickpeas by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12483904484/\"><img alt=\"Cooking Chickpeas\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7449/12483904484_50d9190d7a_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nI started out this fall using canned chickpeas but in January, I figured that I should move on to dried chickpeas. Sure it takes a little more time but you get way more control over the texture of the hummus.\r\n<a title=\"Cooking Chickpeas by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12483876024/\"><img alt=\"Cooking Chickpeas\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7453/12483876024_2304bc24b1_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\n<a title=\"Cooking Chickpeas by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12483410515/\"><img alt=\"Cooking Chickpeas\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7371/12483410515_0d895cc1b8_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" /></a>\r\nI <a title=\"How to cook chickpeas\" href=\"http://www.wikihow.com/Cook-Chickpeas\" target=\"_blank\">cook my chickpeas using these instructions</a> but I\'ve never used the baking soda. Then I freeze 2/3 of the cooked chickpeas on a cookie sheet and after they are frozen I put them in a ziplok bag for future use. The other third? That\'s what I make my hummus with.\r\n\r\nMy current favorite recipe is easy as can be: put 4 diced cloves of garlic, 1/4 cup olive oil, 2 tablespoons of tahini and a 1/4 of a cup of lemon juice into the food processor and blend until combined and relatively smooth. Add the chickpeas and a pinch of salt into the food processor and blend, blend, blend.\r\n<a title=\"Homemade hummus in my food procesor by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12483338555/\"><img alt=\"Homemade hummus in my food procesor\" src=\"http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3749/12483338555_ef37261624_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\n<a title=\"Homemade hummus by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12483786714/\"><img alt=\"Homemade hummus\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7399/12483786714_4892f99b59_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nThat\'s it.\r\n\r\nYeah, hummus!','Homemade: Garlic Hummus with a Touch of Lemon','','inherit','open','open','','159-revision-v1','','','2014-02-12 10:16:33','2014-02-12 18:16:33','',159,'http://carolynemigh.com/159-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(164,2,'2014-02-12 23:24:50','2014-02-13 07:24:50','I\'ve got a one-bedroom apartment in the lovely Seattle neighborhood of Ballard.\r\n\r\nAs far as hunting for apartments goes, I got lucky. Very lucky. Thanks Craig\'s List.\r\n\r\ndon\'t know where the name Ballard came from but for a while every time someone said Ballard, I thought of ducks. It wasn\'t until later that I realized I was confusing/mixing-up/interweaving Ballard and Mallard. Ha.','My little corner of Ballard in Seattle ','','inherit','open','open','','101-revision-v1','','','2014-02-12 23:24:50','2014-02-13 07:24:50','',101,'http://carolynemigh.com/101-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(165,2,'2014-02-13 16:08:12','2014-02-14 00:08:12','I\'ve got a one-bedroom apartment in the lovely Seattle neighborhood of Ballard. As far as hunting for apartments goes, I got lucky. Very lucky. Thanks Craig\'s List. I looked at a couple of places before finding mine. Mine? It was basically love at first sight and it didn\'t hurt that I\'ve also got a covered parking spot and a washer/dryer in my unit.\r\n\r\ndon\'t know where the name Ballard came from but for a while every time someone said Ballard, I thought of ducks. It wasn\'t until later that I realized I was confusing/mixing-up/interweaving Ballard and Mallard. Ha.','My little corner of Ballard in Seattle ','','inherit','open','open','','101-revision-v1','','','2014-02-13 16:08:12','2014-02-14 00:08:12','',101,'http://carolynemigh.com/101-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(166,2,'2014-02-13 17:29:53','2014-02-14 01:29:53','The current fad is to go gluten free. Not me, I love gluten.\r\n\r\nBeer, bread, cookies? Yes, please.\r\n<a title=\"Loaf of bread by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12510610833/\"><img alt=\"Loaf of bread\" src=\"https://ycpi-farm8.staticflickr.com/7309/12510610833_016dd2ab23_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nMy dAd bought me a bread maker at a yardsale this summer. Well, he bought one and my MoM wanted it so he gave her the first one and then he found a second one for me. Apparently, everyone is selling bread machines at yardsales. My dAd swears he sees them everywhere.\r\n<a title=\"Slice of bread by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12510540123/\"><img alt=\"Slice of bread\" src=\"http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3676/12510540123_d01114eee4_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nHere\'s the thing, I didn\'t know that I wanted a bread machine until I had one.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nMy bread machine is stupidly easy to use. It didn\'t come with instructions because it\'s second-hand (but I prefer to think of it as new-to-me!) and still I\'ve never had a problem with it. I found a basic recipe on the internet and I\'ve made a loaf of bread weekly since then.\r\n<a title=\"Loaf of bread by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12510946674/\"><img alt=\"Loaf of bread\" src=\"https://ycpi-farm4.staticflickr.com/3777/12510946674_ba1db06d14_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nIt\'s easy I tell you. So easy. And it tastes so much better than store bought bread.\r\n\r\nI started with<a title=\"Recipe for bread \" href=\"http://allrecipes.com/recipe/best-bread-machine-bread/\" target=\"_blank\"> this recipe </a>and made it my own. The thing that I love is that you mix the water and yeast together first which is pretty nonstandard in bread machine recipes but it works great for a quick-bake loaf.\r\n<a title=\"Loaf of bread by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12510929764/\"><img alt=\"Loaf of bread\" src=\"https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3823/12510929764_ac9283ffde_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nHere\'s my take on the recipe:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>1 cup of warm water</li>\r\n	<li>2 1/4 teaspoons yeast</li>\r\n	<li>2 tablespoons white sugar (but I\'ve also done 1 tablespoon white and 1 tablespoon brown sugar and I liked this too)</li>\r\n	<li>1/4 cup vegetable oil</li>\r\n	<li>3 cups flour (2 cups white and 1 cup wheat)</li>\r\n	<li>1 1/4 teaspoon salt</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nI put the water and yeast together in the bread machine pan and let them sit for a couple of minutes before adding the sugar and letting the whole thing stand for 5-10 minutes. Then I add the remaining ingredients in the order listed above.  I run the bread machine on one of the quick-bake cycles. Mine is a 80 minute cycle.\r\n<a title=\"Loaf of bread sliced by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12510903934/\"><img alt=\"Loaf of bread sliced\" src=\"http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3746/12510903934_9f22da1ccc_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nThe thing that I can\'t get over is that the prep-work takes less than 15 minutes and the homemade loaf of bread costs way less than $2. This begs the question: why would I ever buy a $4+ loaf at the store?','Homemade: Whole-wheat bread machine recipe','','publish','open','open','','homemade-whole-wheat-bread-machine-recipe','','','2014-02-13 17:29:53','2014-02-14 01:29:53','',0,'http://carolynemigh.com/?p=166',0,'post','',1),(167,2,'2014-02-13 16:52:51','2014-02-14 00:52:51','The current fad is to go gluten free. Not me, I love gluten. Beer, bread, cookies? Yes, please.\r\n<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12510610833/\" title=\"Loaf of bread by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\"><img src=\"https://ycpi-farm8.staticflickr.com/7309/12510610833_016dd2ab23_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\"  alt=\"Loaf of bread\"></a>\r\nMy dAd bought me a bread maker at a yardsale this summer. Well, he bought one and my MoM wanted it so he gave her the first one and then he found a second one for me. Apparently, everyone is selling bread machines at yardsales. My dAd swears he sees them everywhere.\r\n<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12510540123/\" title=\"Slice of bread by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3676/12510540123_d01114eee4_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"Slice of bread\"></a>\r\nHere\'s the thing, I didn\'t know that I wanted a bread machine until I had one.\r\n\r\nMy bread machine is stupidly easy to use. It didn\'t come with instructions because it\'s second-hand (but I prefer to think of it as new-to-me!) and still I\'ve never had a problem with it. I found a basic recipe on the internet and I\'ve made a loaf of bread weekly since then.\r\n<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12510946674/\" title=\"Loaf of bread by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\"><img src=\"https://ycpi-farm4.staticflickr.com/3777/12510946674_ba1db06d14_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"Loaf of bread\"></a>\r\nIt\'s easy I tell you. So easy. And it tastes so good.\r\n\r\nI started with<a title=\"Recipe for bread \" href=\"http://allrecipes.com/recipe/best-bread-machine-bread/\" target=\"_blank\"> this recipe </a>and made it my own. The thing that I love is that you mix the water and yeast together first which is pretty nonstandard in bread machine recipes but it works great for a quick-bake loaf.\r\n<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12510929764/\" title=\"Loaf of bread by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\"><img src=\"https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3823/12510929764_ac9283ffde_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\"  alt=\"Loaf of bread\"></a>\r\nHere\'s my take on the recipe:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>1 cup of warm water</li>\r\n	<li>2 1/4 teaspoons yeast</li>\r\n	<li>2 tablespoons white sugar (but I\'ve also done 1 tablespoon white and 1 tablespoon brown sugar and I liked this too)</li>\r\n	<li>1/4 cup vegetable oil</li>\r\n	<li>3 cups flour (2 cups white and 1 cup wheat)</li>\r\n	<li>1 1/4 teaspoon salt</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nI put the water and yeast together in the bread machine pan and let them sit for a couple of minutes before adding the sugar and letting the whole thing stand for 5-10 minutes. Then I add the remaining ingredients in the order listed above.  I run the bread machine on one of the quick-bake cycles. Mine is a 80 minute cycle.\r\n<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12510903934/\" title=\"Loaf of bread sliced by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3746/12510903934_9f22da1ccc_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"Loaf of bread sliced\"></a>\r\nThe thing that I can\'t get over is that the prep-work takes less than 15 minutes and the homemade loaf of bread costs way less than $2. This begs the question: why would I ever buy a $4+ loaf at the store?','Homemade: Whole-wheat bread machine recipe','','inherit','open','open','','166-revision-v1','','','2014-02-13 16:52:51','2014-02-14 00:52:51','',166,'http://carolynemigh.com/166-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(168,2,'2014-02-13 17:27:59','2014-02-14 01:27:59','The current fad is to go gluten free. Not me, I love gluten.\r\n\r\nBeer, bread, cookies? Yes, please.\r\n<a title=\"Loaf of bread by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12510610833/\"><img alt=\"Loaf of bread\" src=\"https://ycpi-farm8.staticflickr.com/7309/12510610833_016dd2ab23_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nMy dAd bought me a bread maker at a yardsale this summer. Well, he bought one and my MoM wanted it so he gave her the first one and then he found a second one for me. Apparently, everyone is selling bread machines at yardsales. My dAd swears he sees them everywhere.\r\n<a title=\"Slice of bread by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12510540123/\"><img alt=\"Slice of bread\" src=\"http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3676/12510540123_d01114eee4_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nHere\'s the thing, I didn\'t know that I wanted a bread machine until I had one.\r\n\r\nMy bread machine is stupidly easy to use. It didn\'t come with instructions because it\'s second-hand (but I prefer to think of it as new-to-me!) and still I\'ve never had a problem with it. I found a basic recipe on the internet and I\'ve made a loaf of bread weekly since then.\r\n<a title=\"Loaf of bread by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12510946674/\"><img alt=\"Loaf of bread\" src=\"https://ycpi-farm4.staticflickr.com/3777/12510946674_ba1db06d14_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nIt\'s easy I tell you. So easy. And it tastes so good.\r\n\r\nI started with<a title=\"Recipe for bread \" href=\"http://allrecipes.com/recipe/best-bread-machine-bread/\" target=\"_blank\"> this recipe </a>and made it my own. The thing that I love is that you mix the water and yeast together first which is pretty nonstandard in bread machine recipes but it works great for a quick-bake loaf.\r\n<a title=\"Loaf of bread by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12510929764/\"><img alt=\"Loaf of bread\" src=\"https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3823/12510929764_ac9283ffde_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nHere\'s my take on the recipe:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>1 cup of warm water</li>\r\n	<li>2 1/4 teaspoons yeast</li>\r\n	<li>2 tablespoons white sugar (but I\'ve also done 1 tablespoon white and 1 tablespoon brown sugar and I liked this too)</li>\r\n	<li>1/4 cup vegetable oil</li>\r\n	<li>3 cups flour (2 cups white and 1 cup wheat)</li>\r\n	<li>1 1/4 teaspoon salt</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nI put the water and yeast together in the bread machine pan and let them sit for a couple of minutes before adding the sugar and letting the whole thing stand for 5-10 minutes. Then I add the remaining ingredients in the order listed above.  I run the bread machine on one of the quick-bake cycles. Mine is a 80 minute cycle.\r\n<a title=\"Loaf of bread sliced by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12510903934/\"><img alt=\"Loaf of bread sliced\" src=\"http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3746/12510903934_9f22da1ccc_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nThe thing that I can\'t get over is that the prep-work takes less than 15 minutes and the homemade loaf of bread costs way less than $2. This begs the question: why would I ever buy a $4+ loaf at the store?','Homemade: Whole-wheat bread machine recipe','','inherit','open','open','','166-revision-v1','','','2014-02-13 17:27:59','2014-02-14 01:27:59','',166,'http://carolynemigh.com/166-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(169,2,'2014-02-13 17:29:53','2014-02-14 01:29:53','The current fad is to go gluten free. Not me, I love gluten.\r\n\r\nBeer, bread, cookies? Yes, please.\r\n<a title=\"Loaf of bread by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12510610833/\"><img alt=\"Loaf of bread\" src=\"https://ycpi-farm8.staticflickr.com/7309/12510610833_016dd2ab23_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nMy dAd bought me a bread maker at a yardsale this summer. Well, he bought one and my MoM wanted it so he gave her the first one and then he found a second one for me. Apparently, everyone is selling bread machines at yardsales. My dAd swears he sees them everywhere.\r\n<a title=\"Slice of bread by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12510540123/\"><img alt=\"Slice of bread\" src=\"http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3676/12510540123_d01114eee4_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nHere\'s the thing, I didn\'t know that I wanted a bread machine until I had one.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nMy bread machine is stupidly easy to use. It didn\'t come with instructions because it\'s second-hand (but I prefer to think of it as new-to-me!) and still I\'ve never had a problem with it. I found a basic recipe on the internet and I\'ve made a loaf of bread weekly since then.\r\n<a title=\"Loaf of bread by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12510946674/\"><img alt=\"Loaf of bread\" src=\"https://ycpi-farm4.staticflickr.com/3777/12510946674_ba1db06d14_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nIt\'s easy I tell you. So easy. And it tastes so much better than store bought bread.\r\n\r\nI started with<a title=\"Recipe for bread \" href=\"http://allrecipes.com/recipe/best-bread-machine-bread/\" target=\"_blank\"> this recipe </a>and made it my own. The thing that I love is that you mix the water and yeast together first which is pretty nonstandard in bread machine recipes but it works great for a quick-bake loaf.\r\n<a title=\"Loaf of bread by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12510929764/\"><img alt=\"Loaf of bread\" src=\"https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3823/12510929764_ac9283ffde_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nHere\'s my take on the recipe:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>1 cup of warm water</li>\r\n	<li>2 1/4 teaspoons yeast</li>\r\n	<li>2 tablespoons white sugar (but I\'ve also done 1 tablespoon white and 1 tablespoon brown sugar and I liked this too)</li>\r\n	<li>1/4 cup vegetable oil</li>\r\n	<li>3 cups flour (2 cups white and 1 cup wheat)</li>\r\n	<li>1 1/4 teaspoon salt</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nI put the water and yeast together in the bread machine pan and let them sit for a couple of minutes before adding the sugar and letting the whole thing stand for 5-10 minutes. Then I add the remaining ingredients in the order listed above.  I run the bread machine on one of the quick-bake cycles. Mine is a 80 minute cycle.\r\n<a title=\"Loaf of bread sliced by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12510903934/\"><img alt=\"Loaf of bread sliced\" src=\"http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3746/12510903934_9f22da1ccc_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nThe thing that I can\'t get over is that the prep-work takes less than 15 minutes and the homemade loaf of bread costs way less than $2. This begs the question: why would I ever buy a $4+ loaf at the store?','Homemade: Whole-wheat bread machine recipe','','inherit','open','open','','166-revision-v1','','','2014-02-13 17:29:53','2014-02-14 01:29:53','',166,'http://carolynemigh.com/166-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(170,2,'2014-02-14 10:40:33','2014-02-14 18:40:33','A novel set in North Korea?\r\n\r\nI thought that I was going to love it because I have a soft spot in my heart for oppressive regimes, hunger and forced labor. <em>Just kidding</em>.\r\n<a title=\"The Orphan Master\'s Son by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12524827164/\"><img alt=\"The Orphan Master\'s Son\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7389/12524827164_1fb0faabf4_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nI thought I\'d like the book because it kept showing up on lists. Book lists. Lists of books I should read. Lists of good books. Lists of notable books.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI reserved the book in October and I\'ve been waiting for it since. I finally got it three weeks ago. it\'s a popular book.\r\n\r\nThe thing is, I didn\'t love this book and in fact, I struggled to finish it. I basically just made myself read the last 100 pages. I kept thinking it\'s going to get better. There\'s going to be some awesome twist. There\'s going to be something redeeming. Only, it never did get any better.\r\n\r\nHere\'s the deal, I really liked the first half of the book. The pacing is quick, the writing is tight and the plot is unexpected.  it\'s the second half of the book that killed me.\r\n\r\nI am sad to report that in the end I feel pretty <em>meh</em> about the book. Good thing I checked it out from the library instead of buying it.\r\n\r\nI guess that this is it the way it works sometimes. Not everyone likes the same books. I just thought this was a book that I was going to like a lot so I feel especially let down.','On my bookshelf: The Orphan Master\'s Son','','publish','open','open','','on-my-bookshelf-the-orphan-masters-son','','','2014-02-14 10:40:33','2014-02-14 18:40:33','',0,'http://carolynemigh.com/?p=170',0,'post','',0),(171,2,'2014-02-13 22:08:31','2014-02-14 06:08:31','A novel set in North Korea? I thought that I was going to love it because I have a soft spot in my heart for oppressive regimes, hunger and forced labor. <em>Just kidding</em>. I thought I\'d like the book because it kept showing up on lists. Book lists. Lists of books I should read. Lists of good books. List of notable books.\r\n\r\nI reserved the book in October and I\'ve been waiting for it since. I finally got it three weeks ago. it\'s a popular book.\r\n\r\nThe thing is, I didn\'t love this book and in fact, I struggled to finish it. I basically just made myself read the last 100 pages. I kept thinking it\'s going to get better, there\'s going to be some awesome twist, there\'s going to be something redeeming. Only, it never did get any better.\r\n\r\nHere\'s the deal, I really liked the first half of the book. The pacing is quick, the writing is tight and the plot is unexpected.  it\'s the second half of the book that killed me.\r\n\r\nI am sad to report that in the end I feel pretty <em>meh</em> about the book.','On my bookshelf: The Orphan Master\'s Son','','inherit','open','open','','170-revision-v1','','','2014-02-13 22:08:31','2014-02-14 06:08:31','',170,'http://carolynemigh.com/170-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(172,2,'2014-02-14 10:40:33','2014-02-14 18:40:33','A novel set in North Korea?\r\n\r\nI thought that I was going to love it because I have a soft spot in my heart for oppressive regimes, hunger and forced labor. <em>Just kidding</em>.\r\n<a title=\"The Orphan Master\'s Son by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12524827164/\"><img alt=\"The Orphan Master\'s Son\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7389/12524827164_1fb0faabf4_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nI thought I\'d like the book because it kept showing up on lists. Book lists. Lists of books I should read. Lists of good books. Lists of notable books.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI reserved the book in October and I\'ve been waiting for it since. I finally got it three weeks ago. it\'s a popular book.\r\n\r\nThe thing is, I didn\'t love this book and in fact, I struggled to finish it. I basically just made myself read the last 100 pages. I kept thinking it\'s going to get better. There\'s going to be some awesome twist. There\'s going to be something redeeming. Only, it never did get any better.\r\n\r\nHere\'s the deal, I really liked the first half of the book. The pacing is quick, the writing is tight and the plot is unexpected.  it\'s the second half of the book that killed me.\r\n\r\nI am sad to report that in the end I feel pretty <em>meh</em> about the book. Good thing I checked it out from the library instead of buying it.\r\n\r\nI guess that this is it the way it works sometimes. Not everyone likes the same books. I just thought this was a book that I was going to like a lot so I feel especially let down.','On my bookshelf: The Orphan Master\'s Son','','inherit','open','open','','170-revision-v1','','','2014-02-14 10:40:33','2014-02-14 18:40:33','',170,'http://carolynemigh.com/170-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(178,2,'2014-02-22 19:03:24','2014-02-23 03:03:24','Monday was Presidents\' Day so it was a short work week for many. How is it that the shortest weeks can also be so busy?!\r\n<a title=\"Split pea soup by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12524501343/\"><img alt=\"Split pea soup\" src=\"http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2825/12524501343_f2e2ab6447_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" /></a>\r\nMy week was a whirlwind of activity: new bus routes, tupperware lunches, library books and dinner in my (messy) kitchen.\r\n\r\nBut I made it through.\r\n\r\nSure, I didn\'t go to the gym and there were a few nights that I went to bed early and when my alarm clock rang in the morning I thought: hurmph. Luckily this wasn\'t anything that couldn\'t be cured with coffee.\r\n\r\nI made soup and ate it.<!--more-->\r\n<a title=\"Split pea soup by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12524373385/\"><img alt=\"Split pea soup\" src=\"https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7415/12524373385_0661255985_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" /></a>\r\nIt\'s split pea. It was so good and ridiculously easy. I just followed the recipe on the bag.\r\n\r\nTwo things. First, a full recipe was a <em>little</em> too much for my crock pot causing it to overflow slightly when the dried peas soaked up the liquid. Ops! Second, I really don\'t know how much kitchen got so messy. Aren\'t crockpots supposed lend themselves to one pot meals?!\r\n\r\nSplit pea soup isn\'t very sexy but it\'s darn good and that\'s good enough for me.','A busy week calls for a messy kitchen ','','publish','open','open','','a-busy-week-calls-for-a-messy-kitchen','','','2014-02-23 11:03:44','2014-02-23 19:03:44','',0,'http://carolynemigh.com/?p=178',0,'post','',0),(174,2,'2014-02-17 21:27:43','2014-02-18 05:27:43','On Friday, I got this in the mail:\r\n<a title=\"A Valentine! by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12605988465/\"><img alt=\"A Valentine!\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7363/12605988465_a486c76c61_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nIt\'s the one real hard-copy valentine that I got this year and it\'s so cute.\r\n\r\nMy Aunt J. is clearly the best! Nothing says I love and I am thinking about you quite like a homemade valentine.\r\n\r\nDid you notice how sweet this owl is? His nose and feet are made out of hearts. Hearts I tell you!','I got a Valentine in the mail! ','','publish','open','open','','i-got-a-valentine-in-the-mail','','','2014-02-17 21:27:43','2014-02-18 05:27:43','',0,'http://carolynemigh.com/?p=174',0,'post','',0),(175,2,'2014-02-17 21:27:43','2014-02-18 05:27:43','On Friday, I got this in the mail:\r\n<a title=\"A Valentine! by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12605988465/\"><img alt=\"A Valentine!\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7363/12605988465_a486c76c61_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nIt\'s the one real hard-copy valentine that I got this year and it\'s so cute.\r\n\r\nMy Aunt J. is clearly the best! Nothing says I love and I am thinking about you quite like a homemade valentine.\r\n\r\nDid you notice how sweet this owl is? His nose and feet are made out of hearts. Hearts I tell you!','I got a Valentine in the mail! ','','inherit','open','open','','174-revision-v1','','','2014-02-17 21:27:43','2014-02-18 05:27:43','',174,'http://carolynemigh.com/174-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(176,2,'2014-02-18 07:35:36','2014-02-18 15:35:36','This Pepperwood Grove Cabernet Sauvignon comes in a green bottle. So the lid is re-usable but it makes a little popping noise when you open it.  That\'s fun, if not a little gimmicky. Does this lid/bottle make it better than a traditional cork in some way? I don\'t know. the bottle didn\'t say.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Pepperwoodgrove wine by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12606271495/\"><img alt=\"Pepperwoodgrove wine\" src=\"http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3821/12606271495_d95af10a29_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nThe Pepperwood Grove wine was very drinkable. My sister picked up the bottle at Safeway, I think. We liked it but didn\'t love it.\r\n\r\nThe wine didn\'t have a lot of depth nor was it full-bodied. What did it have going for it? It was smooth and non-offensive.\r\n\r\nI would drink it again but I wouldn\'t actively seek it out.','We drank this: Pepperwood Grove wine','','publish','open','open','','we-drank-this-pepperwood-grove-wine','','','2014-02-17 21:56:58','2014-02-18 05:56:58','',0,'http://carolynemigh.com/?p=176',0,'post','',2),(177,2,'2014-02-17 21:56:58','2014-02-18 05:56:58','This Pepperwood Grove Cabernet Sauvignon comes in a green bottle. So the lid is re-usable but it makes a little popping noise when you open it.  That\'s fun, if not a little gimmicky. Does this lid/bottle make it better than a traditional cork in some way? I don\'t know. the bottle didn\'t say.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Pepperwoodgrove wine by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12606271495/\"><img alt=\"Pepperwoodgrove wine\" src=\"http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3821/12606271495_d95af10a29_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nThe Pepperwood Grove wine was very drinkable. My sister picked up the bottle at Safeway, I think. We liked it but didn\'t love it.\r\n\r\nThe wine didn\'t have a lot of depth nor was it full-bodied. What did it have going for it? It was smooth and non-offensive.\r\n\r\nI would drink it again but I wouldn\'t actively seek it out.','We drank this: Pepperwood Grove wine','','inherit','open','open','','176-revision-v1','','','2014-02-17 21:56:58','2014-02-18 05:56:58','',176,'http://carolynemigh.com/176-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(179,2,'2014-02-23 11:03:23','2014-02-23 19:03:23','Monday was Presidents\' Day so it was a short work week for many. How is it that the shortest weeks can also be so busy?!\r\n<a title=\"Split pea soup by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12524501343/\"><img alt=\"Split pea soup\" src=\"http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2825/12524501343_f2e2ab6447_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" /></a>\r\nMy week was a whirlwind of activity: new bus routes, tupperware lunches, library books and dinner in my (messy) kitchen.\r\n\r\nBut I made it through.\r\n\r\nSure, I didn\'t go to the gym and there were a few nights that I went to bed early and when my alarm clock rang in the morning I thought: hurmph. Luckily this wasn\'t anything that couldn\'t be cured with coffee.\r\n\r\nI made soup and ate it.<!--more-->\r\n<a title=\"Split pea soup by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12524373385/\"><img alt=\"Split pea soup\" src=\"https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7415/12524373385_0661255985_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" /></a>\r\nIt\'s split pea. It was so good and ridiculously easy. I just followed the recipe on the bag.\r\n\r\nTwo things. First, a full recipe was a <em>little</em> too much for my crock pot causing it to overflow slightly when the dried peas soaked up the liquid. Ops! Second, I really don\'t know how much kitchen got so messy. Aren\'t crockpots supposed lend themselves to one pot meals?!\r\n\r\nSplit pea soup isn\'t very sexy but it\'s darn good and that\'s good enough for me.','A busy week calls for a messy kitchen ','','inherit','open','open','','178-revision-v1','','','2014-02-23 11:03:23','2014-02-23 19:03:23','',178,'http://carolynemigh.com/178-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(184,2,'2014-03-02 22:16:21','2014-03-03 06:16:21','In Bulgaria, the First of March is a holiday of sorts. Leading up to the First of March, red and yellow martenitsi are for sale all over the country. These little martenitsi are exchanged with friends and colleagues on March 1st.\r\n\r\nYou wear the martenitsi until you see either a stork or the first bloom of spring on a tree. Then you hang your martenitisi in a tree or tuck it under a rock.\r\n<a title=\"March 2014 Martenitsi by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12898097355/\"><img alt=\"March 2014 Martenitsi\" src=\"https://v4s2.yimg.com/sk/3692/12898097355_065f1eed31_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nIt\'s a holiday that makes me miss living in Bulgaria, a lot.\r\n\r\nThere is so much joy in trading, sharing, giving and receiving martenitsi.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nMarch is a changeable month. Sometimes spring comes slowly little by little. Sometimes it snows. Sometimes spring roars in. But, spring will come.\r\n\r\nI gave martenitsi to my friends on Friday, February 28th. I put martenitsi on my coats on March 1st and today, I gave a few more away to friends.\r\n<a title=\"Spring Flowers in Ballard by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12898112015/\"><img alt=\"Spring Flowers in Ballard\" src=\"https://v4s2.yimg.com/sk/3685/12898112015_429e48a7e1_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nI think that spring is going to find me much sooner than later in Seattle. There was plenty of rain today and there are flowers already poking their heads out of the soil. I don\'t know that I am going to see any storks in Seattle but I bet a spot a blooming tree in the next two weeks!\r\n\r\nI hope that wherever you are, spring finds you soon too!!','Happy First of March//Честита Баба Марта//Chestita Baba Marta!!','','publish','open','open','','happy-first-of-march%d1%87%d0%b5%d1%81%d1%82%d0%b8%d1%82%d0%b0-%d0%b1%d0%b0%d0%b1%d0%b0-%d0%bc%d0%b0%d1%80%d1%82%d0%b0chestita-baba-marta','','','2014-03-02 22:16:21','2014-03-03 06:16:21','',0,'http://carolynemigh.com/?p=184',0,'post','',2),(181,2,'2014-02-23 21:24:37','2014-02-24 05:24:37','I\'ve been building a live for myself slowly in Seattle after spending two-plus months gallivanting around Europe in July, August and September.\r\n\r\nSchool in Bulgaria finished up in June. I spent nearly four weeks traveling with my dAd and my sister in Bulgaria and to Istanbul. The day they left, I caught a flight to Poland and met up with my friend R. Together we hit up Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, St Petersburg and Helsinki. She flew back to the States and I went to Berlin for a week. I spent a few days in Sofia before flying with a cat to Barcelona. Barcelona was a dream and my week there flew by. I returned to Sofia for a whirlwind of goodbyes, hugs, tears and my suitcases. On my way to Seattle, I spent a week in Washington DC and five days in New York City. From DC I headed home to Walla Walla before finally making it to Seattle. Phew. That was a lot travel.\r\n\r\nSince then I\'ve been busy making a life for myself in Seattle. I am stealing my sister\'s friends. I\'ve found a great apartment. I\'ve been applying for jobs and working in a part-time job. I\'ve been getting to know my neighbors and I\'ve been watching football. Let\'s be clear, I mean, American football.\r\n\r\nHere\'s what I have to say: so far, so good. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nHaving never lived in Seattle and having grown up on the other side of the state, Seattle feels fresh and it still holds plenty of surprises. I like that.\r\n\r\nOne of the things that I worried about was the weather. (I know, I know.) This said, I\'ve been pleasantly surprised. Sure, there\'s been rain and plenty of grey skies but there hasn\'t been much actual winter to speak of.\r\n\r\nI\'ve spent most of December, January and February in ballerina flats. I\'ve worn my boots occasionally but much more out of vanity than out of any real need. I just thought boots would complete my outfit. Thus far we\'ve had one night where it snowed but it wasn\'t anything serious and melted by lunch the next day. If this is \"winter\" in Seattle, I\'ll take it.\r\n\r\nSure, I miss Sofia and recently I found myself day-dreaming about cheap Bulgarian beer and french fries with sirene cheese but these things are bound to happen. I <em>did</em> live in Sofia for five years.','Settling into Seattle ','','publish','open','open','','settling-into-seattle','','','2014-02-23 21:24:37','2014-02-24 05:24:37','',0,'http://carolynemigh.com/?p=181',0,'post','',3),(182,2,'2014-02-23 21:24:37','2014-02-24 05:24:37','I\'ve been building a live for myself slowly in Seattle after spending two-plus months gallivanting around Europe in July, August and September.\r\n\r\nSchool in Bulgaria finished up in June. I spent nearly four weeks traveling with my dAd and my sister in Bulgaria and to Istanbul. The day they left, I caught a flight to Poland and met up with my friend R. Together we hit up Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, St Petersburg and Helsinki. She flew back to the States and I went to Berlin for a week. I spent a few days in Sofia before flying with a cat to Barcelona. Barcelona was a dream and my week there flew by. I returned to Sofia for a whirlwind of goodbyes, hugs, tears and my suitcases. On my way to Seattle, I spent a week in Washington DC and five days in New York City. From DC I headed home to Walla Walla before finally making it to Seattle. Phew. That was a lot travel.\r\n\r\nSince then I\'ve been busy making a life for myself in Seattle. I am stealing my sister\'s friends. I\'ve found a great apartment. I\'ve been applying for jobs and working in a part-time job. I\'ve been getting to know my neighbors and I\'ve been watching football. Let\'s be clear, I mean, American football.\r\n\r\nHere\'s what I have to say: so far, so good. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nHaving never lived in Seattle and having grown up on the other side of the state, Seattle feels fresh and it still holds plenty of surprises. I like that.\r\n\r\nOne of the things that I worried about was the weather. (I know, I know.) This said, I\'ve been pleasantly surprised. Sure, there\'s been rain and plenty of grey skies but there hasn\'t been much actual winter to speak of.\r\n\r\nI\'ve spent most of December, January and February in ballerina flats. I\'ve worn my boots occasionally but much more out of vanity than out of any real need. I just thought boots would complete my outfit. Thus far we\'ve had one night where it snowed but it wasn\'t anything serious and melted by lunch the next day. If this is \"winter\" in Seattle, I\'ll take it.\r\n\r\nSure, I miss Sofia and recently I found myself day-dreaming about cheap Bulgarian beer and french fries with sirene cheese but these things are bound to happen. I <em>did</em> live in Sofia for five years.','Settling into Seattle ','','inherit','open','open','','181-revision-v1','','','2014-02-23 21:24:37','2014-02-24 05:24:37','',181,'http://carolynemigh.com/181-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(191,2,'2014-03-05 07:12:45','2014-03-05 15:12:45','It\'s taken me ages to get the wordpress app up and running on my phone. An embarrassingly long time in fact. I downloaded it sometime in 2013 and then thought about setting it up. \n\nHeck, I even tried to set it up a few times but I couldn\'t make it work. It turns out that in order to make it work you have to know <em>and</em> be typing in the right password. Go figure. \n\nThis week I realized that I\'d been typing in my funny-clever password in, incorrectly. Ops!\n\nDoes that make my smart phone smarter than me?! Probably. \n\n(Insert whatever <em>1984</em> style worries that you have about these kind of things here.)\n\nAnyhow, now I\'m up and running. Will this app change my life? I hope not. Will it make it easier to write posts from the bus on my way to work? Oh, yes.','Me & my smart phone','','publish','open','open','','me-my-smart-phone','','','2014-03-05 07:12:45','2014-03-05 15:12:45','',0,'http://carolynemigh.com/?p=191',0,'post','',0),(185,2,'2014-03-02 22:15:38','2014-03-03 06:15:38','In Bulgaria, the First of March is a holiday of sorts. Leading up to the First of March, red and yellow martenitsi are for sale all over the country. These little martenitsi are exchanged with friends and colleagues on March 1st.\r\n\r\nYou wear the martenitsi until you see either a stork or the first bloom of spring on a tree. Then you hang your martenitisi in a tree or tuck it under a rock.\r\n<a title=\"March 2014 Martenitsi by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12898097355/\"><img alt=\"March 2014 Martenitsi\" src=\"https://v4s2.yimg.com/sk/3692/12898097355_065f1eed31_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nIt\'s a holiday that makes me miss living in Bulgaria, a lot.\r\n\r\nThere is so much joy in trading, sharing, giving and receiving martenitsi.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nMarch is a changeable month. Sometimes spring comes slowly little by little. Sometimes it snows. Sometimes spring roars in. But, spring will come.\r\n\r\nI gave martenitsi to my friends on Friday, February 28th. I put martenitsi on my coats on March 1st and today, I gave a few more away to friends.\r\n<a title=\"Spring Flowers in Ballard by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12898112015/\"><img alt=\"Spring Flowers in Ballard\" src=\"https://v4s2.yimg.com/sk/3685/12898112015_429e48a7e1_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nI think that spring is going to find me much sooner than later in Seattle. There was plenty of rain today and there are flowers already poking their heads out of the soil. I don\'t know that I am going to see any storks in Seattle but I bet a spot a blooming tree in the next two weeks!\r\n\r\nI hope that wherever you are, spring finds you soon too!!','Happy First of March//Честита Баба Марта//Chestita Baba Marta!!','','inherit','open','open','','184-revision-v1','','','2014-03-02 22:15:38','2014-03-03 06:15:38','',184,'http://carolynemigh.com/184-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(187,2,'2014-03-03 21:26:47','2014-03-04 05:26:47','In Bulgaria, the First of March is a holiday of sorts. Leading up to the First of March, red and <del>yellow</del> white martenitsi are for sale all over the country. These little martenitsi are exchanged with friends and colleagues on March 1st. You wear the martenitsi until you see either a stork or the first bloom of spring on a tree. Then you hang your martenitisi in a tree or tuck it under a rock. <a title=\"March 2014 Martenitsi by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12898097355/\"><img alt=\"March 2014 Martenitsi\" src=\"https://v4s2.yimg.com/sk/3692/12898097355_065f1eed31_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a> It\'s a holiday that makes me miss living in Bulgaria, a lot. There is so much joy in trading, sharing, giving and receiving martenitsi.<!--more--> March is a changeable month. Sometimes spring comes slowly little by little. Sometimes it snows. Sometimes spring roars in. But, spring will come. I gave martenitsi to my friends on Friday, February 28th. I put martenitsi on my coats on March 1st and today, I gave a few more away to friends. <a title=\"Spring Flowers in Ballard by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12898112015/\"><img alt=\"Spring Flowers in Ballard\" src=\"https://v4s2.yimg.com/sk/3685/12898112015_429e48a7e1_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a> I think that spring is going to find me much sooner than later in Seattle. There was plenty of rain today and there are flowers already poking their heads out of the soil. I don\'t know that I am going to see any storks in Seattle but I bet a spot a blooming tree in the next two weeks! I hope that wherever you are, spring finds you soon too!!','Happy First of March//Честита Баба Марта//Chestita Baba Marta!!','','inherit','open','open','','184-autosave-v1','','','2014-03-03 21:26:47','2014-03-04 05:26:47','',184,'http://carolynemigh.com/184-autosave-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(188,2,'2014-03-03 14:22:24','2014-03-03 22:22:24','When I can, I try to take public transportation. I believe in busses, trams, trollies, and depending on where you’re from or what kind of English you speak the metro/subway/tube.\r\n\r\nPart of it is habit. I haven’t driven a car regularly since high school. For anyone counting, that’s four years of college, five years in Washington DC and five years in Bulgaria. I was able to do this because these cities both have decent public transportation by which I mean, buses and the metro came arrived at regular intervals and the systems had good hours of coverage. Neither was a great system (the DC system was expensive and the Sofia system made do with ancient vehicles) but both were good enough.\r\n\r\nAdditionally, I was lucky to be able to live in areas of town that were walkable which made things like grocery shopping much easier. I also don’t feel badly about grabbing a taxi when I need to, given my commitment to public transportation.\r\n\r\nSo when I moved to Seattle, I wondered if I even needed a car.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nClearly, the answer is: no I don’t need a car but I do have one.\r\n\r\nI have one because I was lucky enough to get a good used car through family friends. I have one because the Seattle metro area is actually pretty spread out and the public transportation isn’t as good as other cities I’ve lived in. I have a car because it’s easy and frankly, I have a car because I can.\r\n\r\nStill I take the bus more often than I drive places and I fill my gas tank up maybe once a month. This has given me plenty of opportunities to use Seattle public transportation and I like it just fine.\r\n\r\nWhat I think is so funny about Seattle are the other passengers and the impact of the physical geography of Seattle on the experience.\r\n\r\nThere’s a crowded bus that I’ve been taking in the mornings. The bus fills up and standing passengers always grumble about moving back in the bus. The thing is, I don’t understand why passengers stop halfway back in the bus to start with. Why not move all the way back in the first place?\r\n\r\nI also can’t get over passengers complaining about how crowded the busses are. Seattle busses just don’t seem crowded to me. If there are 8 or 9 people in the isle of the bus, this usually results in a fair amount of audible muttering over why the bus has gotten so crowded.\r\n\r\nMe, I think: this isn’t crowded. I am reminded of buses I’ve taken in Sofia where to get on the bus you must physically push your way on and even if you can reach a bar to hold on to it’s okay because you are propped up shoulder to shoulder by fellow passengers. I have yet to experience this in Seattle and I suspect that I never will. I guess my bar for what is crowded or not is just different.\r\n\r\nWhat I have experienced a few times recently are buses which after picking up passengers are unable to get in gear and make it up the hill they are climbing. When this happens the bus driver gets on the intercom and rather dejectedly announces: I am unable to move forward right now. If there are passengers who can get off at this stop, please do. Sometimes, this first announcement works. Sometimes it doesn’t and the bus driver must plead with passengers to debark.\r\n\r\nUntil this happened the first time a couple of weeks ago, I had no idea that this was an actual thing that could happen. After the first announcement, I thought: Of course, this is Seattle. Up until this moment, sitting on the bus on this hill, I’d assumed that the bus was broken. Ha!','Getting Around Seattle by Bus and by Car','','publish','open','open','','getting-around-seattle-by-bus-and-by-car','','','2014-03-03 14:22:24','2014-03-03 22:22:24','',0,'http://carolynemigh.com/?p=188',0,'post','',2),(189,2,'2014-03-03 14:22:24','2014-03-03 22:22:24','When I can, I try to take public transportation. I believe in busses, trams, trollies, and depending on where you’re from or what kind of English you speak the metro/subway/tube.\r\n\r\nPart of it is habit. I haven’t driven a car regularly since high school. For anyone counting, that’s four years of college, five years in Washington DC and five years in Bulgaria. I was able to do this because these cities both have decent public transportation by which I mean, buses and the metro came arrived at regular intervals and the systems had good hours of coverage. Neither was a great system (the DC system was expensive and the Sofia system made do with ancient vehicles) but both were good enough.\r\n\r\nAdditionally, I was lucky to be able to live in areas of town that were walkable which made things like grocery shopping much easier. I also don’t feel badly about grabbing a taxi when I need to, given my commitment to public transportation.\r\n\r\nSo when I moved to Seattle, I wondered if I even needed a car.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nClearly, the answer is: no I don’t need a car but I do have one.\r\n\r\nI have one because I was lucky enough to get a good used car through family friends. I have one because the Seattle metro area is actually pretty spread out and the public transportation isn’t as good as other cities I’ve lived in. I have a car because it’s easy and frankly, I have a car because I can.\r\n\r\nStill I take the bus more often than I drive places and I fill my gas tank up maybe once a month. This has given me plenty of opportunities to use Seattle public transportation and I like it just fine.\r\n\r\nWhat I think is so funny about Seattle are the other passengers and the impact of the physical geography of Seattle on the experience.\r\n\r\nThere’s a crowded bus that I’ve been taking in the mornings. The bus fills up and standing passengers always grumble about moving back in the bus. The thing is, I don’t understand why passengers stop halfway back in the bus to start with. Why not move all the way back in the first place?\r\n\r\nI also can’t get over passengers complaining about how crowded the busses are. Seattle busses just don’t seem crowded to me. If there are 8 or 9 people in the isle of the bus, this usually results in a fair amount of audible muttering over why the bus has gotten so crowded.\r\n\r\nMe, I think: this isn’t crowded. I am reminded of buses I’ve taken in Sofia where to get on the bus you must physically push your way on and even if you can reach a bar to hold on to it’s okay because you are propped up shoulder to shoulder by fellow passengers. I have yet to experience this in Seattle and I suspect that I never will. I guess my bar for what is crowded or not is just different.\r\n\r\nWhat I have experienced a few times recently are buses which after picking up passengers are unable to get in gear and make it up the hill they are climbing. When this happens the bus driver gets on the intercom and rather dejectedly announces: I am unable to move forward right now. If there are passengers who can get off at this stop, please do. Sometimes, this first announcement works. Sometimes it doesn’t and the bus driver must plead with passengers to debark.\r\n\r\nUntil this happened the first time a couple of weeks ago, I had no idea that this was an actual thing that could happen. After the first announcement, I thought: Of course, this is Seattle. Up until this moment, sitting on the bus on this hill, I’d assumed that the bus was broken. Ha!','Getting Around Seattle by Bus and by Car','','inherit','open','open','','188-revision-v1','','','2014-03-03 14:22:24','2014-03-03 22:22:24','',188,'http://carolynemigh.com/188-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(190,2,'2014-03-03 14:23:36','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','The Orchardist ','','draft','open','open','','','','','2014-03-03 14:23:36','2014-03-03 22:23:36','',0,'http://carolynemigh.com/?p=190',0,'post','',0),(192,2,'2014-03-05 07:12:45','2014-03-05 15:12:45','It\'s taken me ages to get the wordpress app up and running on my phone. An embarrassingly long time in fact. I downloaded it sometime in 2013 and then thought about setting it up. \n\nHeck, I even tried to set it up a few times but I couldn\'t make it work. It turns out that in order to make it work you have to know <em>and</em> be typing in the right password. Go figure. \n\nThis week I realized that I\'d been typing in my funny-clever password in, incorrectly. Ops!\n\nDoes that make my smart phone smarter than me?! Probably. \n\n(Insert whatever <em>1984</em> style worries that you have about these kind of things here.)\n\nAnyhow, now I\'m up and running. Will this app change my life? I hope not. Will it make it easier to write posts from the bus on my way to work? Oh, yes.','Me & my smart phone','','inherit','open','open','','191-revision-v1','','','2014-03-05 07:12:45','2014-03-05 15:12:45','',191,'http://carolynemigh.com/191-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(193,2,'2014-03-06 21:11:12','2014-03-07 05:11:12','<ol>\r\n	<li>In public, I can\'t help but to call a bathroom a toilet. I\'m not going to be taking a bath in any of these toilets.</li>\r\n	<li>I don\'t want ice in my water anymore.</li>\r\n	<li>When people talk about football, I don\'t know which sport people are talking about.</li>\r\n	<li>A 12 oz coffee seems too big. I\'d like an espresso or a 8 oz cappuccino.</li>\r\n	<li>I\'m appalled by how few weeks American women are given for maternity leave. Yes, I wrote weeks and that was not a mistake.</li>\r\n	<li>I never know how much to tip (but I <em>do</em> tip, so there\'s that).</li>\r\n	<li>I want to take a holiday. Not a vacation.</li>\r\n	<li>When it comes to paying, I worry that I wont have enough cash. This of course is silly because in the States you can basically pay for anything with your debit/credit/bank card.</li>\r\n	<li>I walk to the grocery store, even though I have a car and I could drive.</li>\r\n	<li>I think that everyone is under-dressed and I can\'t get over how many adults are wearing backpacks in public in Seattle.</li>\r\n</ol>','10 Reasons I Might now be a European at Heart','','publish','open','open','','10-reasons-i-might-now-be-a-european-at-heart','','','2014-03-06 21:11:12','2014-03-07 05:11:12','',0,'http://carolynemigh.com/?p=193',0,'post','',4),(194,2,'2014-03-06 21:11:12','2014-03-07 05:11:12','<ol>\r\n	<li>In public, I can\'t help but to call a bathroom a toilet. I\'m not going to be taking a bath in any of these toilets.</li>\r\n	<li>I don\'t want ice in my water anymore.</li>\r\n	<li>When people talk about football, I don\'t know which sport people are talking about.</li>\r\n	<li>A 12 oz coffee seems too big. I\'d like an espresso or a 8 oz cappuccino.</li>\r\n	<li>I\'m appalled by how few weeks American women are given for maternity leave. Yes, I wrote weeks and that was not a mistake.</li>\r\n	<li>I never know how much to tip (but I <em>do</em> tip, so there\'s that).</li>\r\n	<li>I want to take a holiday. Not a vacation.</li>\r\n	<li>When it comes to paying, I worry that I wont have enough cash. This of course is silly because in the States you can basically pay for anything with your debit/credit/bank card.</li>\r\n	<li>I walk to the grocery store, even though I have a car and I could drive.</li>\r\n	<li>I think that everyone is under-dressed and I can\'t get over how many adults are wearing backpacks in public in Seattle.</li>\r\n</ol>','10 Reasons I Might now be a European at Heart','','inherit','open','open','','193-revision-v1','','','2014-03-06 21:11:12','2014-03-07 05:11:12','',193,'http://carolynemigh.com/193-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(195,2,'2014-03-07 15:41:04','2014-03-07 23:41:04','I have a globe in my apartment that is the globe my MoM bought when I was in elementary school. She bought it before the fall of the Berlin Wall and before the Cold War ended. Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia exit. There are two fairly small Germanies: East and West and in contrast, I can just barely cover the whole of the USSR with my hand.\r\n\r\nWhen the globe came into our home, I spun it round and round and would put my finger down to see which foreign country it would land on. I didn’t dream of traveling to these places. Nope. These places seemed very far away from me. Remote, strange, unknowable.\r\nLast night, I couldn’t stop looking at my globe.\r\n<a title=\"My childhood globe by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12524397233/\"><img alt=\"My childhood globe\" src=\"http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5487/12524397233_5a7aa6051d.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nI’ve been wrapped up in the drama and conflict that is unfolding in starts and fits between Russia and the Ukraine over Crimea.\r\n\r\nI was in Bulgaria in 2009 when Russia cut the natural gas to Europe due to a dispute with the Ukraine over unpaid natural gas debt. No one really thought that Russia would do it. The assumption was that the threat was posturing. Then Russia did it. It was the middle of January and they turned off the gas. Things got cold in Sofia without natural gas. I was glued to the news then too.\r\n\r\nIn Eastern Europe, Russia lurks, omnipresent. In the States, no one it seems thinks twice about Russia until events like these.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI visited the Ukraine in the summer of 2009. I crossed the Polish-Ukrainian boarder on foot on my way to Lviv. I took a train, to a mini-bus which dropped me off at the edge of the EU. I walked the no-man’s land between Poland and the Ukraine. On the Polish side I excited the EU with a quick stamp. On the Ukrainian side, I filled out some paperwork that I just barely understood thanks to my limited Bulgarian and after a little back and forth over half of a form and the fact that I hadn’t filled it out correctly (or at all), I was given an entrance stamp to the Ukraine. I picked up another mini-bus and was dropped off in Lviv.\r\n\r\nI spent three days in Lviv and I loved every minute of it. Fewer people spoke English than in other Eastern European cities that I’d visited and in contrast, Ukrainians also seemed more accommodating of foreigners. Largely my experience was that people was interacting with would smile and make do. They would write out a price for me so I knew how much to pay. They would confirm slowly: kafe? They would smile.\r\n\r\nI left Lviv on an overnight train to Budapest. This is something everyone should do once. The train is old and grimy but it still has a little old-world charm. At the Ukrainian-Hungarian border, border guards climb on the train. It’s the middle of the night. They swing open your cabin door and turn on the lights saying: Passporti! and then they take your passport to check and stamp. In the meantime, the train moves forward and stops, moves forward and stops, moves forward and stops. This happens over and over again.\r\n\r\nWhen it comes to checking passports, the guards can take their time, and do because while they are checking passports, all of the wheels on the train are being changed out. The track sizes are different between the Ukraine and the rest of Europe. Allegedly, Stalin purposefully had the gauge of tracks in Russia made a different size than the rest of Europe to prevent an easy invasion from the West. A quick google search did little to confirm this but I like the idea of this claim regarding Stalin and his trains even if it is just popular myth.\r\n\r\nGiven the state of affairs in Crimea, wouldn’t it be something if it really were that easy to prevent an invasion?','My Childhood Globe, Pre-1989, and the Ukraine Today','','publish','open','open','','my-childhood-globe-pre-1989-and-the-ukraine-2014','','','2014-03-07 15:41:32','2014-03-07 23:41:32','',0,'http://carolynemigh.com/?p=195',0,'post','',1),(196,2,'2014-03-07 15:34:35','2014-03-07 23:34:35','I have a globe in my apartment that is the globe my MoM bought when I was in elementary school. She bought it before the fall of the Berlin Wall and before the Cold War ended. Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia exit. There are two fairly small Germanies: East and West and in contrast, I can just barely cover the whole of the USSR with my hand.\r\n\r\nWhen the globe came into our home, I spun it round and round and would put my finger down to see which foreign country it would land on. I didn’t dream of traveling to these places. Nope. These places seemed very far away from me. Remote, strange, unknowable.\r\nLast night, I couldn’t stop looking at my globe.\r\n\r\nI’ve been wrapped up in the drama and conflict that is unfolding in starts and fits between Russia and the Ukraine over Crimea.\r\n\r\nI was in Bulgaria in 2009 when Russia cut the natural gas to Europe due to a dispute with the Ukraine over unpaid natural gas debt. No one really thought that Russia would do it. The assumption was that the threat was posturing. Then Russia did it. It was the middle of January and they turned off the gas. Things got cold in Sofia without natural gas. I was glued to the news then too.\r\nIn Eastern Europe, Russia lurks. In the States, no one it seems thinks twice about Russia until events like these.\r\n\r\nI visited the Ukraine in the summer of 2009. I crossed the Polish-Ukrainian boarder on foot on my way to Lviv. I took a train, to a mini-bus which dropped me off at the edge of the EU. I walked the no-man’s land between Poland and the Ukraine. On the Polish side I excited the EU with a quick stamp. On the Ukrainian side, I filled out some paperwork that I just barely understood thanks to my limited Bulgarian and after a little back and forth over half of a form and the fact that I hadn’t filled it out correctly (or at all), I was given an entrance stamp to the Ukraine. I picked up another mini-bus and was dropped off in Lviv.\r\n\r\nI spent three days in Lviv and I loved every minute of it. Fewer people spoke English than in other Eastern European cities that I’d visited and in contrast, Ukrainians also seemed more accommodating of foreigners. Largely my experience was that people was interacting with would smile and make do. They would write out a price for me so I knew how much to pay. They would confirm slowly: kafe? They would smile.\r\n\r\nI left Lviv on an overnight train to Budapest. This is something everyone should do once. The train is old and grimy but it still has a little old-world charm. At the Ukrainian-Hungarian border, border guards climb on the train. It’s the middle of the night. They swing open your cabin door and turn on the lights saying: Passporti! and then they take your passport to check and stamp. In the meantime, the train moves forward and stops, moves forward and stops, moves forward and stops. This happens over and over again.\r\n\r\nWhen it comes to checking passports, the guards can take their time, and do because while they are checking passports, all of the wheels on the train are being changed out. The track sizes are different between the Ukraine and the rest of Europe. Allegedly, Stalin purposefully had the gauge of tracks in Russia made a different size than the rest of Europe to prevent an easy invasion from the West. A quick google search did little to confirm this but I like the idea of this claim regarding Stalin and his trains even if it is just popular myth.\r\n\r\nGiven the state of affairs in Crimea, wouldn’t it be something if it really were that easy to prevent an invasion?','','','inherit','open','open','','195-revision-v1','','','2014-03-07 15:34:35','2014-03-07 23:34:35','',195,'http://carolynemigh.com/195-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(197,2,'2014-03-07 15:38:02','2014-03-07 23:38:02','I have a globe in my apartment that is the globe my MoM bought when I was in elementary school. She bought it before the fall of the Berlin Wall and before the Cold War ended. Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia exit. There are two fairly small Germanies: East and West and in contrast, I can just barely cover the whole of the USSR with my hand.\r\n\r\nWhen the globe came into our home, I spun it round and round and would put my finger down to see which foreign country it would land on. I didn’t dream of traveling to these places. Nope. These places seemed very far away from me. Remote, strange, unknowable.\r\nLast night, I couldn’t stop looking at my globe.\r\n<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12524397233/\" title=\"My childhood globe by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5487/12524397233_5a7aa6051d.jpg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"My childhood globe\"></a>\r\nI’ve been wrapped up in the drama and conflict that is unfolding in starts and fits between Russia and the Ukraine over Crimea.\r\n\r\nI was in Bulgaria in 2009 when Russia cut the natural gas to Europe due to a dispute with the Ukraine over unpaid natural gas debt. No one really thought that Russia would do it. The assumption was that the threat was posturing. Then Russia did it. It was the middle of January and they turned off the gas. Things got cold in Sofia without natural gas. I was glued to the news then too.\r\nIn Eastern Europe, Russia lurks. In the States, no one it seems thinks twice about Russia until events like these.\r\n\r\nI visited the Ukraine in the summer of 2009. I crossed the Polish-Ukrainian boarder on foot on my way to Lviv. I took a train, to a mini-bus which dropped me off at the edge of the EU. I walked the no-man’s land between Poland and the Ukraine. On the Polish side I excited the EU with a quick stamp. On the Ukrainian side, I filled out some paperwork that I just barely understood thanks to my limited Bulgarian and after a little back and forth over half of a form and the fact that I hadn’t filled it out correctly (or at all), I was given an entrance stamp to the Ukraine. I picked up another mini-bus and was dropped off in Lviv.\r\n\r\nI spent three days in Lviv and I loved every minute of it. Fewer people spoke English than in other Eastern European cities that I’d visited and in contrast, Ukrainians also seemed more accommodating of foreigners. Largely my experience was that people was interacting with would smile and make do. They would write out a price for me so I knew how much to pay. They would confirm slowly: kafe? They would smile.\r\n\r\nI left Lviv on an overnight train to Budapest. This is something everyone should do once. The train is old and grimy but it still has a little old-world charm. At the Ukrainian-Hungarian border, border guards climb on the train. It’s the middle of the night. They swing open your cabin door and turn on the lights saying: Passporti! and then they take your passport to check and stamp. In the meantime, the train moves forward and stops, moves forward and stops, moves forward and stops. This happens over and over again.\r\n\r\nWhen it comes to checking passports, the guards can take their time, and do because while they are checking passports, all of the wheels on the train are being changed out. The track sizes are different between the Ukraine and the rest of Europe. Allegedly, Stalin purposefully had the gauge of tracks in Russia made a different size than the rest of Europe to prevent an easy invasion from the West. A quick google search did little to confirm this but I like the idea of this claim regarding Stalin and his trains even if it is just popular myth.\r\n\r\nGiven the state of affairs in Crimea, wouldn’t it be something if it really were that easy to prevent an invasion?','My Childhood Globe, Pre-1989, and the Ukraine 2014','','inherit','open','open','','195-revision-v1','','','2014-03-07 15:38:02','2014-03-07 23:38:02','',195,'http://carolynemigh.com/195-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(198,2,'2014-03-07 15:40:49','2014-03-07 23:40:49','I have a globe in my apartment that is the globe my MoM bought when I was in elementary school. She bought it before the fall of the Berlin Wall and before the Cold War ended. Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia exit. There are two fairly small Germanies: East and West and in contrast, I can just barely cover the whole of the USSR with my hand.\r\n\r\nWhen the globe came into our home, I spun it round and round and would put my finger down to see which foreign country it would land on. I didn’t dream of traveling to these places. Nope. These places seemed very far away from me. Remote, strange, unknowable.\r\nLast night, I couldn’t stop looking at my globe.\r\n<a title=\"My childhood globe by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12524397233/\"><img alt=\"My childhood globe\" src=\"http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5487/12524397233_5a7aa6051d.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nI’ve been wrapped up in the drama and conflict that is unfolding in starts and fits between Russia and the Ukraine over Crimea.\r\n\r\nI was in Bulgaria in 2009 when Russia cut the natural gas to Europe due to a dispute with the Ukraine over unpaid natural gas debt. No one really thought that Russia would do it. The assumption was that the threat was posturing. Then Russia did it. It was the middle of January and they turned off the gas. Things got cold in Sofia without natural gas. I was glued to the news then too.\r\n\r\nIn Eastern Europe, Russia lurks, omnipresent. In the States, no one it seems thinks twice about Russia until events like these.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI visited the Ukraine in the summer of 2009. I crossed the Polish-Ukrainian boarder on foot on my way to Lviv. I took a train, to a mini-bus which dropped me off at the edge of the EU. I walked the no-man’s land between Poland and the Ukraine. On the Polish side I excited the EU with a quick stamp. On the Ukrainian side, I filled out some paperwork that I just barely understood thanks to my limited Bulgarian and after a little back and forth over half of a form and the fact that I hadn’t filled it out correctly (or at all), I was given an entrance stamp to the Ukraine. I picked up another mini-bus and was dropped off in Lviv.\r\n\r\nI spent three days in Lviv and I loved every minute of it. Fewer people spoke English than in other Eastern European cities that I’d visited and in contrast, Ukrainians also seemed more accommodating of foreigners. Largely my experience was that people was interacting with would smile and make do. They would write out a price for me so I knew how much to pay. They would confirm slowly: kafe? They would smile.\r\n\r\nI left Lviv on an overnight train to Budapest. This is something everyone should do once. The train is old and grimy but it still has a little old-world charm. At the Ukrainian-Hungarian border, border guards climb on the train. It’s the middle of the night. They swing open your cabin door and turn on the lights saying: Passporti! and then they take your passport to check and stamp. In the meantime, the train moves forward and stops, moves forward and stops, moves forward and stops. This happens over and over again.\r\n\r\nWhen it comes to checking passports, the guards can take their time, and do because while they are checking passports, all of the wheels on the train are being changed out. The track sizes are different between the Ukraine and the rest of Europe. Allegedly, Stalin purposefully had the gauge of tracks in Russia made a different size than the rest of Europe to prevent an easy invasion from the West. A quick google search did little to confirm this but I like the idea of this claim regarding Stalin and his trains even if it is just popular myth.\r\n\r\nGiven the state of affairs in Crimea, wouldn’t it be something if it really were that easy to prevent an invasion?','My Childhood Globe, Pre-1989, and the Ukraine 2014','','inherit','open','open','','195-revision-v1','','','2014-03-07 15:40:49','2014-03-07 23:40:49','',195,'http://carolynemigh.com/195-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(199,2,'2014-03-07 15:41:32','2014-03-07 23:41:32','I have a globe in my apartment that is the globe my MoM bought when I was in elementary school. She bought it before the fall of the Berlin Wall and before the Cold War ended. Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia exit. There are two fairly small Germanies: East and West and in contrast, I can just barely cover the whole of the USSR with my hand.\r\n\r\nWhen the globe came into our home, I spun it round and round and would put my finger down to see which foreign country it would land on. I didn’t dream of traveling to these places. Nope. These places seemed very far away from me. Remote, strange, unknowable.\r\nLast night, I couldn’t stop looking at my globe.\r\n<a title=\"My childhood globe by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/12524397233/\"><img alt=\"My childhood globe\" src=\"http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5487/12524397233_5a7aa6051d.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nI’ve been wrapped up in the drama and conflict that is unfolding in starts and fits between Russia and the Ukraine over Crimea.\r\n\r\nI was in Bulgaria in 2009 when Russia cut the natural gas to Europe due to a dispute with the Ukraine over unpaid natural gas debt. No one really thought that Russia would do it. The assumption was that the threat was posturing. Then Russia did it. It was the middle of January and they turned off the gas. Things got cold in Sofia without natural gas. I was glued to the news then too.\r\n\r\nIn Eastern Europe, Russia lurks, omnipresent. In the States, no one it seems thinks twice about Russia until events like these.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI visited the Ukraine in the summer of 2009. I crossed the Polish-Ukrainian boarder on foot on my way to Lviv. I took a train, to a mini-bus which dropped me off at the edge of the EU. I walked the no-man’s land between Poland and the Ukraine. On the Polish side I excited the EU with a quick stamp. On the Ukrainian side, I filled out some paperwork that I just barely understood thanks to my limited Bulgarian and after a little back and forth over half of a form and the fact that I hadn’t filled it out correctly (or at all), I was given an entrance stamp to the Ukraine. I picked up another mini-bus and was dropped off in Lviv.\r\n\r\nI spent three days in Lviv and I loved every minute of it. Fewer people spoke English than in other Eastern European cities that I’d visited and in contrast, Ukrainians also seemed more accommodating of foreigners. Largely my experience was that people was interacting with would smile and make do. They would write out a price for me so I knew how much to pay. They would confirm slowly: kafe? They would smile.\r\n\r\nI left Lviv on an overnight train to Budapest. This is something everyone should do once. The train is old and grimy but it still has a little old-world charm. At the Ukrainian-Hungarian border, border guards climb on the train. It’s the middle of the night. They swing open your cabin door and turn on the lights saying: Passporti! and then they take your passport to check and stamp. In the meantime, the train moves forward and stops, moves forward and stops, moves forward and stops. This happens over and over again.\r\n\r\nWhen it comes to checking passports, the guards can take their time, and do because while they are checking passports, all of the wheels on the train are being changed out. The track sizes are different between the Ukraine and the rest of Europe. Allegedly, Stalin purposefully had the gauge of tracks in Russia made a different size than the rest of Europe to prevent an easy invasion from the West. A quick google search did little to confirm this but I like the idea of this claim regarding Stalin and his trains even if it is just popular myth.\r\n\r\nGiven the state of affairs in Crimea, wouldn’t it be something if it really were that easy to prevent an invasion?','My Childhood Globe, Pre-1989, and the Ukraine Today','','inherit','open','open','','195-revision-v1','','','2014-03-07 15:41:32','2014-03-07 23:41:32','',195,'http://carolynemigh.com/195-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(219,2,'2014-03-17 15:38:50','2014-03-17 22:38:50','So I mentioned last week that <a title=\"Earth Day 5k Post\" href=\"http://carolynemigh.com/upcoming-earth-day-5k-and-me/\" target=\"_blank\">I\'m going to be running a 5K in April</a>.\r\n\r\nThis weekend, my sister C. asked me how my training was going. I explained that I\'d printed out a schedule and that the first thing I did was up and run 5K to see if I could do it instead of following the training schedule. She laughed at me. Then she asked what else I\'d been doing and how the training was going.\r\n\r\nI told her that on Friday the schedule said that I should walk for 3-5 miles. This seemed kind of boring to me so instead I went to the gym and rode 10 miles on a stationary bike while doing sprints--1 minute slow, 1 minute fast--for 30 minutes and 5 minutes of cool down.\r\n\r\nC. nodded along while I told her about my adjustments to the schedule.\r\n\r\nThen I explained that the next day on the schedule I printed out was a rest day but that given the fact I\'d started the week late, I skipped the rest day and went on a 3 mile run/walk. It was a good thing that I did because I made exactly .11 cents on my run.\r\n\r\nI found one dime and a shinny penny on the sidewalk near the corner of 57th and 24th!! What, what?! Nobody told me that running pays!\r\n\r\nAt this point, my sister looked at me and laughed: So you\'re not following the training schedule at all then, huna?\r\n\r\nMe: when you put it that way, nope.\r\n\r\nI guess maybe I should look up a more interesting training schedule. I might also need to buy a better sports bra.','Earth Day 5K: I found .11 cents on my run','','publish','open','open','','earth-day-5k-i-found-11-cents-on-my-run','','\nhttp://carolynemigh.com/upcoming-earth-day-5k-and-me/','2014-03-17 15:38:50','2014-03-17 22:38:50','',0,'http://carolynemigh.com/?p=219',0,'post','',0),(201,2,'2014-03-08 12:18:11','2014-03-08 20:18:11','I went on the best date recently. We met at my place and walked down the street to <a href=\"http://www.cafebesalu.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Cafe Besalu</a>. I\'ve been by this bakery/cafe plenty of times and when I moved into my neighborhood my Uncle J. told me that Cafe Besalu serves the best French pastries. Um, yes please.\r\n<a title=\"Sweets by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13002405943/\"><img alt=\"Sweets\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7449/13002405943_ebb6c7a99c_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nI can\'t believe how long it took me to stake out a table in the window to enjoy and Americano and a croissant. This place was amazing.\r\n\r\nWhile I sometimes dream of Paris, I now know I can get a croissant that rivals anything I\'ve ever eaten in Paris within three blocks of my Ballard apartment. How great is that?!\r\n\r\nBut it\'s even better to be able to share it with friends.\r\n\r\n<a style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\" title=\"P at Cafe Besalu by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13002240595/\"><img alt=\"P at Cafe Besalu\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7320/13002240595_e75fbcbf78_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a> My date P. fit into the cafe just perfectly with his layered t-shirt combo. He had a hot chocolate and a cookie. Well actually, he decided that he didn\'t want his cookie. So his mom A. who happens to be one of my dear high school friends had a quiche, a cookie and a cappuccino (or maybe it was a latte).<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe hot chocolate was perfect or so I must assume. Mr. P. drank his with a straw and never put it down. Then he got serious about drawing. He drew a lot of classic cars and Alaskan airlines. As you can see, his line work thoughtful if not impressionistic and his color palette is simple but allows for a wide range of emotion.\r\n<a title=\"Drawing by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13002392113/\"><img alt=\"Drawing\" src=\"http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2436/13002392113_8f53eff902_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nDid I mention how cute my date P. was?\r\n\r\nSo cute and funny. Very funny.\r\n<a title=\"P at Cafe Besalu by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13002353843/\"><img alt=\"P at Cafe Besalu\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7397/13002353843_39ebdce44f_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\n<a title=\"Americano at Cafe Besalu by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13002374943/\"><img alt=\"Americano at Cafe Besalu\" src=\"http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3101/13002374943_0ee69eb42a_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nA. and I had a wonderful time catching up and marveling at how lucky we were to snag a table in the window. The cafe got steadily busier but no one every seemed huffy or in a hurry. The fact that it was a Sunday probably helped.\r\n<a title=\"A and P at Cafe Besalu by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13002657504/\"><img alt=\"A and P at Cafe Besalu\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7440/13002657504_e5eb40aa96_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nOh and I almost forgot, Cafe Besalu recently showed up on <a title=\"Yelp and Cafe Besalu\" href=\"http://officialblog.yelp.com/2014/02/yelp-data-reveals-top-100-places-to-eat-bookmark-these-babies-now.html\" target=\"_blank\">Yelp\'s Top 100 restaurants in the US</a>. It\'s #33. That\'s pretty cool.\r\n\r\nYou should probably check it out.','Ballard, Cafe Besalu and a Sunday Date','','publish','open','open','','ballard-cafe-besalu-and-a-sunday-date','','','2014-03-08 12:18:11','2014-03-08 20:18:11','',0,'http://carolynemigh.com/?p=201',0,'post','',4),(202,2,'2014-03-07 19:39:11','2014-03-08 03:39:11','I went on the best date recently. We met at my place and walked down the street to <a href=\"http://www.cafebesalu.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Cafe Besalu</a>. I\'ve been by this bakery/cafe plenty of times and when I moved into my neighborhood my Uncle J. told me that Cafe Besalu serves the best French pastries. Um, yes please.\r\n\r\nI can\'t believe how long it took me to stake out a table in the window to enjoy and Americano and a croissant. This place was amazing.\r\n\r\nWhile I sometimes dream of Paris, I now know I can get a croissant that rivals anything I\'ve ever eaten in Paris within three blocks of my Ballard apartment. How great is that?!\r\n\r\nMy date P. had a hot chocolate and a cookie. His mom A. who happens to be one of my dear high school friends had a quiche, a cookie and a cappuccino (or maybe a latte).\r\n\r\nThe hot chocolate was perfect or so I must assume. Mr. P. drank his with a straw and never put it down. Then he got serious about drawing. He drew a lot of classic cars and Alaskan airlines. As you can see, his line work thoughtful if not impressionistic and his color palette is simple but allows for a wide range of emotion.\r\n\r\nA. and I had a wonderful time catching up and marveling at how lucky we were to snag a table in the window. The cafe got steadily busier but no one every seemed huffy or in a hurry. The fact that it was a Sunday probably helped.\r\n\r\nOh and I almost forgot, Cafe Besalu recently showed up on <a title=\"Yelp and Cafe Besalu\" href=\"http://officialblog.yelp.com/2014/02/yelp-data-reveals-top-100-places-to-eat-bookmark-these-babies-now.html\" target=\"_blank\">Yelp\'s Top 100 restaurants in the US</a>. It\'s #33. That\'s pretty cool.','Ballard, Cafe Besalu and a Sunday Date','','inherit','open','open','','201-revision-v1','','','2014-03-07 19:39:11','2014-03-08 03:39:11','',201,'http://carolynemigh.com/201-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(203,2,'2014-03-07 19:43:28','2014-03-08 03:43:28','I went on the best date recently. We met at my place and walked down the street to <a href=\"http://www.cafebesalu.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Cafe Besalu</a>. I\'ve been by this bakery/cafe plenty of times and when I moved into my neighborhood my Uncle J. told me that Cafe Besalu serves the best French pastries. Um, yes please.\r\n\r\nI can\'t believe how long it took me to stake out a table in the window to enjoy and Americano and a croissant. This place was amazing.\r\n\r\nWhile I sometimes dream of Paris, I now know I can get a croissant that rivals anything I\'ve ever eaten in Paris within three blocks of my Ballard apartment. How great is that?!\r\n\r\nMy date P. had a hot chocolate and a cookie. His mom A. who happens to be one of my dear high school friends had a quiche, a cookie and a cappuccino (or maybe a latte).\r\n\r\nThe hot chocolate was perfect or so I must assume. Mr. P. drank his with a straw and never put it down. Then he got serious about drawing. He drew a lot of classic cars and Alaskan airlines. As you can see, his line work thoughtful if not impressionistic and his color palette is simple but allows for a wide range of emotion.\r\n\r\nA. and I had a wonderful time catching up and marveling at how lucky we were to snag a table in the window. The cafe got steadily busier but no one every seemed huffy or in a hurry. The fact that it was a Sunday probably helped.\r\n\r\nOh and I almost forgot, Cafe Besalu recently showed up on <a title=\"Yelp and Cafe Besalu\" href=\"http://officialblog.yelp.com/2014/02/yelp-data-reveals-top-100-places-to-eat-bookmark-these-babies-now.html\" target=\"_blank\">Yelp\'s Top 100 restaurants in the US</a>. It\'s #33. That\'s pretty cool.\r\n\r\nYou should probably check it out.','Ballard, Cafe Besalu and a Sunday Date','','inherit','open','open','','201-revision-v1','','','2014-03-07 19:43:28','2014-03-08 03:43:28','',201,'http://carolynemigh.com/201-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(204,2,'2014-03-08 12:18:11','2014-03-08 20:18:11','I went on the best date recently. We met at my place and walked down the street to <a href=\"http://www.cafebesalu.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Cafe Besalu</a>. I\'ve been by this bakery/cafe plenty of times and when I moved into my neighborhood my Uncle J. told me that Cafe Besalu serves the best French pastries. Um, yes please.\r\n<a title=\"Sweets by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13002405943/\"><img alt=\"Sweets\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7449/13002405943_ebb6c7a99c_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nI can\'t believe how long it took me to stake out a table in the window to enjoy and Americano and a croissant. This place was amazing.\r\n\r\nWhile I sometimes dream of Paris, I now know I can get a croissant that rivals anything I\'ve ever eaten in Paris within three blocks of my Ballard apartment. How great is that?!\r\n\r\nBut it\'s even better to be able to share it with friends.\r\n\r\n<a style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\" title=\"P at Cafe Besalu by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13002240595/\"><img alt=\"P at Cafe Besalu\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7320/13002240595_e75fbcbf78_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a> My date P. fit into the cafe just perfectly with his layered t-shirt combo. He had a hot chocolate and a cookie. Well actually, he decided that he didn\'t want his cookie. So his mom A. who happens to be one of my dear high school friends had a quiche, a cookie and a cappuccino (or maybe it was a latte).<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe hot chocolate was perfect or so I must assume. Mr. P. drank his with a straw and never put it down. Then he got serious about drawing. He drew a lot of classic cars and Alaskan airlines. As you can see, his line work thoughtful if not impressionistic and his color palette is simple but allows for a wide range of emotion.\r\n<a title=\"Drawing by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13002392113/\"><img alt=\"Drawing\" src=\"http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2436/13002392113_8f53eff902_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nDid I mention how cute my date P. was?\r\n\r\nSo cute and funny. Very funny.\r\n<a title=\"P at Cafe Besalu by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13002353843/\"><img alt=\"P at Cafe Besalu\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7397/13002353843_39ebdce44f_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\n<a title=\"Americano at Cafe Besalu by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13002374943/\"><img alt=\"Americano at Cafe Besalu\" src=\"http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3101/13002374943_0ee69eb42a_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nA. and I had a wonderful time catching up and marveling at how lucky we were to snag a table in the window. The cafe got steadily busier but no one every seemed huffy or in a hurry. The fact that it was a Sunday probably helped.\r\n<a title=\"A and P at Cafe Besalu by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13002657504/\"><img alt=\"A and P at Cafe Besalu\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7440/13002657504_e5eb40aa96_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nOh and I almost forgot, Cafe Besalu recently showed up on <a title=\"Yelp and Cafe Besalu\" href=\"http://officialblog.yelp.com/2014/02/yelp-data-reveals-top-100-places-to-eat-bookmark-these-babies-now.html\" target=\"_blank\">Yelp\'s Top 100 restaurants in the US</a>. It\'s #33. That\'s pretty cool.\r\n\r\nYou should probably check it out.','Ballard, Cafe Besalu and a Sunday Date','','inherit','open','open','','201-revision-v1','','','2014-03-08 12:18:11','2014-03-08 20:18:11','',201,'http://carolynemigh.com/201-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(205,2,'2014-03-09 09:30:09','0000-00-00 00:00:00','Full disclosure: a week ago, I didn\'t own rainboots. Last Sunday after the adventure I am about to describe, I took off my wet boots, made some tea and bought a pair of rainboots online. I want to be prepared for next time.\n\nMy friend A. and her son P. came over to checkout my apartment, have a coffee and explore the Sunday morning Farmer\'s Market.\n\nNow I don\'t know P. very well. He\'s three and a bit, I think. A. told me and I\'ve already forgotten. The first time I met him, he was tiny and spent the better part of a mutual friend\'s wedding sleeping in a car-seat-baby-carrier-basket-thing.\n\nSince moving back to Seattle, I\'ve seen him a couple of times but he was a little shy or maybe just preoccupied playing with toys and friends his own age. Now a general rule of thumb, kids like me and I like them but for whatever reason P. and I hadn\'t clicked.\n\nThings changed after our coffee and hot chocolate at Cafe Besalu.\n\nFirst stop: construction site.\n\nSecond stop: QFC.\n\nThird stop: Bike rack.\n\nFourth stop: Ballard Farmer\'s Market including buying purple potatoes and carrying them around in a paper bag, some street musicians, a sign and a curb.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nFifth stop: The same bike rack as in Stop #3.\n\nThis little kid is Seattle to the core. He didn\'t even notice the rain and kept shouting with glee after jumping in puddles: I got water in my boots! For P. this was a very happy moment because it signaled what a big jump he\'d had.\n\nHe did it again and again. So I took picture after picture. A. stood by watching this scene.','Playing in Puddles in Ballard','','draft','open','open','','','','','2014-03-09 09:30:09','2014-03-09 16:30:09','',0,'http://carolynemigh.com/?p=205',0,'post','',0),(206,2,'2014-03-09 22:12:55','0000-00-00 00:00:00','Full disclosure: a week ago, I didn\'t own rainboots. Last Sunday after the adventure I am about to describe, I took off my wet boots, made some tea and bought a pair of rainboots online. I want to be prepared for next time. My friend A. and her son P. came over to checkout my apartment, have a coffee and explore the Sunday morning Farmer\'s Market. Now I don\'t know P. very well. He\'s three and a bit, I think. A. told me and I\'ve already forgotten. The first time I met him, he was tiny and spent the better part of a mutual friend\'s wedding sleeping in a car-seat-baby-carrier-basket-thing. Since moving back to Seattle, I\'ve seen him a couple of times but he was a little shy or maybe just preoccupied playing with toys and friends his own age. Now a general rule of thumb, kids like me and I like them but for whatever reason P. and I hadn\'t clicked. Things changed after our coffee and hot chocolate at Cafe Besalu. First stop: construction site. Second stop: QFC. Third stop: Bike rack. Fourth stop: Ballard Farmer\'s Market including buying purple potatoes and carrying them around in a paper bag, some street musicians, a sign and a curb.   Fifth stop: The same bike rack as in Stop #3. This little kid is Seattle to the core. He didn\'t even notice the rain and kept shouting with glee after jumping in puddles: I got water in my boots! For P. this was a very happy moment because it signaled what a big jump he\'d had. He did it again and again. So I took picture after picture. A. stood by watching this scene.','','','draft','open','open','','','','','2014-03-09 22:12:55','2014-03-10 05:12:55','',0,'http://carolynemigh.com/?p=206',0,'post','',0),(207,2,'2014-03-09 22:12:55','2014-03-10 05:12:55','Full disclosure: a week ago, I didn\'t own rainboots. Last Sunday after the adventure I am about to describe, I took off my wet boots, made some tea and bought a pair of rainboots online. I want to be prepared for next time. My friend A. and her son P. came over to checkout my apartment, have a coffee and explore the Sunday morning Farmer\'s Market. Now I don\'t know P. very well. He\'s three and a bit, I think. A. told me and I\'ve already forgotten. The first time I met him, he was tiny and spent the better part of a mutual friend\'s wedding sleeping in a car-seat-baby-carrier-basket-thing. Since moving back to Seattle, I\'ve seen him a couple of times but he was a little shy or maybe just preoccupied playing with toys and friends his own age. Now a general rule of thumb, kids like me and I like them but for whatever reason P. and I hadn\'t clicked. Things changed after our coffee and hot chocolate at Cafe Besalu. First stop: construction site. Second stop: QFC. Third stop: Bike rack. Fourth stop: Ballard Farmer\'s Market including buying purple potatoes and carrying them around in a paper bag, some street musicians, a sign and a curb.   Fifth stop: The same bike rack as in Stop #3. This little kid is Seattle to the core. He didn\'t even notice the rain and kept shouting with glee after jumping in puddles: I got water in my boots! For P. this was a very happy moment because it signaled what a big jump he\'d had. He did it again and again. So I took picture after picture. A. stood by watching this scene.','','','inherit','open','open','','206-revision-v1','','','2014-03-09 22:12:55','2014-03-10 05:12:55','',206,'http://carolynemigh.com/206-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(209,2,'2014-03-13 22:35:33','2014-03-14 05:35:33','I\'m not a runner. My parents both ran marathons in the 1970\'s before it was cool. My bother ran cross-country in high school. This said, I\'ve never gotten into the whole running-thing. Then it became cool. Everybody was running marathons and half-marathons. All of my friends were supporting various causes and I was sending them money to support their charity and their running.\r\n\r\nI felt like this meant that I didn\'t have to take up running. My friends were doing it for me. This is not to say that I am a total laze-about either.\r\n\r\nI got to the guy 3-4 times a week. I walk as much as I can. I almost never drive to the grocery store, the library or the drycleaners. I can walk so I do. I like walking it lets me really get a feel for a neighborhood and frankly, some of my favorite bars, cafes and shops are places that I discovered walking around.\r\n\r\nSo this is a big build up to say, I\'ve decided to run a <a href=\"http://seattlemag.com/article/earth-day-run-2014\" target=\"_blank\">5k in April for Earth Day</a>. I\'ve never run a 5K before. I figured that it would be good for me to do something new.\r\n\r\nI looked up a training program routine for beginners. It\'s six weeks long and seemed totally do-able. Today after work, I thought: I\'ll do Day 1.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Day 1: Walk briskly for 1 mile. Run 2 minutes every half mile until you read 3.5 miles. Walk .5 mile.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nI got home, changed my clothes, put on my running shoes and thought: I wonder if I can run a 5k without stopping? How fast could I do it?\r\n\r\nGiven the fact that I don\'t really run, I had no idea. So I decided that I would run what is probably the least interesting route ever but one that was easy to judge the distance. I ran from my house on 24th down 65th Street to Phinney Ave N. and back. This was 5.5K. I ran the whole thing aside from a very intimidating hill in the middle of my run where I ran a bloc, walked a block.\r\n\r\nI did the whole thing in 44 minutes which is about 13 minutes a mile. I am clearly not going to be winning any races at this speed but I did it. I also didn\'t die. So, there\'s that.\r\n\r\nActually, I finished feeling pretty good about things and I still do.','Upcoming Earth Day 5K and Me','','publish','open','open','','upcoming-earth-day-5k-and-me','','','2014-03-14 09:07:29','2014-03-14 16:07:29','',0,'http://carolynemigh.com/?p=209',0,'post','',0),(210,2,'2014-03-14 09:07:29','2014-03-14 16:07:29','I\'m not a runner. My parents both ran marathons in the 1970\'s before it was cool. My bother ran cross-country in high school. This said, I\'ve never gotten into the whole running-thing. Then it became cool. Everybody was running marathons and half-marathons. All of my friends were supporting various causes and I was sending them money to support their charity and their running.\r\n\r\nI felt like this meant that I didn\'t have to take up running. My friends were doing it for me. This is not to say that I am a total laze-about either.\r\n\r\nI got to the guy 3-4 times a week. I walk as much as I can. I almost never drive to the grocery store, the library or the drycleaners. I can walk so I do. I like walking it lets me really get a feel for a neighborhood and frankly, some of my favorite bars, cafes and shops are places that I discovered walking around.\r\n\r\nSo this is a big build up to say, I\'ve decided to run a <a href=\"http://seattlemag.com/article/earth-day-run-2014\" target=\"_blank\">5k in April for Earth Day</a>. I\'ve never run a 5K before. I figured that it would be good for me to do something new.\r\n\r\nI looked up a training program routine for beginners. It\'s six weeks long and seemed totally do-able. Today after work, I thought: I\'ll do Day 1.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Day 1: Walk briskly for 1 mile. Run 2 minutes every half mile until you read 3.5 miles. Walk .5 mile.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nI got home, changed my clothes, put on my running shoes and thought: I wonder if I can run a 5k without stopping? How fast could I do it?\r\n\r\nGiven the fact that I don\'t really run, I had no idea. So I decided that I would run what is probably the least interesting route ever but one that was easy to judge the distance. I ran from my house on 24th down 65th Street to Phinney Ave N. and back. This was 5.5K. I ran the whole thing aside from a very intimidating hill in the middle of my run where I ran a bloc, walked a block.\r\n\r\nI did the whole thing in 44 minutes which is about 13 minutes a mile. I am clearly not going to be winning any races at this speed but I did it. I also didn\'t die. So, there\'s that.\r\n\r\nActually, I finished feeling pretty good about things and I still do.','Upcoming Earth Day 5K and Me','','inherit','open','open','','209-revision-v1','','','2014-03-14 09:07:29','2014-03-14 16:07:29','',209,'http://carolynemigh.com/209-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(211,2,'2014-03-14 09:45:56','2014-03-14 16:45:56',' It seems safe to say that spring has found us in Seattle. We didn\'t have much of a winter which is nice in contrast to the winter I survived last year in Sofia. Seattle had a single bout of snow but it hardly stuck around--one Saturday night there was snow and by Sunday evening it was gone.\r\n\r\nMarch brought rain and sunshine, a combo which plants, trees and flowers love. The whole city is verdant.\r\n<a title=\"Martenitsa Seattle by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13150178714/\"><img alt=\"Martenitsa Seattle\" src=\"http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2299/13150178714_07e315af32_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nThis means that last weekend I was able to hang one of my martenitsi in a blooming tree by my bus stop. I smelled the tree before I really saw it.\r\n\r\nThen I proceeded to take lots of pictures of it with my smart phone. It was rather hard to capture because the wind was blowing it around. I nearly missed by bus in the process.\r\n\r\nEvery morning this week in the semi-darkness (Thanks, Day Light Savings?!), I\'ve looked for my martenitsa hanging there in the tree. I like knowing that it\'s there. I like keeping an eye on it.\r\n\r\nIt\'s my own little celebration of spring and it reminds me of my life in Bulgaria.\r\n<a title=\"Seattle and my Martenitsa by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13149762594/\"><img alt=\"Seattle and my Martenitsa\" src=\"http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2797/13149762594_469eb9e1db.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nI am trying to be more mindful of these little details.\r\n\r\nThe weather hasn\'t quite been nice enough to sit outside and have a beer but I am waiting for it. One day, sooner than later, I hope. Maybe then I\'ll hang up my other martenitsa of Peugeot and Penda.','Spring in Seattle and my Martenitsa ','','publish','open','open','','spring-in-seattle-and-my-martenitsa','','','2014-03-14 09:45:56','2014-03-14 16:45:56','',0,'http://carolynemigh.com/?p=211',0,'post','',0),(213,2,'2014-03-14 09:42:34','2014-03-14 16:42:34',' It seems safe to say that spring has found us in Seattle. We didn\'t have much of a winter which is nice in contrast to the winter I survived last year in Sofia. Seattle had a single bout of snow but it hardly stuck around--one Saturday night there was snow and by Sunday evening it was gone.\r\n\r\nMarch brought rain and sunshine, a combo which plants, trees and flowers love. The whole city is verdant.\r\n<iframe src=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13150178714/player/07e315af32\" height=\"240\" width=\"100%\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"></iframe>\r\nThis means that last weekend I was able to hang one of my martenitsi in a blooming tree by my bus stop. I smelled the tree before I really saw it.\r\n\r\nThen I proceeded to take lots of pictures of it with my smart phone. It was rather hard to capture because the wind was blowing it around. I nearly missed by bus in the process.\r\n\r\nEvery morning this week in the semi-darkness (Thanks, Day Light Savings?!), I\'ve looked for my martenitsa hanging there in the tree. I like knowing that it\'s there. I like keeping an eye on it.\r\n<iframe src=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13149762594/player/469eb9e1db\" height=\"240\" width=\"100%\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"></iframe>\r\nIt\'s my own little celebration of spring and it reminds me of my life in Bulgaria.\r\n\r\nI am trying to be more mindful of these little details.\r\n\r\nThe weather hasn\'t quite been nice enough to sit outside and have a beer but I am waiting for it. One day, sooner than later, I hope. Maybe then I\'ll hang up my other martenitsa of Peugeot and Penda.','Spring in Seattle and my Martenitsa ','','inherit','open','open','','211-revision-v1','','','2014-03-14 09:42:34','2014-03-14 16:42:34','',211,'http://carolynemigh.com/211-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(212,2,'2014-03-14 09:42:25','2014-03-14 16:42:25',' It seems safe to say that spring has found us in Seattle. We didn\'t have much of a winter which is nice in contrast to the winter I survived last year in Sofia. Seattle had a single bout of snow but it hardly stuck around--one Saturday night there was snow and by Sunday evening it was gone.\r\n\r\nMarch brought rain and sunshine, a combo which plants, trees and flowers love. The whole city is verdant.\r\n<iframe src=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13150178714/player/07e315af32\"  width=\"100%\"  frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe>\r\nThis means that last weekend I was able to hang one of my martenitsi in a blooming tree by my bus stop. I smelled the tree before I really saw it.\r\n\r\nThen I proceeded to take lots of pictures of it with my smart phone. It was rather hard to capture because the wind was blowing it around. I nearly missed by bus in the process.\r\n\r\nEvery morning this week in the semi-darkness (Thanks, Day Light Savings?!), I\'ve looked for my martenitsa hanging there in the tree. I like knowing that it\'s there. I like keeping an eye on it.\r\n<iframe src=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13149762594/player/469eb9e1db\" width=\"100%\"  frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe>\r\nIt\'s my own little celebration of spring and it reminds me of my life in Bulgaria.\r\n\r\nI am trying to be more mindful of these little details.\r\n\r\nThe weather hasn\'t quite been nice enough to sit outside and have a beer but I am waiting for it. One day, sooner than later, I hope. Maybe then I\'ll hang up my other martenitsa of Peugeot and Penda.','Spring in Seattle and my Martenitsa ','','inherit','open','open','','211-revision-v1','','','2014-03-14 09:42:25','2014-03-14 16:42:25','',211,'http://carolynemigh.com/211-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(214,2,'2014-03-14 09:45:20','2014-03-14 16:45:20',' It seems safe to say that spring has found us in Seattle. We didn\'t have much of a winter which is nice in contrast to the winter I survived last year in Sofia. Seattle had a single bout of snow but it hardly stuck around--one Saturday night there was snow and by Sunday evening it was gone.\r\n\r\nMarch brought rain and sunshine, a combo which plants, trees and flowers love. The whole city is verdant.\r\n<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13150178714/\" title=\"Martenitsa Seattle by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2299/13150178714_07e315af32_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\"  alt=\"Martenitsa Seattle\"></a>\r\nThis means that last weekend I was able to hang one of my martenitsi in a blooming tree by my bus stop. I smelled the tree before I really saw it.\r\n\r\nThen I proceeded to take lots of pictures of it with my smart phone. It was rather hard to capture because the wind was blowing it around. I nearly missed by bus in the process.\r\n\r\nEvery morning this week in the semi-darkness (Thanks, Day Light Savings?!), I\'ve looked for my martenitsa hanging there in the tree. I like knowing that it\'s there. I like keeping an eye on it.\r\n\r\nIt\'s my own little celebration of spring and it reminds me of my life in Bulgaria.\r\n<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13149762594/\" title=\"Seattle and my Martenitsa by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2797/13149762594_469eb9e1db.jpg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"Seattle and my Martenitsa\"></a>\r\nI am trying to be more mindful of these little details.\r\n\r\nThe weather hasn\'t quite been nice enough to sit outside and have a beer but I am waiting for it. One day, sooner than later, I hope. Maybe then I\'ll hang up my other martenitsa of Peugeot and Penda.','Spring in Seattle and my Martenitsa ','','inherit','open','open','','211-revision-v1','','','2014-03-14 09:45:20','2014-03-14 16:45:20','',211,'http://carolynemigh.com/211-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(215,2,'2014-03-14 09:45:56','2014-03-14 16:45:56',' It seems safe to say that spring has found us in Seattle. We didn\'t have much of a winter which is nice in contrast to the winter I survived last year in Sofia. Seattle had a single bout of snow but it hardly stuck around--one Saturday night there was snow and by Sunday evening it was gone.\r\n\r\nMarch brought rain and sunshine, a combo which plants, trees and flowers love. The whole city is verdant.\r\n<a title=\"Martenitsa Seattle by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13150178714/\"><img alt=\"Martenitsa Seattle\" src=\"http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2299/13150178714_07e315af32_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nThis means that last weekend I was able to hang one of my martenitsi in a blooming tree by my bus stop. I smelled the tree before I really saw it.\r\n\r\nThen I proceeded to take lots of pictures of it with my smart phone. It was rather hard to capture because the wind was blowing it around. I nearly missed by bus in the process.\r\n\r\nEvery morning this week in the semi-darkness (Thanks, Day Light Savings?!), I\'ve looked for my martenitsa hanging there in the tree. I like knowing that it\'s there. I like keeping an eye on it.\r\n\r\nIt\'s my own little celebration of spring and it reminds me of my life in Bulgaria.\r\n<a title=\"Seattle and my Martenitsa by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13149762594/\"><img alt=\"Seattle and my Martenitsa\" src=\"http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2797/13149762594_469eb9e1db.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nI am trying to be more mindful of these little details.\r\n\r\nThe weather hasn\'t quite been nice enough to sit outside and have a beer but I am waiting for it. One day, sooner than later, I hope. Maybe then I\'ll hang up my other martenitsa of Peugeot and Penda.','Spring in Seattle and my Martenitsa ','','inherit','open','open','','211-revision-v1','','','2014-03-14 09:45:56','2014-03-14 16:45:56','',211,'http://carolynemigh.com/211-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(216,2,'2014-03-15 09:00:02','2014-03-15 16:00:02','This book, <a title=\"Tuner of Silences\" href=\"http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ATLNH6Y/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00ATLNH6Y&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=afrbooclu-20\" target=\"_blank\">The Turner of Silence by Mia Couto</a>, was like reading a dream. I loved it, I think, but I am not 100% sure what to make of the novel.\r\n\r\nAbove all, it was beautifully written. The novel is lyrical and magical.\r\n\r\nHowever, if you asked me what the novel is <em>about</em>, I\'d be hard pressed to give you a succinct solid answer to this question. Likewise, it\'s difficult to summarize the plot.\r\n\r\nDoris Lessing said this about the novel: \"Quite unlike anything else I have read from Africa.\" So I knew that I had to read it. I mean, I adore Doris Lessing and I\'d read anything she told me to read.\r\n\r\nI have to agree with Doris Lessing and expand her claim. I\'ve never read another novel like this. The prose is almost like poetry, the dialogue is crisp and the descriptions of place transport me to this foreign land and invented country.\r\n\r\nUltimately this book seems to explore the question: what makes a man--history, country, place, family, war, language, love, death?','Read: The Tuner of Silences','','publish','open','open','','read-the-tuner-of-silences','','','2014-03-14 10:31:22','2014-03-14 17:31:22','',0,'http://carolynemigh.com/?p=216',0,'post','',0),(217,2,'2014-03-14 10:21:09','2014-03-14 17:21:09','This book, The Turner of Silence by Mia Couto, was like reading a dream. I loved it, I think, but I am not 100% sure what to make of the novel.\r\n\r\nAbove all, it was beautifully written. The novel is lyrical and magical.\r\n\r\nHowever, if you asked me what the novel is <em>about</em>, I\'d be hard pressed to give you a suscinet solid answer to this question. Likewise, it\'s difficult to summarize the plot.\r\n\r\nDoris Lessing said this about the novel:\r\n<blockquote>Quite unlike anything else I have read from Africa.</blockquote>\r\nSo I knew that I had to read it.','Read: The Tuner of Silences','','inherit','open','open','','216-revision-v1','','','2014-03-14 10:21:09','2014-03-14 17:21:09','',216,'http://carolynemigh.com/216-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(218,2,'2014-03-14 10:31:22','2014-03-14 17:31:22','This book, <a title=\"Tuner of Silences\" href=\"http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ATLNH6Y/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00ATLNH6Y&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=afrbooclu-20\" target=\"_blank\">The Turner of Silence by Mia Couto</a>, was like reading a dream. I loved it, I think, but I am not 100% sure what to make of the novel.\r\n\r\nAbove all, it was beautifully written. The novel is lyrical and magical.\r\n\r\nHowever, if you asked me what the novel is <em>about</em>, I\'d be hard pressed to give you a succinct solid answer to this question. Likewise, it\'s difficult to summarize the plot.\r\n\r\nDoris Lessing said this about the novel: \"Quite unlike anything else I have read from Africa.\" So I knew that I had to read it. I mean, I adore Doris Lessing and I\'d read anything she told me to read.\r\n\r\nI have to agree with Doris Lessing and expand her claim. I\'ve never read another novel like this. The prose is almost like poetry, the dialogue is crisp and the descriptions of place transport me to this foreign land and invented country.\r\n\r\nUltimately this book seems to explore the question: what makes a man--history, country, place, family, war, language, love, death?','Read: The Tuner of Silences','','inherit','open','open','','216-revision-v1','','','2014-03-14 10:31:22','2014-03-14 17:31:22','',216,'http://carolynemigh.com/216-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(220,2,'2014-03-17 15:38:50','2014-03-17 22:38:50','So I mentioned last week that <a title=\"Earth Day 5k Post\" href=\"http://carolynemigh.com/upcoming-earth-day-5k-and-me/\" target=\"_blank\">I\'m going to be running a 5K in April</a>.\r\n\r\nThis weekend, my sister C. asked me how my training was going. I explained that I\'d printed out a schedule and that the first thing I did was up and run 5K to see if I could do it instead of following the training schedule. She laughed at me. Then she asked what else I\'d been doing and how the training was going.\r\n\r\nI told her that on Friday the schedule said that I should walk for 3-5 miles. This seemed kind of boring to me so instead I went to the gym and rode 10 miles on a stationary bike while doing sprints--1 minute slow, 1 minute fast--for 30 minutes and 5 minutes of cool down.\r\n\r\nC. nodded along while I told her about my adjustments to the schedule.\r\n\r\nThen I explained that the next day on the schedule I printed out was a rest day but that given the fact I\'d started the week late, I skipped the rest day and went on a 3 mile run/walk. It was a good thing that I did because I made exactly .11 cents on my run.\r\n\r\nI found one dime and a shinny penny on the sidewalk near the corner of 57th and 24th!! What, what?! Nobody told me that running pays!\r\n\r\nAt this point, my sister looked at me and laughed: So you\'re not following the training schedule at all then, huna?\r\n\r\nMe: when you put it that way, nope.\r\n\r\nI guess maybe I should look up a more interesting training schedule. I might also need to buy a better sports bra.','Earth Day 5K: I found .11 cents on my run','','inherit','open','open','','219-revision-v1','','','2014-03-17 15:38:50','2014-03-17 22:38:50','',219,'http://carolynemigh.com/219-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(221,2,'2014-03-18 09:49:20','2014-03-18 16:49:20','I actively chose to move to Seattle. At the end of my time in Bulgaria, it was clear that I could move anywhere. The world was open to me and I picked Seattle.\r\n\r\nI picked Seattle for a lot of reasons. Here they are: the Space Needle, a Starbucks on every corner, lighting fast Amazon delivery and the Seahawks, you know, <em>go football</em>.\r\n\r\nOkay, just kidding, I like Seattle just fine for the reasons listed above but truth be told, I was driven by more than those things. I was looking for a city to make home.\r\n\r\nOver the years, it’s become clear to me that I am a city girl. I like busy streets, restaurants that are open late, and the freedom to take public transportation. I like urban living.<!--more--> I don’t need a big house. I need coffee shops, live music, hole-in-the-wall bars and I need to be able to walk to the things I love like the library, a local grocery store, a dry cleaners, a hair salon and places to eat and drink.\r\n\r\nSecond, after 10+ years away from home, I wanted to be closer to my family. I grew up in Walla Walla. In fact, in my family, I am the fifth generation to grow up in Walla Walla. This of course, makes Walla Walla home in a serious way. We have roots in this community and I love that. I love Walla Walla. Seriously, love Walla Walla. But I know myself and I know Walla Walla and the pace of life is just a little slow for me and the town in a little small for me. Seattle is five and a half hours, give or take, from Walla Walla so one can drive home fairly easily.\r\n\r\nThird, Seattle seems like the kind of city that one can make home. My impression of the city, either fairly or unfairly, is that it is less transient than a city like Washington DC, New York or San Francisco. It’s also slightly more affordable than these other big American cities. I am not saying Seattle is cheap but as far as cities go, it’s pretty reasonable.\r\n\r\nFinally, my sister C. lives in Seattle. This is what really sealed the deal for me. At five years younger than me, she’s my baby sister but truth be told, she’s no longer a baby. She’s a grown up and a really cool one at that. She’s also really funny and very smart. I feel lucky that she’s my sister and that I can count her among my good friends.\r\n\r\nSo far, Seattle has been a good fit for me.\r\n\r\nThe often rainy weather hasn’t been too shocking and the mild, mild winter was lovely. There are more coffee shops than I can count. Everyone drinks local beer and Washington wines but there’s also no shortage of craft cocktails to be had. Oh and everyone it seems has their favorite thrift store—cliché, yes? But wonderful nonetheless.\r\n\r\nI am still working on some of these things. Like I don’t have a favorite coffee shop just yet and I am still not a regular at neighborhood coffee shop but it will happen. I know it.','Why did I pick Seattle? ','','publish','open','open','','why-did-i-pick-seattle','','','2014-03-18 09:49:21','2014-03-18 16:49:21','',0,'http://carolynemigh.com/?p=221',0,'post','',3),(222,2,'2014-03-18 09:42:06','2014-03-18 16:42:06','I actively chose to move to Seattle. At the end of my time in Bulgaria, it was clear that I could move anywhere. The world was open to me and I picked Seattle.\r\n\r\nI picked Seattle for a lot of reasons. Here they are: the Space Needle, a Starbucks on every corner, lighting fast Amazon delivery and the Seahawks, you know, <em>go football</em>.\r\n\r\nFirst, it’s become clear to me that I am a city girl. I like busy streets, restaurants that are open late, and the freedom to be able to take public transportation. I like urban living. I don’t need a big house or a garden. I need coffee shops, live music, hole-in-the-wall bars and I need to be able to walk to the things I love like the library, a local grocery store, a dry cleaners, a hair salon and places to eat and drink.\r\n\r\nSecond, after 10+ years away from home, I wanted to be closer to my family. I grew up in Walla Walla. In fact, in my family, I am the fifth generation to grow up in Walla Walla. This of course, makes Walla Walla home in a serious way. We have roots in this community and I love that. I love Walla Walla. Seriously, love Walla Walla. But I know myself and I know Walla Walla and the pace of life is just a little slow for me and the town in a little small for me. Seattle is five and a half hours, give or take, from Walla Walla so one can drive home fairly easily.\r\n\r\nThird, Seattle seems like the kind of city that one can make home. My impression of the city, either fairly or unfairly, is that it is less transient than a city like Washington DC, New York or San Francisco. It’s also slightly more affordable than these other big American cities. I am not saying Seattle is cheap but as far as cities go, it’s pretty reasonable.\r\n\r\nFinally, my sister C. lives in Seattle. This is what really sealed the deal for me. At five years younger than me, she’s my baby sister but truth be told, she’s no longer a baby. She’s a grown up and a really cool one at that. She’s also really funny and very smart. I feel lucky that she’s my sister and that I can count her among my good friends.\r\n\r\nSo far, Seattle has been a good fit for me.\r\n\r\nThe often rainy weather hasn’t been too shocking and the mild, mild winter was lovely. There are more coffee shops than I can count. Everyone drinks local beer and Washington wines but there’s also no shortage of craft cocktails to be had. Oh and everyone it seems has their favorite thrift store—cliché, yes? But wonderful nonetheless.\r\n\r\nI am still working on some of these things. Like I don’t have a favorite coffee shop just yet and I am still not a regular at neighborhood coffee shop but it will happen. I know it.','Why pick Seattle? ','','inherit','open','open','','221-revision-v1','','','2014-03-18 09:42:06','2014-03-18 16:42:06','',221,'http://carolynemigh.com/221-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(223,2,'2014-03-18 09:49:21','2014-03-18 16:49:21','I actively chose to move to Seattle. At the end of my time in Bulgaria, it was clear that I could move anywhere. The world was open to me and I picked Seattle.\r\n\r\nI picked Seattle for a lot of reasons. Here they are: the Space Needle, a Starbucks on every corner, lighting fast Amazon delivery and the Seahawks, you know, <em>go football</em>.\r\n\r\nOkay, just kidding, I like Seattle just fine for the reasons listed above but truth be told, I was driven by more than those things. I was looking for a city to make home.\r\n\r\nOver the years, it’s become clear to me that I am a city girl. I like busy streets, restaurants that are open late, and the freedom to take public transportation. I like urban living.<!--more--> I don’t need a big house. I need coffee shops, live music, hole-in-the-wall bars and I need to be able to walk to the things I love like the library, a local grocery store, a dry cleaners, a hair salon and places to eat and drink.\r\n\r\nSecond, after 10+ years away from home, I wanted to be closer to my family. I grew up in Walla Walla. In fact, in my family, I am the fifth generation to grow up in Walla Walla. This of course, makes Walla Walla home in a serious way. We have roots in this community and I love that. I love Walla Walla. Seriously, love Walla Walla. But I know myself and I know Walla Walla and the pace of life is just a little slow for me and the town in a little small for me. Seattle is five and a half hours, give or take, from Walla Walla so one can drive home fairly easily.\r\n\r\nThird, Seattle seems like the kind of city that one can make home. My impression of the city, either fairly or unfairly, is that it is less transient than a city like Washington DC, New York or San Francisco. It’s also slightly more affordable than these other big American cities. I am not saying Seattle is cheap but as far as cities go, it’s pretty reasonable.\r\n\r\nFinally, my sister C. lives in Seattle. This is what really sealed the deal for me. At five years younger than me, she’s my baby sister but truth be told, she’s no longer a baby. She’s a grown up and a really cool one at that. She’s also really funny and very smart. I feel lucky that she’s my sister and that I can count her among my good friends.\r\n\r\nSo far, Seattle has been a good fit for me.\r\n\r\nThe often rainy weather hasn’t been too shocking and the mild, mild winter was lovely. There are more coffee shops than I can count. Everyone drinks local beer and Washington wines but there’s also no shortage of craft cocktails to be had. Oh and everyone it seems has their favorite thrift store—cliché, yes? But wonderful nonetheless.\r\n\r\nI am still working on some of these things. Like I don’t have a favorite coffee shop just yet and I am still not a regular at neighborhood coffee shop but it will happen. I know it.','Why did I pick Seattle? ','','inherit','open','open','','221-revision-v1','','','2014-03-18 09:49:21','2014-03-18 16:49:21','',221,'http://carolynemigh.com/221-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(225,2,'2014-03-24 22:44:09','2014-03-25 05:44:09','This past weekend was a busy one for me. I had a few life-maintenance tasks that I need to complete in order to fool my parents into believing that I live a well ordered and adult life in Seattle when they come to visit this next weekend.\r\n\r\nI also wanted to read Eleanor and Park. Loved it.\r\n\r\nI went to work on Sunday from 9:15-6pm and ended up walking 5.25 miles while I was there and it wasn’t even a busy day. Thanks pedometer. That’s when I realized I am basically getting paid to sell clothes and get a workout. Five miles of walking without even trying?! That’s pretty good.\r\n\r\nSaturday morning I got dressed up, curled my hair, threw on some lipstick and recruited my sister C. to film me wandering around Ballard in my Bulgarian national costume for a charity event called Faculty Follies at my old high school the American College of Sofia. Now I did more than just wander but I don’t want to ruin the surprise for any of my old students at ACS.\r\n<a title=\"All dressed up by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13407549484/\"><img alt=\"All dressed up\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7157/13407549484_f1dd72fb38_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nHere’s the thing that surprised me: nobody really even blinked at me wandering around town in this elaborate costume. <!--more-->Sure there was a little staring but no one mentioned the fact that I was wearing a fancy dress and filming clips on a cell phone. Not even when I bought two coffees at my local coffee shop did anyone say a thing. I thought for sure that the girl at the counter would say something—but not a word.\r\n\r\nI expected a nod, a cat-call, a comment of some sort, some recognition if even just a look or a raised eyebrow that I was dressed up in a costume on a random Saturday morning in March.\r\n\r\nBut nope. Nothing.  \r\n\r\nWhat is going on in this city?!\r\n\r\nIs Seattle really this nice, this polite and this accepting that no one says a word? Or is there so much weird stuff going on in this city all of the time, that no one blinks and no one has any energy or interest left to do double take anymore? Have we reached a saturation point where no one <i>really</i> looks at anything?\r\n\r\nI realize there’s a flip side to this whole thing and it’s this: maybe I am not as interesting as I’d like to think that I am even in Bulgarian national costume. Alternately, maybe no one wanted to engage me because they thought I was a crazy person. Maybe though, I was just too beautiful in my national costume and I left people speechless. <i>Ha!</i>','Weekend Round-up and my Bulgarian National Costume','','publish','open','open','','weekend-round-up-and-my-bulgarian-national-costume','','','2014-03-25 10:22:13','2014-03-25 17:22:13','',0,'http://carolynemigh.com/?p=225',0,'post','',1),(226,2,'2014-03-24 16:45:26','2014-03-24 23:45:26','This past weekend was a busy one for me. I had a few life-maintenance tasks that I need to complete in order to fool my parents into believing that I live a well ordered and adult life in Seattle when they come to visit this next weekend.\r\n\r\nI also wanted to read Eleanor and Park. Loved it.\r\n\r\nI went to work on Sunday from 9:15-6pm and ended up walking 5.25 miles while I was there and it wasn’t even a busy day. Thanks pedometer. That’s when I realized I am basically getting paid to sell clothes and get a workout. Five miles of walking without even trying?! That’s pretty good.\r\n\r\nSaturday morning I got dressed up, curled my hair, threw on some lipstick and recruited my sister C. to film me wandering around Ballard in my Bulgarian national costume for a charity event called Faculty Follies at my old high school the American College of Sofia. Now I did more than just wander but I don’t want to ruin the surprise for any of my old students at ACS.\r\n\r\nHere’s the thing that surprised me: nobody really even blinked at me wandering around town in this elaborate costume. Sure there was a little staring but no one mentioned the fact that I was wearing a fancy dress and filming clips on a cell phone. Not even when I bought two coffees at my local coffee shop did anyone say a thing. I thought for sure that the girl at the counter would say something—but not a word.\r\n\r\nI expected a nod, a cat-call, a comment of some sort, some recognition if even just a look or a raised eyebrow that I was dressed up in a costume on a random Saturday morning in March.\r\n\r\nBut nope. Nothing.  \r\n\r\nWhat is going on in this city?!\r\n\r\nIs Seattle really this nice, this polite and this accepting that no one says a word? Or is there so much weird stuff going on in this city all of the time, that no one blinks and no one has any energy or interest left to do double take anymore? Have we reached a saturation point where no one <i>really</i> looks at anything?\r\n\r\nI realize there’s a flip side to this whole thing and it’s this: maybe I am not as interesting as I’d like to think that I am even in Bulgarian national costume. Alternately, maybe no one wanted to engage me because they thought I was a crazy person. 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That’s pretty good.\r\n\r\nSaturday morning I got dressed up, curled my hair, threw on some lipstick and recruited my sister C. to film me wandering around Ballard in my Bulgarian national costume for a charity event called Faculty Follies at my old high school the American College of Sofia. Now I did more than just wander but I don’t want to ruin the surprise for any of my old students at ACS.\r\n<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13407549484/\" title=\"All dressed up by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7157/13407549484_f1dd72fb38_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"All dressed up\"></a>\r\nHere’s the thing that surprised me: nobody really even blinked at me wandering around town in this elaborate costume. Sure there was a little staring but no one mentioned the fact that I was wearing a fancy dress and filming clips on a cell phone. Not even when I bought two coffees at my local coffee shop did anyone say a thing. I thought for sure that the girl at the counter would say something—but not a word.\r\n\r\nI expected a nod, a cat-call, a comment of some sort, some recognition if even just a look or a raised eyebrow that I was dressed up in a costume on a random Saturday morning in March.\r\n\r\nBut nope. Nothing.  \r\n\r\nWhat is going on in this city?!\r\n\r\nIs Seattle really this nice, this polite and this accepting that no one says a word? Or is there so much weird stuff going on in this city all of the time, that no one blinks and no one has any energy or interest left to do double take anymore? Have we reached a saturation point where no one <i>really</i> looks at anything?\r\n\r\nI realize there’s a flip side to this whole thing and it’s this: maybe I am not as interesting as I’d like to think that I am even in Bulgarian national costume. Alternately, maybe no one wanted to engage me because they thought I was a crazy person. 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That’s pretty good.\r\n\r\nSaturday morning I got dressed up, curled my hair, threw on some lipstick and recruited my sister C. to film me wandering around Ballard in my Bulgarian national costume for a charity event called Faculty Follies at my old high school the American College of Sofia. Now I did more than just wander but I don’t want to ruin the surprise for any of my old students at ACS.\r\n<a title=\"All dressed up by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13407549484/\"><img alt=\"All dressed up\" src=\"http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7157/13407549484_f1dd72fb38_z.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nHere’s the thing that surprised me: nobody really even blinked at me wandering around town in this elaborate costume. <!--more-->Sure there was a little staring but no one mentioned the fact that I was wearing a fancy dress and filming clips on a cell phone. Not even when I bought two coffees at my local coffee shop did anyone say a thing. I thought for sure that the girl at the counter would say something—but not a word.\r\n\r\nI expected a nod, a cat-call, a comment of some sort, some recognition if even just a look or a raised eyebrow that I was dressed up in a costume on a random Saturday morning in March.\r\n\r\nBut nope. Nothing.  \r\n\r\nWhat is going on in this city?!\r\n\r\nIs Seattle really this nice, this polite and this accepting that no one says a word? Or is there so much weird stuff going on in this city all of the time, that no one blinks and no one has any energy or interest left to do double take anymore? Have we reached a saturation point where no one <i>really</i> looks at anything?\r\n\r\nI realize there’s a flip side to this whole thing and it’s this: maybe I am not as interesting as I’d like to think that I am even in Bulgarian national costume. Alternately, maybe no one wanted to engage me because they thought I was a crazy person. Maybe though, I was just too beautiful in my national costume and I left people speechless. <i>Ha!</i>','Weekend Round-up and my Bulgarian National Costume','','inherit','open','open','','225-revision-v1','','','2014-03-25 09:44:09','2014-03-25 16:44:09','',225,'http://carolynemigh.com/225-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(229,2,'2014-03-25 10:44:12','2014-03-25 17:44:12','Tonight at the downtown public library Dinaw Mengestu is going to be giving a talk and I am looking forward to it. I haven\'t read his newest book <i>All Our Names </i>yet, but I am looking forward to it. Dinaw Mengestu writes such lively prose so I am excited to hear him speak. I hope that he is as engaging in person as he is on the page.\r\n\r\nI\'ve found myself devouring books on the immigrant experience recently. I think in large part it has to do with my interest in issues related to living in a foreign space where one is an outsider because she doesn\'t speak the language fluently, isn\'t familiar with the history or politics and doesn\'t have a shared culture or sense of humor.\r\n\r\nI\'ve returned home after five years abroad and now my reading list is full of books about life in America. I steal many of my suggestions from Petya Grady who is blogging at <a title=\"The Migrant Book Club\" href=\"http://www.themigrantbookclub.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The Migrant Book Club</a> but I\'ve been building my own list browsing at bookstores and reading widely print and new media book reviews.\r\n\r\nSo what\'s on my list? Off the top of my head:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart</li>\r\n	<li>Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A memoir of Food and Longing by Anya Von Bremzen</li>\r\n	<li>Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie</li>\r\n	<li>Every Day is for the Thief by Teju Cole</li>\r\n	<li>The UnAmericans by Molly Antopol</li>\r\n	<li>You are One of Them by Elliott Holt</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nWhat else should I be reading?','Seattle Public Library, Dinaw Mengestu & Books on the Immigrant Experience','','publish','open','open','','seattle-public-library-dinaw-mengestu-books-on-the-immigrant-experience','','','2014-03-30 21:27:12','2014-03-31 04:27:12','',0,'http://carolynemigh.com/?p=229',0,'post','',0),(230,2,'2014-03-25 10:21:50','2014-03-25 17:21:50','Tonight at the downtown public library Dinaw Mengestu is going to be giving a talk and I am looking forward to it. I haven\'t read his newest book <i>All Our Names </i>yet, but I am looking forward to it. Dinaw Mengestu writes such lively prose so I am excited to hear him speak. I hope that he is as engaging in person as he is on the page.\r\n\r\nI\'ve found myself devouring books on the immigrant experience recently. I think in large part it has to do with my interest in issues related to living in a foreign space where one is an outsider because she doesn\'t speak the language flunetly, isn\'t familiar with the history or politics and doesn\'t have a shared culture or sense of humor.\r\n\r\nI\'ve returned home after five years abroad and now my reading list is full of books about life in America. I steal many of my suggestions from Petya Grady who is blogging at <a title=\"The Migrant Book Club\" href=\"http://www.themigrantbookclub.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The Migrant Book Club</a> but I\'ve been building my own list browsing at bookstores and reading widely print and new media book reviews.\r\n\r\nWhat\'s on my list?','Seattle Public Libary, Dinaw Mengestu & Books on the Immigrant Experience','','inherit','open','open','','229-revision-v1','','','2014-03-25 10:21:50','2014-03-25 17:21:50','',229,'http://carolynemigh.com/229-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(231,2,'2014-03-25 10:44:12','2014-03-25 17:44:12','Tonight at the downtown public library Dinaw Mengestu is going to be giving a talk and I am looking forward to it. I haven\'t read his newest book <i>All Our Names </i>yet, but I am looking forward to it. Dinaw Mengestu writes such lively prose so I am excited to hear him speak. I hope that he is as engaging in person as he is on the page.\r\n\r\nI\'ve found myself devouring books on the immigrant experience recently. I think in large part it has to do with my interest in issues related to living in a foreign space where one is an outsider because she doesn\'t speak the language flunetly, isn\'t familiar with the history or politics and doesn\'t have a shared culture or sense of humor.\r\n\r\nI\'ve returned home after five years abroad and now my reading list is full of books about life in America. I steal many of my suggestions from Petya Grady who is blogging at <a title=\"The Migrant Book Club\" href=\"http://www.themigrantbookclub.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The Migrant Book Club</a> but I\'ve been building my own list browsing at bookstores and reading widely print and new media book reviews.\r\n\r\nSo what\'s on my list? Off the top of my head:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>LIttle Failure by Gary Shteyngart</li>\r\n	<li>Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A memoir of Food and Longing by Anya Von Bremzen</li>\r\n	<li>Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie</li>\r\n	<li>Every Day is for the Thief by Teju Cole</li>\r\n	<li>The UnAmericans by Molly Antopol</li>\r\n	<li>You are One of Them by Elliott Holt</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nWhat else should I be reading?','Seattle Public Libary, Dinaw Mengestu & Books on the Immigrant Experience','','inherit','open','open','','229-revision-v1','','','2014-03-25 10:44:12','2014-03-25 17:44:12','',229,'http://carolynemigh.com/229-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(251,2,'2014-04-09 16:00:42','2014-04-09 23:00:42','I’ve been pulled in a lot of different directions recently. I am working two jobs right now and juggling lots of other things as well. I’ve been busy. Good busy but busy nonetheless.\r\n\r\nMy parents came to visit two weekends ago. It was a whirlwind of a trip. We mostly stuck around Ballard hitting up Chuck’s Hop Shop, the Walrus and the Carpenter, Lockspot Café, Cafe Besalu, El Chupacabra and in an attempt to balance out the eating we engaged in a little culture too with a visit to the Seattle Art Museum and the Miro exhibit. To balance all of this out, last weekend I worked both Saturday and Sunday.\r\n\r\nDon’t worry though. It hasn’t been all work and no play. I went and saw a show, Small Black, with friends on Capitol Hill in this space below the bar Neumos called Barboza. We danced out hearts out.\r\n\r\nThis week and last we’ve seen some of the most beautiful weather in recent memory but I’ve had things to do inside—life maintenance thing. Luckily, we’ve also seen our fair share of rain so then I don’t feel so bad.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI like being busy. I like having things to do. This said, all of this being busy and doing fun things has cut into my work-out time.\r\n\r\nI’ve been doing a pretty questionable job training for an upcoming 5k. See above. There’s the issue of time and rain. Oh and motivation. It turns out it’s awfully difficult to convince yourself to go for a run after working for the last nine days in a row in the drizzling rain. On top of this, my training plan as basically been as follows:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>0-2 days a week go to the gym and do 30 minutes on the elliptical.</li>\r\n	<li>2-4 days a week of convincing myself that I am walking plenty between my commuting and my part-tiem job.</li>\r\n	<li>1-2 days a week get dressed to run, find ipod, locate house key and go for said run. Feel a little guilty about not working out as much as I think I should so I decide to run a 5k and time myself to see if I am any faster than the previous week. At the end of the runt, I find that I am faster than last time and then I drink a beer.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nI am pretty sure that none of this constitutes an approved 5k training program but that’s life. And let’s be honest, a beer after 3.5 miles is pretty wonderful. I’m not going to be training for a half marathon using this plan but I that’s okay with me.\r\n\r\nThe hard part is, come the end of the day, I’m tired and a list of to-dos that’s not really getting any shorter. But I can’t beat myself about this because I’m busy and I’m doing the best that I can do. I don’t feel like making dinner so I eat salads.  I don’t feel like writing a clever blog post so I read books instead.\r\n\r\nThen I go to bed. For real, as soon as I am in bed, I’m asleep. It’s wonderful.','The ins and outs of my week','','publish','open','open','','the-ins-and-outs-of-my-week','','','2014-04-09 16:00:42','2014-04-09 23:00:42','',0,'http://carolynemigh.com/?p=251',0,'post','',0),(233,2,'2014-03-27 09:26:38','2014-03-27 16:26:38','I don\'t know any of the bottles of wine at the grocery store anymore. Granted, I also haven\'t lived in the States for the last five years. So I go to buy wine and stand in the aisle and think: what about this one? or this one? maybe this one? I buy a bottle or two, try it and think yep that was good or nope, didn\'t love it.\r\n\r\nOver the holidays, my sister ended up buying two cases of wine from Three Rivers Winery--one white and one red which we then split. This wine is good and we got it for a great price. Needless to say this mixed case of wine while delightful hasn\'t helped me identify three or four go-to grocery store bottles of red wine.\r\n\r\nSo my hunt for the best $8-15 bottles continues.<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Wine wisdom and NPR\" href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/02/07/272515201/wine-wisdom-with-a-wink-a-slackers-guide-to-selecting-vino\" target=\"_blank\">This piece from NPR is cute and a little irreverent</a>. The recommendations boil down to this: look for any French bottle from Cotes du Rhone, cabernet sauvignon is a sure bet for good cheap wine as the grapes are easy to grow, don\'t buy pinot noir cheap as this is a finicky grape and as such a good bottle costs more.\r\n\r\nIf your\'e into Top 10 lists, like I am, you\'ll get sucked into this wine blog--<a title=\"Reverse wine snob\" href=\"http://www.reversewinesnob.com\" target=\"_blank\">the Reverse Wine Snob</a>. All of the wines found on these lists are under $20. The site is a little frantic in terms of the layout and the endless references to wine sponsors but the reviews make it worth your time.  I\'m loving this list: <a title=\"10 Red Wines under $20\" href=\"http://www.reversewinesnob.com/2014/01/top-10-red-wines-under-20-dollars.html\" target=\"_blank\">10 Red Wines under $20--2014 Edition </a>as I know that I\'ve seen many of these wines at my local grocery store. The <a href=\"http://www.reversewinesnob.com/2013/10/gundlach-bundschu-mountain-cuvee.html\" data-ls-seen=\"1\">Gundlach Bundschu Mountain Cuvée 2010</a> and the <a title=\"Punto y Coma Garnacha 2009 - The Calatayud Strikes Again!\" href=\"http://www.reversewinesnob.com/2013/06/punto-y-coma-garnacha-2009.html\" data-ls-seen=\"1\">Punto y Coma Garnacha 2009</a> are both high on my to-find and to-drink list!\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Daily Picks from the Wine Spectator \" href=\"http://www.winespectator.com/dailypicks\" target=\"_blank\">The Wine Spectator </a>has a fun daily list feature and I was pleasantly surprised to see recommendations for local-ish wineries Columbia Crest Cabernet Sauvignon Columbia Valley Grand Estates 2011 and Chateau Ste Michelle-Dr. Loosen Riesling Saint M 2012\r\n\r\nThere\'s this visually beautiful piece from the Pour at the NYT for <a title=\"The Pour and 20 Winter Wines for $20\" href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/01/08/dining/20140106-POUR.html\" target=\"_blank\">20 Winter Wines for $20</a>. Oh and the descriptions of the various wines is also pleasing.\r\n\r\nOh and in case you missed this, there\'s a new wine guide out: <a title=\"Scratch and Sniff Wine Guide\" href=\"http://www.amazon.com/dp/0544005031/?tag=mh0b-20&amp;hvadid=3525517277&amp;ref=pd_sl_7nah8wn3jh_ee\" target=\"_blank\">The Essential Scratch and Sniff Guide to Becoming a Wine Expert: Take a Whiff of That</a>. The title is kind of a mouthful but the idea is pretty clever.\r\n\r\nI should probably also find a local wine shop in the greater Ballard or a grocery store that does regular tastings. Then I could really give this wine-hunt a serious go! Because ultimately, you do have to taste the wine in order to determine if you like it or not.\r\n\r\nAny recommendations for bottles or for neighborhood wine shops?','Hunting for a go-to Bottle of Wine und $15 ','','publish','open','open','','round-up-of-the-internets','','','2014-03-27 09:26:38','2014-03-27 16:26:38','',0,'http://carolynemigh.com/?p=233',0,'post','',4),(234,2,'2014-03-25 15:19:05','2014-03-25 22:19:05','Tonight at the downtown public library Dinaw Mengestu is going to be giving a talk and I am looking forward to it. I haven\'t read his newest book <i>All Our Names </i>yet, but I am looking forward to it. Dinaw Mengestu writes such lively prose so I am excited to hear him speak. I hope that he is as engaging in person as he is on the page.\r\n\r\nI\'ve found myself devouring books on the immigrant experience recently. I think in large part it has to do with my interest in issues related to living in a foreign space where one is an outsider because she doesn\'t speak the language fluently, isn\'t familiar with the history or politics and doesn\'t have a shared culture or sense of humor.\r\n\r\nI\'ve returned home after five years abroad and now my reading list is full of books about life in America. I steal many of my suggestions from Petya Grady who is blogging at <a title=\"The Migrant Book Club\" href=\"http://www.themigrantbookclub.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The Migrant Book Club</a> but I\'ve been building my own list browsing at bookstores and reading widely print and new media book reviews.\r\n\r\nSo what\'s on my list? Off the top of my head:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart</li>\r\n	<li>Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A memoir of Food and Longing by Anya Von Bremzen</li>\r\n	<li>Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie</li>\r\n	<li>Every Day is for the Thief by Teju Cole</li>\r\n	<li>The UnAmericans by Molly Antopol</li>\r\n	<li>You are One of Them by Elliott Holt</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nWhat else should I be reading?','Seattle Public Libary, Dinaw Mengestu & Books on the Immigrant Experience','','inherit','open','open','','229-revision-v1','','','2014-03-25 15:19:05','2014-03-25 22:19:05','',229,'http://carolynemigh.com/229-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(235,2,'2014-03-25 16:40:12','2014-03-25 23:40:12','I don\'t know any of the bottles of wine at the grocery store anymore. Granted, I also haven\'t lived in the States for the last five years. So I go to buy wine and stand in the aisle and think: what about this one? or this one? maybe this one? I buy a bottle or two, try it and think yep that was good or nope, didn\'t love it.\r\n\r\nOver the holidays, my sister ended up buying two cases of wine from Three Rivers Winery--one white and one red which we then split. This wine is good and we got it for a great price. Needless to say this mixed case of wine while delightful hasn\'t helped me identify three or four go-to grocery store bottles of red wine.\r\n\r\nSo my hunt for the best $8-15 bottles continues.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Wine wisdom and NPR\" href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/02/07/272515201/wine-wisdom-with-a-wink-a-slackers-guide-to-selecting-vino\" target=\"_blank\">This piece from NPR is cute and a little irreverent</a>. The recommendations boil down to this: look for any French bottle from Cotes du Rhone, cabernet sauvignon is a sure bet for good cheap wine as the grapes are easy to grow, don\'t buy pinot noir cheap as this is a finicky grape and as such a good bottle costs more.\r\n\r\nIf your\'e into Top 10 lists, like I am, you\'ll get sucked into this wine blog--<a title=\"Reverse wine snob\" href=\"http://www.reversewinesnob.com\" target=\"_blank\">the Reverse Wine Snob</a>. All of the wines found on these lists are under $20. The site is a litte frantic in terms of the layout and the endless references to wine sponsors but the reviews make it worth your time.  I\'m loving this list: <a title=\"10 Red Wines under $20\" href=\"http://www.reversewinesnob.com/2014/01/top-10-red-wines-under-20-dollars.html\" target=\"_blank\">10 Red Wines under $20--2014 Edition </a>as I know that I\'ve seen many of these wines at my local grocery store. The <a href=\"http://www.reversewinesnob.com/2013/10/gundlach-bundschu-mountain-cuvee.html\" data-ls-seen=\"1\">Gundlach Bundschu Mountain Cuvée 2010</a> and the <a title=\"Punto y Coma Garnacha 2009 - The Calatayud Strikes Again!\" href=\"http://www.reversewinesnob.com/2013/06/punto-y-coma-garnacha-2009.html\" data-ls-seen=\"1\">Punto y Coma Garnacha 2009</a> are both high on my to-find and to-drink list!\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Daily Picks from the Wine Spectator \" href=\"http://www.winespectator.com/dailypicks\" target=\"_blank\">The Wine Spectator </a>has a fun daily list feature and I was pleasently surprised to see recomendations for local-ish wineries Columbia Crest Cabernet Sauvignon Columbia Valley Grand Estates 2011 and Chateau Ste Michelle-Dr. Loosen Riesling Saint M 2012\r\n\r\nThere\'s this visually beautiful piece from the Pour at the NYT for <a title=\"The Pour and 20 Winter Wines for $20\" href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/01/08/dining/20140106-POUR.html\" target=\"_blank\">20 Winter Wines for $20</a>.\r\n\r\nOh and in case you missed this, there\'s a new wine guide out: <a title=\"Scratch and Sniff Wine Guide\" href=\"http://www.amazon.com/dp/0544005031/?tag=mh0b-20&amp;hvadid=3525517277&amp;ref=pd_sl_7nah8wn3jh_ee\" target=\"_blank\">The Essential Scratch and Sniff Guide to Becoming a Wine Expert: Take a Wiff of That</a>. The title is kind of a mouthful but the idea is pretty clever.\r\n\r\nIt turns out that there are a lot of things to re-learn now that I am State-side again.','Round-up of the internets','','inherit','open','open','','233-revision-v1','','','2014-03-25 16:40:12','2014-03-25 23:40:12','',233,'http://carolynemigh.com/233-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(236,2,'2014-03-25 16:41:54','2014-03-25 23:41:54','I don\'t know any of the bottles of wine at the grocery store anymore. Granted, I also haven\'t lived in the States for the last five years. So I go to buy wine and stand in the aisle and think: what about this one? or this one? maybe this one? I buy a bottle or two, try it and think yep that was good or nope, didn\'t love it.\r\n\r\nOver the holidays, my sister ended up buying two cases of wine from Three Rivers Winery--one white and one red which we then split. This wine is good and we got it for a great price. Needless to say this mixed case of wine while delightful hasn\'t helped me identify three or four go-to grocery store bottles of red wine.\r\n\r\nSo my hunt for the best $8-15 bottles continues.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Wine wisdom and NPR\" href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/02/07/272515201/wine-wisdom-with-a-wink-a-slackers-guide-to-selecting-vino\" target=\"_blank\">This piece from NPR is cute and a little irreverent</a>. The recommendations boil down to this: look for any French bottle from Cotes du Rhone, cabernet sauvignon is a sure bet for good cheap wine as the grapes are easy to grow, don\'t buy pinot noir cheap as this is a finicky grape and as such a good bottle costs more.\r\n\r\nIf your\'e into Top 10 lists, like I am, you\'ll get sucked into this wine blog--<a title=\"Reverse wine snob\" href=\"http://www.reversewinesnob.com\" target=\"_blank\">the Reverse Wine Snob</a>. All of the wines found on these lists are under $20. The site is a litte frantic in terms of the layout and the endless references to wine sponsors but the reviews make it worth your time.  I\'m loving this list: <a title=\"10 Red Wines under $20\" href=\"http://www.reversewinesnob.com/2014/01/top-10-red-wines-under-20-dollars.html\" target=\"_blank\">10 Red Wines under $20--2014 Edition </a>as I know that I\'ve seen many of these wines at my local grocery store. The <a href=\"http://www.reversewinesnob.com/2013/10/gundlach-bundschu-mountain-cuvee.html\" data-ls-seen=\"1\">Gundlach Bundschu Mountain Cuvée 2010</a> and the <a title=\"Punto y Coma Garnacha 2009 - The Calatayud Strikes Again!\" href=\"http://www.reversewinesnob.com/2013/06/punto-y-coma-garnacha-2009.html\" data-ls-seen=\"1\">Punto y Coma Garnacha 2009</a> are both high on my to-find and to-drink list!\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Daily Picks from the Wine Spectator \" href=\"http://www.winespectator.com/dailypicks\" target=\"_blank\">The Wine Spectator </a>has a fun daily list feature and I was pleasently surprised to see recomendations for local-ish wineries Columbia Crest Cabernet Sauvignon Columbia Valley Grand Estates 2011 and Chateau Ste Michelle-Dr. Loosen Riesling Saint M 2012\r\n\r\nThere\'s this visually beautiful piece from the Pour at the NYT for <a title=\"The Pour and 20 Winter Wines for $20\" href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/01/08/dining/20140106-POUR.html\" target=\"_blank\">20 Winter Wines for $20</a>.\r\n\r\nOh and in case you missed this, there\'s a new wine guide out: <a title=\"Scratch and Sniff Wine Guide\" href=\"http://www.amazon.com/dp/0544005031/?tag=mh0b-20&amp;hvadid=3525517277&amp;ref=pd_sl_7nah8wn3jh_ee\" target=\"_blank\">The Essential Scratch and Sniff Guide to Becoming a Wine Expert: Take a Wiff of That</a>. The title is kind of a mouthful but the idea is pretty clever.\r\n\r\nIt turns out that there are a lot of things to re-learn now that I am State-side again. Now I need to get out and look for this wine so that I can in on the sipping already!','Hunting for a go-to Bottle of Wine und $15 ','','inherit','open','open','','233-revision-v1','','','2014-03-25 16:41:54','2014-03-25 23:41:54','',233,'http://carolynemigh.com/233-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(237,2,'2014-03-31 20:17:08','2014-04-01 03:17:08','So there\'s this thing, the Seattle-Freeze, which I am not really sure is a thing at all but which everyone talks about. The idea is that for newcomers to the city it\'s hard to make friends in Seattle.\r\n\r\nNow I hate to break it to you, but it\'s hard to make friends in <em>any</em> city after college so I am not really sure what makes Seattle different in this respect. Like somehow, it\'s really, really hard to make friends here? Unclear.\r\n\r\nBut it\'s enough of a thing (and Seattle is enough of a nerdy-tech place), that there\'s a <a title=\"The Seattle Freeze\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Freeze\" target=\"_blank\">wikipedia entry</a> for the Seattle Freeze--you know because the Seattle Freeze clearly needs its own wikipedia page. And Seattle public radio, <a title=\"KPLU and the Seattle Freeze\" href=\"http://www.kpluwonders.org/content/why-seattle-freeze-so-hard-melt\" target=\"_blank\">KPLU also has a piece on the Freeze</a> but it\'s more light hearted and inquisitive than anything else.\r\n\r\nHere\'s the deal, I don\'t want to believe in the Seattle Freeze. I think it\'s just a state of mind. Then again, I\'ll also talk to just about anyboy and it\'s in my best interest <em>not</em> to buy into the Seattle Freeze.\r\n\r\nAll of this said, what\'s a nearly friend-less girl like me to do? Well, I am working on making friends in Seattle. Now to be clear, I\'m not exactly friend-less.\r\n\r\nOne of the reasons I ended up here is because my sister C. calls Seattle home. So step one to making friends in Seattle has been this: steal my sister\'s. I\'ve wormed my way into book club, I\'ve been invited to celebrate birthday parties and we\'ve consumed lots of good, bad and questionable alcohol together. So far, so good. I\'m well on my way to stealing all of her friends. Lucky for me, she has good taste in friends.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI also have a few really good friends from high school who live in the area. We\'ve been reconnecting and having a lot of fun doing it but their lives are different than mine. They are married and have children. Really cute, smart and funny kids but kids nonetheless. It means making plans further out and negotiating more complicated schedules. I am glad to do it and I am happy to see that our friendships are strong enough and flexiable enough to adjust to these changes. But,<em> gasp</em>, we aren\'t as available as we were at 16 to just hang out.\r\n\r\nSo I\'ve been busy putting myself out there in an attempt to make new friends.\r\n\r\nThat\'s the thing about making friends you have to put yourself out there. You can\'t wait for others to invite you along. You have to make plans and you have to initiate hangouts. You have to be proactive. You have to claw your way in but you also have to be willing to go out.\r\n\r\nLast week, for example, I attended the monthly book club meeting hosted at <a title=\"The Secret Garden Bookshop in Ballard\" href=\"http://secretgardenbooks.com/\" target=\"_blank\">the local bookstore Secret Garden Bookshop</a> in Ballard. They have a standing meeting on the third Thursday of the month. I was a little nervous to go for the first time, but once there, everyone was so nice. It was little hard to get a word in edgewise but I think that\'s one of the signs of a good book club. Now I didn\'t leave the meeting with a new best friend but I did leave with a sense that the men and women who attend are interesting lively people and that I\'ll be back next month.\r\n\r\nI\'ve also been busy getting to know a number of my neighbors in my apartment building. The thing that has been hard about this is just timing issues. We always have a good time when we see each other, but our schedules don\'t always match up. This seems to be a modern problem--not just a problem when it comes to making friends. Anyhow, we\'re going to a show on Friday night together so that should be great fun.\r\n\r\nIn my mind, that\'s how this making friends thing works--little by little.','The Seattle Freeze & Making Friends ','','publish','open','open','','the-seattle-freeze-making-friends','','','2014-03-31 20:17:08','2014-04-01 03:17:08','',0,'http://carolynemigh.com/?p=237',0,'post','',4),(238,2,'2014-03-25 16:57:30','2014-03-25 23:57:30','So there\'s this thing, the Seattle-Freeze, which I am not really sure is a thing at all but which everyone talks about. The idea is that for newcomers to the city it\'s hard to make friends in Seattle. Now I hate to break it to you, but it\'s hard to make friends in <em>any</em> city after college so I am not really sure what makes Seattle different in this respect. LIke somehow, it\'s really, really hard to make friends? Unclear.\r\n\r\nBut it\'s enough of a thing (and Seattle is enough of a tech place), that there\'s even a <a title=\"The Seattle Freeze\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Freeze\" target=\"_blank\">wikipedia entry</a>--you know because the Seattle Freeze clearly needs its own wikipedia page.\r\n\r\nThe Seattle local public radio, <a title=\"KPLU and the Seattle Freeze\" href=\"http://www.kpluwonders.org/content/why-seattle-freeze-so-hard-melt\" target=\"_blank\">KPLU also has a piece on the Freeze</a>.\r\n\r\nSo what\'s a girl like me to do?\r\n\r\nI am working on making friends in Seattle. I\'m well on my way to stealing all of my sister\'s friends. I have a few really good friends from high school who live in the area and I am busy putting myself out there.\r\n\r\nThat\'s the thing about making friends you have to put yourself out there. You can\'t wait for others to invite you along. You have to make plans. You have to initiate hangouts. You have to be proactive. You have to claw your way in.','The Seattle Freeze and Making Friends in Ballard ','','inherit','open','open','','237-revision-v1','','','2014-03-25 16:57:30','2014-03-25 23:57:30','',237,'http://carolynemigh.com/237-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(239,2,'2014-03-26 11:04:02','2014-03-26 18:04:02','Dinaw Mengestu\'s reading at the Seattle Public Library last night was excellent. I did feel a little bad for him as the lecture hall was only half full but it was raining pretty steadily yesterday evening. I figured that the hall would be packed as it was part of the free lecture series and Mengestu\'s first two books are so good. Sure he might not be a living room name but I was sure that people would be lined up to see him.\r\n\r\nI rounded up my sister and our friend B. to go with me. The lecture started at 7pm and I met them for drinks about 5:30 at Purple Cafe and Wine Bar at 4th and University. It\'s a big space but when I got there at 5:25 or so all of the tables were taken or reserved. So I ended up at the upstairs bar. This turned out to be just perfect because I was able to chat with the bartender about wine and sample some wines I\'ve never had before from Spain, Portugal and Italy. It was an especially happy hour for me!\r\n\r\nThe reading was co-hosted by the library and by a local bookstore so I had an opportunity to buy Mengestu\'s new book, <a title=\"Goodreads and All Our Names\" href=\"http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18050096-all-our-names\" target=\"_blank\">All Our Names</a>, beforehand. I\'d read a little bit about the new book before the lecture but I hadn\'t read the book. It seems like <a title=\"NYT on All Our Names\" href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/23/books/review/all-our-names-by-dinaw-mengestu.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">this NYT review </a>gets right to the heart of the matter: cultural exchange and the pieces of ourselves that we trade in or bargain away to make this happen and the violence of this loss (or of this exchange) whether physical or internalized.\r\n\r\nI did not take notes at the reading so what I am writing now is from memory. There were three things that stood out to me during the reading and Q&amp;A. First, is Mengestu\'s resistance to being called or a labeled an immigrant writer. Second, is the complicated role of language in the excerpt that he read from. Third, is the issue of privilege and being an expat versus an immigrant.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nIn my post yesterday, I said that I\'d found myself <a title=\"Reading list: books on the immigrant experience\" href=\"http://carolynemigh.com/seattle-public-libary-dinaw-mengestu-books-on-the-immigrant-experience/\" target=\"_blank\">devouring books on the immigrant experience</a> and I counted Mengestu\'s works among these books. Would I have called him an immigrant author yesterday? Maybe, maybe not. His biography makes it pretty clear that his is a life lived in America--he grew up here and his writing is full of cultural and linguistic markers that mark him as American.\r\n\r\nBut at the reading, Mengestu pushed against the label: immigrant writer. He resisted this saying that we are all immigrant writers, well, aside from Sherman Alexie. But the point was this, by labeling others as immigrant writers we, the label-ers, are solidifying our position as dominate, our narrative as mainstream and the experiences of the immigrant writers as other, as marginalized, as exotic. Of course to add to this, there is no single immigrant experience which makes the label rather meaningless anyway.\r\n\r\nI\'ve been interested in the \"immigrant experience\" in literature as a way to make sense of my own experience living abroad for five years in Bulgaria and the complicated issue of return. I am at home but in many ways this place is now foreign to me. At times, it\'s messy and lonely to be at home but not to feel at home.\r\n\r\nAnother idea that Mengestu addressed in his reading was that of language. Mengestu read from a chapter in which Isaac, the exchange student, lets Helen, the social worker, speak for him. She asks about stamps at the post office for him and orders his meal for him in a diner but when it comes to standing up for himself in English, he does this. This is a complicated issue. Is Helen actually helping Isaac by speaking for him? Why does he let her do this? What kind of dependency do we form by letting others speak for us?\r\n\r\nI know firsthand how much easier it is to let someone else order your meal or your beer in a foreign country but you also hand a little piece of yourself over to them. You lose a little bit of agency--the waiter stops looking at you and asking you questions. It becomes infantilizing. Does she want another beer? The waiter will ask your friend/colleague/boyfriend as you sit there being discussed in the third person.\r\n\r\nFinally there is the question of what makes one an expat versus an immigrant. In the Q&amp;A, I asked Mengestu about this issue of language and he told me that he\'d written All Our Names while living in for five years in France and that he\'d found himself living in a language without speaking it. (I thought, me too! I know what that feels like.) The he said that those of us with American passports are always expats abroad and never immigrants and I think that\'s true. As Americans abroad, we always have the ability to return and outside of the States given the myth of America no one imagines that we are immigrants. This is a privileged place to find one\'s self.\r\n\r\nThe final question of the night was this: what are you currently reading? The answer: <a title=\"Everyday is for the Thief &amp; Goodreads\" href=\"http://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&amp;query=Every+Day+is+for+the+Thief+\" target=\"_blank\">Every Day is for the Thief </a>by Teju Cole. Mengestu also mentioned that he is a re-reader and referenced <a title=\"Goodreads and Housekeeping\" href=\"http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11741.Housekeeping\" target=\"_blank\">Housekeeping </a>by Marilynne Summers Robinson and this book <a title=\"Goodreads and Season of Migration to the North\" href=\"http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/669780.Season_of_Migration_to_the_North?from_search=true\" target=\"_blank\">Season of Migration to the North</a> by Tayeb Salih.\r\n\r\nIt probably goes without saying, but I am really looking forward to reading All Our Names!','Dinaw Mengestu on Language and Labels ','','publish','open','open','','dinaw-mengestu-on-language-and-labels','','\nhttp://carolynemigh.com/seattle-public-libary-dinaw-mengestu-books-on-the-immigrant-experience/','2014-03-26 11:04:02','2014-03-26 18:04:02','',0,'http://carolynemigh.com/?p=239',0,'post','',0),(240,2,'2014-03-26 09:37:50','2014-03-26 16:37:50','Dinaw Mengestu\'s reading at the Seattle Public Library last night was excellent. I did feel a little bad for him as the lecture hall was only half full but it was raining pretty steadily yesterday evening. I figured that the hall would be packed as it was part of the free lecture series and Mengestu\'s first two books are so good. Sure he might not be a living room name but I was sure that people would be lined up to see him.\r\n\r\nI rounded up my sister and our friend B. to go with me. The lecture started at 7pm and I met them for drinks about 5:30 at Purple Cafe and Wine Bar at 4th and University. It\'s a big space but when I got there at 5:25 or so all of the tables were taken or reserved. So I ended up at the upstairs bar. This turned out to be just perfect because I was able to chat with the bartender about wine and sample some wines I\'ve never had before from Spain, Portugal and Italy. It was an especially happy hour for me!\r\n\r\nThe reading was co-hosted by the library and by a local bookstore so I had an opportunity to buy Mengestu\'s new book, <a title=\"Goodreads and All Our Names\" href=\"http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18050096-all-our-names\" target=\"_blank\">All Our Names</a>, beforehand. I\'d read a little bit about the new book before the lecture but I hadn\'t read the book. It seems like <a title=\"NYT on All Our Names\" href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/23/books/review/all-our-names-by-dinaw-mengestu.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">this NYT review </a>gets right to the heart of the matter: cultural exchange and the pieces of ourselves that we trade in or bargin away to make this happen and the violence of this loss (or of this exchange) whether physical or internalized.\r\n\r\nI did not take notes at the reading so what I am writing about now is from memory. There were three things that stood out to me during the reading and Q&amp;A. First, is Mengestu\'s resistance to being called or a labeled an immigrant writer. Second, is the complicated role of language in the excerpt that he read from. Third, is the issue of privilage and being an expat versus an immigrant.\r\n\r\nIn my post yesterday, I said that I\'d found myself <a title=\"Reading list: books on the immigrant experience\" href=\"http://carolynemigh.com/seattle-public-libary-dinaw-mengestu-books-on-the-immigrant-experience/\" target=\"_blank\">devouring books on the immigrant experience</a> and I counted Mengestu\'s works among these books. Would I have called him an immigrant author yesterday? Maybe, maybe not. His biography makes it pretty clear that his is a life lived in America--he grew up here and his writing is full of cultural and linguistic markers that mark him as American.\r\n\r\nBut at the reading, Mengestu pushed against the label: immigrant writer. He resisted this saying that we are all immigrant writers, well, aside from Sherman Alexie.','Dinaw Mengestu on Language and Labels ','','inherit','open','open','','239-revision-v1','','','2014-03-26 09:37:50','2014-03-26 16:37:50','',239,'http://carolynemigh.com/239-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(241,2,'2014-03-26 11:04:02','2014-03-26 18:04:02','Dinaw Mengestu\'s reading at the Seattle Public Library last night was excellent. I did feel a little bad for him as the lecture hall was only half full but it was raining pretty steadily yesterday evening. I figured that the hall would be packed as it was part of the free lecture series and Mengestu\'s first two books are so good. Sure he might not be a living room name but I was sure that people would be lined up to see him.\r\n\r\nI rounded up my sister and our friend B. to go with me. The lecture started at 7pm and I met them for drinks about 5:30 at Purple Cafe and Wine Bar at 4th and University. It\'s a big space but when I got there at 5:25 or so all of the tables were taken or reserved. So I ended up at the upstairs bar. This turned out to be just perfect because I was able to chat with the bartender about wine and sample some wines I\'ve never had before from Spain, Portugal and Italy. It was an especially happy hour for me!\r\n\r\nThe reading was co-hosted by the library and by a local bookstore so I had an opportunity to buy Mengestu\'s new book, <a title=\"Goodreads and All Our Names\" href=\"http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18050096-all-our-names\" target=\"_blank\">All Our Names</a>, beforehand. I\'d read a little bit about the new book before the lecture but I hadn\'t read the book. It seems like <a title=\"NYT on All Our Names\" href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/23/books/review/all-our-names-by-dinaw-mengestu.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">this NYT review </a>gets right to the heart of the matter: cultural exchange and the pieces of ourselves that we trade in or bargain away to make this happen and the violence of this loss (or of this exchange) whether physical or internalized.\r\n\r\nI did not take notes at the reading so what I am writing now is from memory. There were three things that stood out to me during the reading and Q&amp;A. First, is Mengestu\'s resistance to being called or a labeled an immigrant writer. Second, is the complicated role of language in the excerpt that he read from. Third, is the issue of privilege and being an expat versus an immigrant.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nIn my post yesterday, I said that I\'d found myself <a title=\"Reading list: books on the immigrant experience\" href=\"http://carolynemigh.com/seattle-public-libary-dinaw-mengestu-books-on-the-immigrant-experience/\" target=\"_blank\">devouring books on the immigrant experience</a> and I counted Mengestu\'s works among these books. Would I have called him an immigrant author yesterday? Maybe, maybe not. His biography makes it pretty clear that his is a life lived in America--he grew up here and his writing is full of cultural and linguistic markers that mark him as American.\r\n\r\nBut at the reading, Mengestu pushed against the label: immigrant writer. He resisted this saying that we are all immigrant writers, well, aside from Sherman Alexie. But the point was this, by labeling others as immigrant writers we, the label-ers, are solidifying our position as dominate, our narrative as mainstream and the experiences of the immigrant writers as other, as marginalized, as exotic. Of course to add to this, there is no single immigrant experience which makes the label rather meaningless anyway.\r\n\r\nI\'ve been interested in the \"immigrant experience\" in literature as a way to make sense of my own experience living abroad for five years in Bulgaria and the complicated issue of return. I am at home but in many ways this place is now foreign to me. At times, it\'s messy and lonely to be at home but not to feel at home.\r\n\r\nAnother idea that Mengestu addressed in his reading was that of language. Mengestu read from a chapter in which Isaac, the exchange student, lets Helen, the social worker, speak for him. She asks about stamps at the post office for him and orders his meal for him in a diner but when it comes to standing up for himself in English, he does this. This is a complicated issue. Is Helen actually helping Isaac by speaking for him? Why does he let her do this? What kind of dependency do we form by letting others speak for us?\r\n\r\nI know firsthand how much easier it is to let someone else order your meal or your beer in a foreign country but you also hand a little piece of yourself over to them. You lose a little bit of agency--the waiter stops looking at you and asking you questions. It becomes infantilizing. Does she want another beer? The waiter will ask your friend/colleague/boyfriend as you sit there being discussed in the third person.\r\n\r\nFinally there is the question of what makes one an expat versus an immigrant. In the Q&amp;A, I asked Mengestu about this issue of language and he told me that he\'d written All Our Names while living in for five years in France and that he\'d found himself living in a language without speaking it. (I thought, me too! I know what that feels like.) The he said that those of us with American passports are always expats abroad and never immigrants and I think that\'s true. As Americans abroad, we always have the ability to return and outside of the States given the myth of America no one imagines that we are immigrants. This is a privileged place to find one\'s self.\r\n\r\nThe final question of the night was this: what are you currently reading? The answer: <a title=\"Everyday is for the Thief &amp; Goodreads\" href=\"http://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&amp;query=Every+Day+is+for+the+Thief+\" target=\"_blank\">Every Day is for the Thief </a>by Teju Cole. Mengestu also mentioned that he is a re-reader and referenced <a title=\"Goodreads and Housekeeping\" href=\"http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11741.Housekeeping\" target=\"_blank\">Housekeeping </a>by Marilynne Summers Robinson and this book <a title=\"Goodreads and Season of Migration to the North\" href=\"http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/669780.Season_of_Migration_to_the_North?from_search=true\" target=\"_blank\">Season of Migration to the North</a> by Tayeb Salih.\r\n\r\nIt probably goes without saying, but I am really looking forward to reading All Our Names!','Dinaw Mengestu on Language and Labels ','','inherit','open','open','','239-revision-v1','','','2014-03-26 11:04:02','2014-03-26 18:04:02','',239,'http://carolynemigh.com/239-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(242,2,'2014-03-26 11:26:56','2014-03-26 18:26:56','So there\'s this thing, the Seattle-Freeze, which I am not really sure is a thing at all but which everyone talks about. The idea is that for newcomers to the city it\'s hard to make friends in Seattle. Now I hate to break it to you, but it\'s hard to make friends in <em>any</em> city after college so I am not really sure what makes Seattle different in this respect. Like somehow, it\'s really, really hard to make friends here? Unclear.\r\n\r\nBut it\'s enough of a thing (and Seattle is enough of a tech place), that there\'s a <a title=\"The Seattle Freeze\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Freeze\" target=\"_blank\">wikipedia entry</a> for the Seattle Freeze--you know because the Seattle Freeze clearly needs its own wikipedia page. Seattle local public radio, <a title=\"KPLU and the Seattle Freeze\" href=\"http://www.kpluwonders.org/content/why-seattle-freeze-so-hard-melt\" target=\"_blank\">KPLU also has a piece on the Freeze</a> but it\'s more light hearted and inquisitive than anything else.  \r\n\r\nWhat\'s a (friend-less) girl like me to do? Well, I am working on making friends in Seattle. Now to be clear, I\'m not exactly friend-less.\r\n\r\nOne of the reasons I ended up here is because my sister C. calls Seattle home. So step one to making friends in Seattle has been this: steal my sister\'s. I\'ve wormed my way into book club, I\'ve been invited to celebrate birthday parties and we\'ve consumed lots of good, bad and questionable alcohol together. So far, so good. I\'m well on my way to stealing all of her friends. Lucky for me, she has good taste in friends.\r\n\r\nI also have a few really good friends from high school who live in the area. We\'ve been reconnecting and having a lot of fun doing it but their lives are different than mine. They are married and have children. Really cute, smart and funny kids but kids nonetheless. It means making plans further out and negotiating more complicated schedules. I am glad to do it and I am happy to see that our friendships are strong enough and flexiable enough to adjust to these changes. But,<em> gasp</em>, we aren\'t as available as we were at 16 to just hang out.\r\n\r\nSo I\'ve been busy putting myself out there.\r\n\r\nThat\'s the thing about making friends you have to put yourself out there. You can\'t wait for others to invite you along. You have to make plans. You have to initiate hangouts. You have to be proactive. You have to claw your way in but you also have to be willing to go out.\r\n\r\nLast week, I attended the Secret Garden monthly book club meeting.','The Seattle Freeze & Making Friends ','','inherit','open','open','','237-revision-v1','','','2014-03-26 11:26:56','2014-03-26 18:26:56','',237,'http://carolynemigh.com/237-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(243,2,'2014-03-26 13:13:52','2014-03-26 20:13:52','So there\'s this thing, the Seattle-Freeze, which I am not really sure is a thing at all but which everyone talks about. The idea is that for newcomers to the city it\'s hard to make friends in Seattle.\r\n\r\nNow I hate to break it to you, but it\'s hard to make friends in <em>any</em> city after college so I am not really sure what makes Seattle different in this respect. Like somehow, it\'s really, really hard to make friends here? Unclear.\r\n\r\nBut it\'s enough of a thing (and Seattle is enough of a nerdy-tech place), that there\'s a <a title=\"The Seattle Freeze\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Freeze\" target=\"_blank\">wikipedia entry</a> for the Seattle Freeze--you know because the Seattle Freeze clearly needs its own wikipedia page. And Seattle public radio, <a title=\"KPLU and the Seattle Freeze\" href=\"http://www.kpluwonders.org/content/why-seattle-freeze-so-hard-melt\" target=\"_blank\">KPLU also has a piece on the Freeze</a> but it\'s more light hearted and inquisitive than anything else.  \r\n\r\nHere\'s the deal, I don\'t want to believe in the Seattle Freeze. I think it\'s just a state of mind. Then again, I\'ll also talk to just about anyboy and it\'s in my best interest <em>not</em> to buy into the Seattle Freeze.\r\n\r\nAll of this said, what\'s a nearly friend-less girl like me to do? Well, I am working on making friends in Seattle. Now to be clear, I\'m not exactly friend-less.\r\n\r\nOne of the reasons I ended up here is because my sister C. calls Seattle home. So step one to making friends in Seattle has been this: steal my sister\'s. I\'ve wormed my way into book club, I\'ve been invited to celebrate birthday parties and we\'ve consumed lots of good, bad and questionable alcohol together. So far, so good. I\'m well on my way to stealing all of her friends. Lucky for me, she has good taste in friends.\r\n\r\nI also have a few really good friends from high school who live in the area. We\'ve been reconnecting and having a lot of fun doing it but their lives are different than mine. They are married and have children. Really cute, smart and funny kids but kids nonetheless. It means making plans further out and negotiating more complicated schedules. I am glad to do it and I am happy to see that our friendships are strong enough and flexiable enough to adjust to these changes. But,<em> gasp</em>, we aren\'t as available as we were at 16 to just hang out.\r\n\r\nSo I\'ve been busy putting myself out there in an attempt to make new friends.\r\n\r\nThat\'s the thing about making friends you have to put yourself out there. You can\'t wait for others to invite you along. You have to make plans and you have to initiate hangouts. You have to be proactive. You have to claw your way in but you also have to be willing to go out.\r\n\r\nLast week, for example, I attended the monthly book club meeting hosted at <a title=\"The Secret Garden Bookshop in Ballard\" href=\"http://secretgardenbooks.com/\" target=\"_blank\">the local bookstore Secret Garden Bookshop</a> in Ballard. They have a standing meeting on the third Thursday of the month. I was a little nervous to go for the first time, but once there, everyone was so nice. It was little hard to get a word in edgewise but I think that\'s one of the signs of a good book club. Now I didn\'t leave the meeting with a new best friend but I did leave with a sense that the men and women who attend are interesting lively people and that I\'ll be back next month.\r\n\r\nI\'ve also been busy getting to know a number of my neighbors in my apartment building. The thing that has been hard about this is just timing issues. We always have a good time when we see each other, but our schedules don\'t always match up. This seems to be a modern problem--not just a problem when it comes to making friends. Anyhow, we\'re going to a show on Friday night together so that should be great fun.\r\n\r\nIn my mind, that\'s how this making friends thing works--little by little.','The Seattle Freeze & Making Friends ','','inherit','open','open','','237-revision-v1','','','2014-03-26 13:13:52','2014-03-26 20:13:52','',237,'http://carolynemigh.com/237-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(244,2,'2014-03-27 09:26:38','2014-03-27 16:26:38','I don\'t know any of the bottles of wine at the grocery store anymore. Granted, I also haven\'t lived in the States for the last five years. So I go to buy wine and stand in the aisle and think: what about this one? or this one? maybe this one? I buy a bottle or two, try it and think yep that was good or nope, didn\'t love it.\r\n\r\nOver the holidays, my sister ended up buying two cases of wine from Three Rivers Winery--one white and one red which we then split. This wine is good and we got it for a great price. Needless to say this mixed case of wine while delightful hasn\'t helped me identify three or four go-to grocery store bottles of red wine.\r\n\r\nSo my hunt for the best $8-15 bottles continues.<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Wine wisdom and NPR\" href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/02/07/272515201/wine-wisdom-with-a-wink-a-slackers-guide-to-selecting-vino\" target=\"_blank\">This piece from NPR is cute and a little irreverent</a>. The recommendations boil down to this: look for any French bottle from Cotes du Rhone, cabernet sauvignon is a sure bet for good cheap wine as the grapes are easy to grow, don\'t buy pinot noir cheap as this is a finicky grape and as such a good bottle costs more.\r\n\r\nIf your\'e into Top 10 lists, like I am, you\'ll get sucked into this wine blog--<a title=\"Reverse wine snob\" href=\"http://www.reversewinesnob.com\" target=\"_blank\">the Reverse Wine Snob</a>. All of the wines found on these lists are under $20. The site is a little frantic in terms of the layout and the endless references to wine sponsors but the reviews make it worth your time.  I\'m loving this list: <a title=\"10 Red Wines under $20\" href=\"http://www.reversewinesnob.com/2014/01/top-10-red-wines-under-20-dollars.html\" target=\"_blank\">10 Red Wines under $20--2014 Edition </a>as I know that I\'ve seen many of these wines at my local grocery store. The <a href=\"http://www.reversewinesnob.com/2013/10/gundlach-bundschu-mountain-cuvee.html\" data-ls-seen=\"1\">Gundlach Bundschu Mountain Cuvée 2010</a> and the <a title=\"Punto y Coma Garnacha 2009 - The Calatayud Strikes Again!\" href=\"http://www.reversewinesnob.com/2013/06/punto-y-coma-garnacha-2009.html\" data-ls-seen=\"1\">Punto y Coma Garnacha 2009</a> are both high on my to-find and to-drink list!\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Daily Picks from the Wine Spectator \" href=\"http://www.winespectator.com/dailypicks\" target=\"_blank\">The Wine Spectator </a>has a fun daily list feature and I was pleasantly surprised to see recommendations for local-ish wineries Columbia Crest Cabernet Sauvignon Columbia Valley Grand Estates 2011 and Chateau Ste Michelle-Dr. Loosen Riesling Saint M 2012\r\n\r\nThere\'s this visually beautiful piece from the Pour at the NYT for <a title=\"The Pour and 20 Winter Wines for $20\" href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/01/08/dining/20140106-POUR.html\" target=\"_blank\">20 Winter Wines for $20</a>. Oh and the descriptions of the various wines is also pleasing.\r\n\r\nOh and in case you missed this, there\'s a new wine guide out: <a title=\"Scratch and Sniff Wine Guide\" href=\"http://www.amazon.com/dp/0544005031/?tag=mh0b-20&amp;hvadid=3525517277&amp;ref=pd_sl_7nah8wn3jh_ee\" target=\"_blank\">The Essential Scratch and Sniff Guide to Becoming a Wine Expert: Take a Whiff of That</a>. The title is kind of a mouthful but the idea is pretty clever.\r\n\r\nI should probably also find a local wine shop in the greater Ballard or a grocery store that does regular tastings. Then I could really give this wine-hunt a serious go! Because ultimately, you do have to taste the wine in order to determine if you like it or not.\r\n\r\nAny recommendations for bottles or for neighborhood wine shops?','Hunting for a go-to Bottle of Wine und $15 ','','inherit','open','open','','233-revision-v1','','','2014-03-27 09:26:38','2014-03-27 16:26:38','',233,'http://carolynemigh.com/233-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(246,2,'2014-03-28 17:20:32','2014-03-29 00:20:32','It was raining this morning. Kind of a lot. So I just put the hood on my raincoat up. Finding my umbrella seemed like too much work. I think Seattle is wearing off on me. In a good way but really, who am I and when did I become the girl who can\'t be bothered to find her umbrella?! I justified it by saying to myself: I don\'t want to deal with a wet umbrella at work. But here\'s the thing, I basically couldn\'t see out of my glasses there were so many raindrops on them and I think to myself maybe I should wear my contacts--not maybe I should get out my umbrella.\n\nSo my parents are coming to visit this weekend. Somehow C. and I convinced them to drive over and we\'re going to have a grand time together. I think that they are bring three cases of Walla Walla wine with them. My dAd apparently read my blog post and worried that I might need more wine. They found a case of whites at $6.25 a bottle and then today my MoM texted about getting two cases of red at $8 a bottle. My sister and I are going to end up with a lot of wine. The best part, it\'s well under the $15 a bottle goal I\'d outlined. \n\nMy MoM already made a request to go for pastries at my local bakery. Um, obviously. Sunday morning can\'t come soon enough. \n\nMy dAd hasn\'t made any requests that I know of. Mostly C. and I have made requests of him related to things we need fixed. What are dads for after all?! \n\nI do expect that my dAd will take photos of everything we do. This was his MO in Bulgaria and Turkey this summer. He just has so much fun with it. He\'ll take embarrassing photos of is and later post them on his blog but because he has a blog and I think it\'s really cute I won\'t complain if if he catches me doing something cringeworthy. \n\nI also expect that he will be happy with one surprise that C. and I have come up with for him but we won\'t talk about that here. Not right now. He reads this blog and comments more quickly than even my MoM!!\n\nWe\'re topping the whole thing off by visiting the Miro exhibit. This should be lots of fun because we are also meeting up with my MoM\'s bother and sister (my aunt and uncle) \nand a mix of their children and various plus-ones. \n\nThis weekend is going to be so much fun that I\'m going to need a weekend to recover!!','This weekend: parents, pastries, photos & Miro','','publish','open','open','','this-weekend-parents-pastries-photos-miro','','','2014-03-28 17:20:32','2014-03-29 00:20:32','',0,'http://carolynemigh.com/?p=246',0,'post','',2),(247,2,'2014-03-28 17:20:32','2014-03-29 00:20:32','It was raining this morning. Kind of a lot. So I just put the hood on my raincoat up. Finding my umbrella seemed like too much work. I think Seattle is wearing off on me. In a good way but really, who am I and when did I become the girl who can\'t be bothered to find her umbrella?! I justified it by saying to myself: I don\'t want to deal with a wet umbrella at work. But here\'s the thing, I basically couldn\'t see out of my glasses there were so many raindrops on them and I think to myself maybe I should wear my contacts--not maybe I should get out my umbrella.\n\nSo my parents are coming to visit this weekend. Somehow C. and I convinced them to drive over and we\'re going to have a grand time together. I think that they are bring three cases of Walla Walla wine with them. My dAd apparently read my blog post and worried that I might need more wine. They found a case of whites at $6.25 a bottle and then today my MoM texted about getting two cases of red at $8 a bottle. My sister and I are going to end up with a lot of wine. The best part, it\'s well under the $15 a bottle goal I\'d outlined. \n\nMy MoM already made a request to go for pastries at my local bakery. Um, obviously. Sunday morning can\'t come soon enough. \n\nMy dAd hasn\'t made any requests that I know of. Mostly C. and I have made requests of him related to things we need fixed. What are dads for after all?! \n\nI do expect that my dAd will take photos of everything we do. This was his MO in Bulgaria and Turkey this summer. He just has so much fun with it. He\'ll take embarrassing photos of is and later post them on his blog but because he has a blog and I think it\'s really cute I won\'t complain if if he catches me doing something cringeworthy. \n\nI also expect that he will be happy with one surprise that C. and I have come up with for him but we won\'t talk about that here. Not right now. He reads this blog and comments more quickly than even my MoM!!\n\nWe\'re topping the whole thing off by visiting the Miro exhibit. This should be lots of fun because we are also meeting up with my MoM\'s bother and sister (my aunt and uncle) \nand a mix of their children and various plus-ones. \n\nThis weekend is going to be so much fun that I\'m going to need a weekend to recover!!','This weekend: parents, pastries, photos & Miro','','inherit','open','open','','246-revision-v1','','','2014-03-28 17:20:32','2014-03-29 00:20:32','',246,'http://carolynemigh.com/246-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(248,2,'2014-03-30 21:27:12','2014-03-31 04:27:12','Tonight at the downtown public library Dinaw Mengestu is going to be giving a talk and I am looking forward to it. I haven\'t read his newest book <i>All Our Names </i>yet, but I am looking forward to it. Dinaw Mengestu writes such lively prose so I am excited to hear him speak. I hope that he is as engaging in person as he is on the page.\r\n\r\nI\'ve found myself devouring books on the immigrant experience recently. I think in large part it has to do with my interest in issues related to living in a foreign space where one is an outsider because she doesn\'t speak the language fluently, isn\'t familiar with the history or politics and doesn\'t have a shared culture or sense of humor.\r\n\r\nI\'ve returned home after five years abroad and now my reading list is full of books about life in America. I steal many of my suggestions from Petya Grady who is blogging at <a title=\"The Migrant Book Club\" href=\"http://www.themigrantbookclub.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The Migrant Book Club</a> but I\'ve been building my own list browsing at bookstores and reading widely print and new media book reviews.\r\n\r\nSo what\'s on my list? Off the top of my head:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart</li>\r\n	<li>Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A memoir of Food and Longing by Anya Von Bremzen</li>\r\n	<li>Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie</li>\r\n	<li>Every Day is for the Thief by Teju Cole</li>\r\n	<li>The UnAmericans by Molly Antopol</li>\r\n	<li>You are One of Them by Elliott Holt</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nWhat else should I be reading?','Seattle Public Library, Dinaw Mengestu & Books on the Immigrant Experience','','inherit','open','open','','229-revision-v1','','','2014-03-30 21:27:12','2014-03-31 04:27:12','',229,'http://carolynemigh.com/229-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(249,2,'2014-03-31 20:17:08','2014-04-01 03:17:08','So there\'s this thing, the Seattle-Freeze, which I am not really sure is a thing at all but which everyone talks about. The idea is that for newcomers to the city it\'s hard to make friends in Seattle.\r\n\r\nNow I hate to break it to you, but it\'s hard to make friends in <em>any</em> city after college so I am not really sure what makes Seattle different in this respect. Like somehow, it\'s really, really hard to make friends here? Unclear.\r\n\r\nBut it\'s enough of a thing (and Seattle is enough of a nerdy-tech place), that there\'s a <a title=\"The Seattle Freeze\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Freeze\" target=\"_blank\">wikipedia entry</a> for the Seattle Freeze--you know because the Seattle Freeze clearly needs its own wikipedia page. And Seattle public radio, <a title=\"KPLU and the Seattle Freeze\" href=\"http://www.kpluwonders.org/content/why-seattle-freeze-so-hard-melt\" target=\"_blank\">KPLU also has a piece on the Freeze</a> but it\'s more light hearted and inquisitive than anything else.\r\n\r\nHere\'s the deal, I don\'t want to believe in the Seattle Freeze. I think it\'s just a state of mind. Then again, I\'ll also talk to just about anyboy and it\'s in my best interest <em>not</em> to buy into the Seattle Freeze.\r\n\r\nAll of this said, what\'s a nearly friend-less girl like me to do? Well, I am working on making friends in Seattle. Now to be clear, I\'m not exactly friend-less.\r\n\r\nOne of the reasons I ended up here is because my sister C. calls Seattle home. So step one to making friends in Seattle has been this: steal my sister\'s. I\'ve wormed my way into book club, I\'ve been invited to celebrate birthday parties and we\'ve consumed lots of good, bad and questionable alcohol together. So far, so good. I\'m well on my way to stealing all of her friends. Lucky for me, she has good taste in friends.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI also have a few really good friends from high school who live in the area. We\'ve been reconnecting and having a lot of fun doing it but their lives are different than mine. They are married and have children. Really cute, smart and funny kids but kids nonetheless. It means making plans further out and negotiating more complicated schedules. I am glad to do it and I am happy to see that our friendships are strong enough and flexiable enough to adjust to these changes. But,<em> gasp</em>, we aren\'t as available as we were at 16 to just hang out.\r\n\r\nSo I\'ve been busy putting myself out there in an attempt to make new friends.\r\n\r\nThat\'s the thing about making friends you have to put yourself out there. You can\'t wait for others to invite you along. You have to make plans and you have to initiate hangouts. You have to be proactive. You have to claw your way in but you also have to be willing to go out.\r\n\r\nLast week, for example, I attended the monthly book club meeting hosted at <a title=\"The Secret Garden Bookshop in Ballard\" href=\"http://secretgardenbooks.com/\" target=\"_blank\">the local bookstore Secret Garden Bookshop</a> in Ballard. They have a standing meeting on the third Thursday of the month. I was a little nervous to go for the first time, but once there, everyone was so nice. It was little hard to get a word in edgewise but I think that\'s one of the signs of a good book club. Now I didn\'t leave the meeting with a new best friend but I did leave with a sense that the men and women who attend are interesting lively people and that I\'ll be back next month.\r\n\r\nI\'ve also been busy getting to know a number of my neighbors in my apartment building. The thing that has been hard about this is just timing issues. We always have a good time when we see each other, but our schedules don\'t always match up. This seems to be a modern problem--not just a problem when it comes to making friends. Anyhow, we\'re going to a show on Friday night together so that should be great fun.\r\n\r\nIn my mind, that\'s how this making friends thing works--little by little.','The Seattle Freeze & Making Friends ','','inherit','open','open','','237-revision-v1','','','2014-03-31 20:17:08','2014-04-01 03:17:08','',237,'http://carolynemigh.com/237-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(252,2,'2014-04-09 16:00:42','2014-04-09 23:00:42','I’ve been pulled in a lot of different directions recently. I am working two jobs right now and juggling lots of other things as well. I’ve been busy. Good busy but busy nonetheless.\r\n\r\nMy parents came to visit two weekends ago. It was a whirlwind of a trip. We mostly stuck around Ballard hitting up Chuck’s Hop Shop, the Walrus and the Carpenter, Lockspot Café, Cafe Besalu, El Chupacabra and in an attempt to balance out the eating we engaged in a little culture too with a visit to the Seattle Art Museum and the Miro exhibit. To balance all of this out, last weekend I worked both Saturday and Sunday.\r\n\r\nDon’t worry though. It hasn’t been all work and no play. I went and saw a show, Small Black, with friends on Capitol Hill in this space below the bar Neumos called Barboza. We danced out hearts out.\r\n\r\nThis week and last we’ve seen some of the most beautiful weather in recent memory but I’ve had things to do inside—life maintenance thing. Luckily, we’ve also seen our fair share of rain so then I don’t feel so bad.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI like being busy. I like having things to do. This said, all of this being busy and doing fun things has cut into my work-out time.\r\n\r\nI’ve been doing a pretty questionable job training for an upcoming 5k. See above. There’s the issue of time and rain. Oh and motivation. It turns out it’s awfully difficult to convince yourself to go for a run after working for the last nine days in a row in the drizzling rain. On top of this, my training plan as basically been as follows:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>0-2 days a week go to the gym and do 30 minutes on the elliptical.</li>\r\n	<li>2-4 days a week of convincing myself that I am walking plenty between my commuting and my part-tiem job.</li>\r\n	<li>1-2 days a week get dressed to run, find ipod, locate house key and go for said run. Feel a little guilty about not working out as much as I think I should so I decide to run a 5k and time myself to see if I am any faster than the previous week. At the end of the runt, I find that I am faster than last time and then I drink a beer.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nI am pretty sure that none of this constitutes an approved 5k training program but that’s life. And let’s be honest, a beer after 3.5 miles is pretty wonderful. I’m not going to be training for a half marathon using this plan but I that’s okay with me.\r\n\r\nThe hard part is, come the end of the day, I’m tired and a list of to-dos that’s not really getting any shorter. But I can’t beat myself about this because I’m busy and I’m doing the best that I can do. I don’t feel like making dinner so I eat salads.  I don’t feel like writing a clever blog post so I read books instead.\r\n\r\nThen I go to bed. For real, as soon as I am in bed, I’m asleep. It’s wonderful.','The ins and outs of my week','','inherit','open','open','','251-revision-v1','','','2014-04-09 16:00:42','2014-04-09 23:00:42','',251,'http://carolynemigh.com/251-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(253,2,'2014-04-10 17:01:01','2014-04-11 00:01:01','I’ve been a little obsessed with my pedometer recently. I have a really basic cheap one and then a much nicer one that I borrowed from a friend. It started like this: I wanted to know how much I was walking at my part-time retail sales job.\r\n\r\nMostly I am afraid to use my friend’s fancy one. My cheap one keeps falling off my person. It won’t stay clipped to my clothes. It’s fallen off in the middle of the street and it’s jumped into the toilet (and yes, I stuck my hand in the toilet to pull it out--yuck--now the numbers doen\'t read very clearly). Basically, this thing is doing everything it can to separate itself from me. I shove it back in my pocket or stick it back on my waistband but I promptly forget that I have it on and before I know it, the damn thing is on the ground again.\r\n\r\nNow if I wasn\'t so obsessed with how many steps I’ve taken and how many miles I’ve walked, I’d give it up but the thing is I love it. Last Saturday I walked 5.5 miles just at work. That’s a lot of steps. I’ve been jotting down the info when I remember but I am not so good about that.\r\n\r\nEnter my interest in one of the digital activity trackers like the ones Fitbit and Jawbone make. I like to walk and I think of myself as fairly active but I wonder if I am as active as I like to think that I am.\r\n\r\nAnyhow, I’ve done my own research and I am leaning towards buying the Fitbit Flex. This said, I’ve also been looking at the Jawbone UP24. Here’s what I want from an activity tracker:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Not too big or clunky</li>\r\n	<li>Easy to use</li>\r\n	<li>Easy to access the data</li>\r\n	<li>Not too expensive</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nThoughts? Recommendations? Personal anecdotes? The current problem I am facing is that I think that the style/design of the Jawbone is more aesthetically pleasing but it doesn’t seems to meet my other criteria as well as the Fitbit does. The thing about the Fitbit is that their latest model (the Force) was just recalled so what does that say about the other products they’ve created?\r\n\r\nOh decisions, decisions.','Go the steps that you take & the places you go!','','publish','open','open','','go-the-steps-that-you-take-the-places-you-go','','','2014-04-10 17:01:01','2014-04-11 00:01:01','',0,'http://carolynemigh.com/?p=253',0,'post','',3),(254,2,'2014-04-10 17:01:01','2014-04-11 00:01:01','I’ve been a little obsessed with my pedometer recently. I have a really basic cheap one and then a much nicer one that I borrowed from a friend. It started like this: I wanted to know how much I was walking at my part-time retail sales job.\r\n\r\nMostly I am afraid to use my friend’s fancy one. My cheap one keeps falling off my person. It won’t stay clipped to my clothes. It’s fallen off in the middle of the street and it’s jumped into the toilet (and yes, I stuck my hand in the toilet to pull it out--yuck--now the numbers doen\'t read very clearly). Basically, this thing is doing everything it can to separate itself from me. I shove it back in my pocket or stick it back on my waistband but I promptly forget that I have it on and before I know it, the damn thing is on the ground again.\r\n\r\nNow if I wasn\'t so obsessed with how many steps I’ve taken and how many miles I’ve walked, I’d give it up but the thing is I love it. Last Saturday I walked 5.5 miles just at work. That’s a lot of steps. I’ve been jotting down the info when I remember but I am not so good about that.\r\n\r\nEnter my interest in one of the digital activity trackers like the ones Fitbit and Jawbone make. I like to walk and I think of myself as fairly active but I wonder if I am as active as I like to think that I am.\r\n\r\nAnyhow, I’ve done my own research and I am leaning towards buying the Fitbit Flex. This said, I’ve also been looking at the Jawbone UP24. Here’s what I want from an activity tracker:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Not too big or clunky</li>\r\n	<li>Easy to use</li>\r\n	<li>Easy to access the data</li>\r\n	<li>Not too expensive</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nThoughts? Recommendations? Personal anecdotes? The current problem I am facing is that I think that the style/design of the Jawbone is more aesthetically pleasing but it doesn’t seems to meet my other criteria as well as the Fitbit does. The thing about the Fitbit is that their latest model (the Force) was just recalled so what does that say about the other products they’ve created?\r\n\r\nOh decisions, decisions.','Go the steps that you take & the places you go!','','inherit','open','open','','253-revision-v1','','','2014-04-10 17:01:01','2014-04-11 00:01:01','',253,'http://carolynemigh.com/253-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(255,2,'2014-04-11 16:01:53','2014-04-11 23:01:53','Obviously, I should be making a list of breweries and beer-joints in Ballard!\r\n\r\nSure there are a lot of things I could be doing with my time: cleaning my bathroom, making a loaf of bread in my bread maker, going for a run, taking care of my pile of recycling. None of these things seem as interesting as compiling a list of places in Ballard to drink beer.\r\n\r\nI have friends visiting this weekend from San Francisco so it seems like the perfect time to go exploring. These are American friends from Bulgaria so I figured what\'s better than catching up over beer?','Things I should be doing with my time...','','publish','open','open','','things-i-should-be-doing-with-my-time','','','2014-04-11 16:03:48','2014-04-11 23:03:48','',0,'http://carolynemigh.com/?p=255',0,'post','',0),(256,2,'2014-04-11 16:01:50','2014-04-11 23:01:50','Obviously, I should be making a list of breweries and beer-joints in Ballard!\r\n\r\nSure there are a lot of things I could be doing with my time: cleaning my bathroom, making a loaf of bread in my bread maker, going for a run, taking care of my pile of recycling. None of these things seem as interesting as compiling a list of places in Ballard to drink beer.\r\n\r\nI have friends visiting this weekend from San Francisco so it seems like the perfect time to go exploring. These are American friends from Bulgaria so I figured what\'s better than catching up over beer?','Things I should be doing with my time...','','inherit','open','open','','255-revision-v1','','','2014-04-11 16:01:50','2014-04-11 23:01:50','',255,'http://carolynemigh.com/255-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(258,2,'2014-04-15 10:59:55','2014-04-15 17:59:55','How lucky I am to have good friends all over the world. This weekend my friends K. and R. came to visit Seattle from San Francisco.  We had a grand time.\r\n\r\nI met them originally in Sofia where we were all teaching at the same private high school, the American College of Sofia. The school has a small community of international teachers and I was lucky enough to hit it off with K. and R. So much so that we traveled together to Vienna for Christmas Markets and mulled wine, Turkey for spring break last year and to Serbia for a weekend in Belgrade.\r\n<a title=\"R K and me in Ballard!! by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13876725653/\"><img alt=\"R K and me in Ballard!!\" src=\"https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7393/13876725653_7147989c01.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nThis time we met up in the Seattle neighborhood of Ballard. I suggested a tour of local breweries. First of all what’s not to love about supporting local businesses?! What’s more the weather was some of the best weather we’ve had this spring.\r\n<a title=\"Ballard and beer by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13864048455/\"><img alt=\"Ballard and beer\" src=\"https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2848/13864048455_8117529890.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nThe sun was shining and the sky was absolutely clear. It’s rare to see the sky in Seattle without a cloud but that’s what we got on Saturday. I’m also pretty sure that birds were singing and puppies were frolicking.\r\n\r\nOh and the babies. There were lots of babies at the breweries. Apparently Seattle babies learn to love locally brewed beer early.  \r\n<a title=\"Beer! by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13864101933/\"><img alt=\"Beer!\" src=\"https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2848/13864101933_fed7d62f24.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nThen there were the food trucks. Three of the four stops we made had food trucks parked on-site making delicious things to eat.\r\n\r\nWhat a great way to spend a Saturday. More to follow on the specific breweries we visited.','Friends, Ballard and Beer','','publish','open','open','','friends-ballard-and-beer','','','2014-04-16 09:00:48','2014-04-16 16:00:48','',0,'http://carolynemigh.com/?p=258',0,'post','',0),(259,2,'2014-04-15 10:59:35','2014-04-15 17:59:35','How lucky I am to have good friends all over the world. This weekend my friends K. and R. came to visit Seattle from San Francisco.  We had a grand time.\r\n\r\nI met them originally in Sofia where we were all teaching at the same private high school, the American College of Sofia. The school has a small community of international teachers and I was lucky enough to hit it off with K. and R. So much so that we traveled together to Vienna for Christmas Markets and mulled wine, Turkey for spring break last year and to Serbia for a weekend in Belgrade.\r\n<a href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13876725653/\" title=\"R K and me in Ballard!! by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\"><img src=\"https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7393/13876725653_7147989c01.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"R K and me in Ballard!!\"></a>\r\nThis time we met up in the Seattle neighborhood of Ballard. I suggested a tour of local breweries. First of all what’s not to love about supporting local businesses?! What’s more the weather was some of the best weather we’ve had this spring.\r\n<a href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13864048455/\" title=\"Ballard and beer by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\"><img src=\"https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2848/13864048455_8117529890.jpg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"Ballard and beer\"></a>\r\nThe sun was shining and the sky was absolutely clear. It’s rare to see the sky in Seattle without a cloud but that’s what we got on Saturday. I’m also pretty sure that birds were singing and puppies were frolicking.\r\n\r\nOh and the babies. There were lots of babies at the breweries. Apparently Seattle babies learn to love locally brewed beer early.  \r\n<a href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13864101933/\" title=\"Beer! by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\"><img src=\"https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2848/13864101933_fed7d62f24.jpg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"Beer!\"></a>\r\nThen there were the food trucks. Three of the four stops we made had food trucks parked on-site making delicious things to eat.\r\n\r\nWhat a great way to spend a Saturday. More to follow on the specific breweries we visited.','Friends, Ballard and Beer','','inherit','open','open','','258-revision-v1','','','2014-04-15 10:59:35','2014-04-15 17:59:35','',258,'http://carolynemigh.com/258-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(283,2,'2014-05-21 20:45:32','2014-05-22 03:45:32','Yay! I am a year older. Happy birthday to me!!\r\n\r\nAll in all it\'s been a good year.\r\n\r\nLast year I rang in my birthday in Sofia, Bulgaria right after graduation at the American College of Sofia. Everyone was in such a great mood. Graduation and a birthday party will do that.\r\n\r\nMonths earlier, I\'d convinced my friends to have a Princess and Pirates party. We dressed up in pink (or black), wore crowns (or swords) and ate cake. The funfetti cake was from a box brought over in a suitcase from the States. I celebrated with friends from all around the world. We drank Bulgarian beer, wine, and homemade rakiya.\r\n\r\nIt was wonderful and bittersweet. I knew in May that I\'d be moving back to the States in September.\r\n\r\nA year later, I just celebrated my birthday in the States for the first time in 5 years.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nMy last party in the States was in Washington DC. We celebrated with a Fry Party in the backyard of our group row house. The invitation: come eat fried chicken, drink beer and bring something to fry. It was a hoot--french fries, fried pickles, deep fried oreos and a slew of other wonderful but horribly bad for you foods.\r\n\r\nThis year I celebrated in Seattle.\r\n\r\nIt was a blast and we couldn\'t limit the fun to one day. It helps that I had old friends in from out of town but who am I kidding, it also helps that all winter I\'ve been working to steal my sister\'s friends and make some of my own.\r\n\r\nFriday night we went to my high school cousin\'s play. It was great! Then we went out dancing on Capitol Hill and I love dancing--even if I was wearing a wool dress. Who does that?! Well, I did get dressed at 6am but one would think I was more clever than that. Ha.\r\n\r\nWe woke up the next morning, to make brunch at my apartment. We ate a lot of tasty breakfast foods and drank mimosas. Yum! After brunch, we headed down to the Ballard breweries. It was a sunny but cool day. Perfect for enjoying locally brewed beer, chatting with friends and playing corn-hole. From there we stopped by Ballard Pizza for some slices before cheering on the May 17th parade in Ballard. What a day, what a day.\r\n\r\nOh and if that wasn\'t enough we topped the whole thing off with a trip to Woodenville to do some wine tasting. Let it be known: I adore Washington wine. We had a lovely afternoon, chatting up the wine-baristas (really, what do we call the people who pour wine in tasting rooms) and trying new wines. I came home five bottles the richer.\r\n\r\nIt\'s clear that I\'m going to enjoy this birthday for more than just a month. How lucky, am I?!','It\'s My Birthday!','','publish','open','open','','its-my-birthday','','','2014-05-21 20:45:32','2014-05-22 03:45:32','',0,'http://carolynemigh.com/?p=283',0,'post','',5),(261,2,'2014-04-15 15:59:25','0000-00-00 00:00:00','I can\'t stop thinking about rowing. I blame <a href=\"http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16158542-the-boys-in-the-boat\" target=\"_blank\">Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics</a>.\r\n\r\nI grew up sitting on the banks of the Willamette River watching crew races. I loved going out in the launch in the grey early mornings with my dad the varsity crew coach at Oregon State University. I remember the switch from the classic blade to the chopper blade and my dad carefully painting each in Oregon State’s three colors: orange, black and white.\r\n\r\nWhen I was in third grade, my dad woke me up on Saturday mornings to teach me how to row. I laid out my clothes the night before. My sweatpants with elastic around the ankles (or stirrup-pant leggings), a t-shirt and an oversized OSU sweatshirt—usually crew but really just about any sport. We’d drive to the docks and many of my dad’s older college rowers would be there puttering around the shop, working out or going out on the water themselves.\r\n\r\nWe went out in a double. I was too little to carry the shell down to the water and my dad would only let me carry one oar at a time. I was under strict instructions to carry it carefully and not to let the blade hit or even touch the ground. In the boat, I wore my tennis shoes inside of the toe-less shoes screwed into the boat because my feet were too little. I’d also been warned and re-warned about just how thin the hull of the boats are—you never but your foot on the bottom of the boat. It will go right through. Meaning you will have your foot in the river and your dad will be very upset. Rowing equipment is not cheap and a certain reverence needs to be shown to the sport and the equipment.\r\n\r\nGoing out, I knew that my dad was placing a lot of trust in me. Today, I can’t remember if I was the one wanted to go out or if it was my dad who suggested we go out together.\r\nWhat I do remember is sitting in the shell in front of my dad with oars in both of my hands. I couldn’t see him but he gave very clear directions coaching me through the minutiae of rowing in a racing shell. He taught me to row word by word.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nMy dad learned to row in college at Washington State University. He’s fond of saying that rowing is the only varsity sport that one can pick up in college, that you don’t need to have previous experience. He purchased his own scull after college from George Pocock for $900 in 1974 making it among the last boats that Pocock built.\r\n\r\nThis winter the book Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown was published. Before Christmas my dad got a hardcopy from a friend. Then he made my mom read it. Then I after the New Year I snagged it. I’ve been meaning to read it since but not until this past week did I get around to it.\r\nI am so glad that I did.\r\n\r\nThe book is beautifully written. The descriptions of the University of Washington rowing program are detailed and seem to draw heavily on journals and coaches notes. The discussions of life in Seattle during the Great Depression are stark. It is pretty amazing that most of the boys who grace the pages of this book are at university not to mention rowing. What’s more, the odds against which the freshman, junior varsity and varsity boats are up against seem at times insurmountable.\r\n\r\nThat these boys are together in a boat—one coached by Al Ulbrickson and made by George Pocock--already seems awfully lucky not to mention the fact that they are winning the few races they enter and that these boys from Seattle might have the chance to row in the 1936 Olympics seems wildly improbable.\r\n\r\nThat’s what this book is about how the improbable became possible and the men, the training, the races, the mental strength a sport like this requires and the obstacles, largely financial, that these men had to overcome to get to Berlin.\r\n\r\nThe historic races are lively and engaging. In large part this is because as a reader you’re given multiple points of view that of the rowers, the coach and the spectators. These points of view help build the tension in the narrative. I loved it.\r\n\r\nNow here’s the thing, watching a close race from the banks can be exciting but often only lasts for seconds as the boats blow by in the water. As a spectator, there’s a lot of waiting and if you’re lucky a picnic blanket and a sandwich to eat. In the Pacific Northwest, on the west side of the Cascade Mountains you’re also lucky if the sun is shining as spring often brings not-cold-but-not-warm cloudy rainy days. I’ve spent plenty of hours waiting around for races to start and to finish and younger me wasn’t very impressed.\r\n\r\nI think in large part that’s why I put off reading the book. I mean, how good can it be?! It’s a book about rowing. It turns out really good.\r\n\r\nDaniel James Brown’s writing is page turning. The pacing is excellent and the way he brings these men and the art of rowing to life is beautiful. I didn’t want to put the book down. I knew the outcome of the 1936 Olympics and I was still turning page after page, disappointed when my bus dropped me off at work because I’d have to wait until lunch to read the book again.\r\n\r\nAnd that single racing shell built by Pocock for my dad? He still has it. It’s hanging in my parent’s antique store in Walla Walla—a functional work of art.','Seattle, Rowing and the 1936 Olympics','','draft','open','open','','','','','2014-04-15 15:59:25','2014-04-15 22:59:25','',0,'http://carolynemigh.com/?p=261',0,'post','',0),(262,2,'2014-04-15 15:59:25','2014-04-15 22:59:25','I can\'t stop thinking about rowing. I blame <a href=\"http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16158542-the-boys-in-the-boat\" target=\"_blank\">Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics</a>.\r\n\r\nI grew up sitting on the banks of the Willamette River watching crew races. I loved going out in the launch in the grey early mornings with my dad the varsity crew coach at Oregon State University. I remember the switch from the classic blade to the chopper blade and my dad carefully painting each in Oregon State’s three colors: orange, black and white.\r\n\r\nWhen I was in third grade, my dad woke me up on Saturday mornings to teach me how to row. I laid out my clothes the night before. My sweatpants with elastic around the ankles (or stirrup-pant leggings), a t-shirt and an oversized OSU sweatshirt—usually crew but really just about any sport. We’d drive to the docks and many of my dad’s older college rowers would be there puttering around the shop, working out or going out on the water themselves.\r\n\r\nWe went out in a double. I was too little to carry the shell down to the water and my dad would only let me carry one oar at a time. I was under strict instructions to carry it carefully and not to let the blade hit or even touch the ground. In the boat, I wore my tennis shoes inside of the toe-less shoes screwed into the boat because my feet were too little. I’d also been warned and re-warned about just how thin the hull of the boats are—you never but your foot on the bottom of the boat. It will go right through. Meaning you will have your foot in the river and your dad will be very upset. Rowing equipment is not cheap and a certain reverence needs to be shown to the sport and the equipment.\r\n\r\nGoing out, I knew that my dad was placing a lot of trust in me. Today, I can’t remember if I was the one wanted to go out or if it was my dad who suggested we go out together.\r\nWhat I do remember is sitting in the shell in front of my dad with oars in both of my hands. I couldn’t see him but he gave very clear directions coaching me through the minutiae of rowing in a racing shell. He taught me to row word by word.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nMy dad learned to row in college at Washington State University. He’s fond of saying that rowing is the only varsity sport that one can pick up in college, that you don’t need to have previous experience. He purchased his own scull after college from George Pocock for $900 in 1974 making it among the last boats that Pocock built.\r\n\r\nThis winter the book Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown was published. Before Christmas my dad got a hardcopy from a friend. Then he made my mom read it. Then I after the New Year I snagged it. I’ve been meaning to read it since but not until this past week did I get around to it.\r\nI am so glad that I did.\r\n\r\nThe book is beautifully written. The descriptions of the University of Washington rowing program are detailed and seem to draw heavily on journals and coaches notes. The discussions of life in Seattle during the Great Depression are stark. It is pretty amazing that most of the boys who grace the pages of this book are at university not to mention rowing. What’s more, the odds against which the freshman, junior varsity and varsity boats are up against seem at times insurmountable.\r\n\r\nThat these boys are together in a boat—one coached by Al Ulbrickson and made by George Pocock--already seems awfully lucky not to mention the fact that they are winning the few races they enter and that these boys from Seattle might have the chance to row in the 1936 Olympics seems wildly improbable.\r\n\r\nThat’s what this book is about how the improbable became possible and the men, the training, the races, the mental strength a sport like this requires and the obstacles, largely financial, that these men had to overcome to get to Berlin.\r\n\r\nThe historic races are lively and engaging. In large part this is because as a reader you’re given multiple points of view that of the rowers, the coach and the spectators. These points of view help build the tension in the narrative. I loved it.\r\n\r\nNow here’s the thing, watching a close race from the banks can be exciting but often only lasts for seconds as the boats blow by in the water. As a spectator, there’s a lot of waiting and if you’re lucky a picnic blanket and a sandwich to eat. In the Pacific Northwest, on the west side of the Cascade Mountains you’re also lucky if the sun is shining as spring often brings not-cold-but-not-warm cloudy rainy days. I’ve spent plenty of hours waiting around for races to start and to finish and younger me wasn’t very impressed.\r\n\r\nI think in large part that’s why I put off reading the book. I mean, how good can it be?! It’s a book about rowing. It turns out really good.\r\n\r\nDaniel James Brown’s writing is page turning. The pacing is excellent and the way he brings these men and the art of rowing to life is beautiful. I didn’t want to put the book down. I knew the outcome of the 1936 Olympics and I was still turning page after page, disappointed when my bus dropped me off at work because I’d have to wait until lunch to read the book again.\r\n\r\nAnd that single racing shell built by Pocock for my dad? He still has it. It’s hanging in my parent’s antique store in Walla Walla—a functional work of art.','Seattle, Rowing and the 1936 Olympics','','inherit','open','open','','261-revision-v1','','','2014-04-15 15:59:25','2014-04-15 22:59:25','',261,'http://carolynemigh.com/261-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(263,2,'2014-04-16 09:04:38','2014-04-16 16:04:38','When I found out that K. and R. were going to be in Seattle this past weekend and that it was supposed to be beautiful I suggested that we check out some of the local breweries in Ballard. I did this without having ever been to a brewery in Seattle—let alone Ballard.\r\n\r\nIt seemed like a good idea. And it was.\r\n<a title=\"IMG_0421 by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13864276535/\"><img alt=\"IMG_0421\" src=\"https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2914/13864276535_b6aa946b8d.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nOnly in hindsight and in typing up this post, does it seem like this plan could have flopped given the fact that I suggested this activity because I wanted to do it--not because I’d done it and had enjoyed it. But really what can go wrong with a combination like this: friends + beer + food trucks + sunshine in Seattle?!\r\n\r\nWe started our beer-adventure at Stoup in Ballard.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI walked down from my place north of Market Street and it took me longer than I guessed it would at nearly 30 minutes and I am a quick walker.\r\n\r\nStoup is simple and streamlined. The beers on tap are written out on a chalkboard. You can pick different sizes from a flight to 12oz, 16oz and even a growler. Yeah! I think that there were four or five beers on tap and a couple of people working behind the bar.\r\n<a title=\"IMG_0423 by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13864300803/\"><img alt=\"IMG_0423\" src=\"https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2897/13864300803_b349fd4573.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nThere was a line to wait in to order but everyone was in a good mood and the line moved quickly enough. I had an IPA which I thought was hoppy and delicious.\r\n\r\nThe pint glasses the beer is served in are cute. Look at that logo.\r\n<a title=\"IMG_0424 by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13864259395/\"><img alt=\"IMG_0424\" src=\"https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7070/13864259395_0693e38602.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nMy only complaint about Stoup was that for a beautiful day there wasn’t much “patio” space to sit out front of the garage-like-picnic-table-littered interior space. Out front, a small part of the asphalt area, which I’ve kindly described as patio space, was roped off and people were sitting in chairs and on the ground out there. It was okay but not great. I suspect that it probably has something to do with how the space is zoned or the license to serve beer but I don’t know about that.\r\n\r\nAll in all, Stoup was a great place to get our beer adventure started and I could easily imagine enjoying a beer inside their industrial-garage-like space on a less beautiful day or even on a drizzly rainy day. Three cheers for Stoup!!','Stop #1 on the Beer-Adventure: Stoup Brewery','','publish','open','open','','stop-1-on-the-beer-adventure-stoup-brewery','','','2014-04-16 09:04:38','2014-04-16 16:04:38','',0,'http://carolynemigh.com/?p=263',0,'post','',0),(264,2,'2014-04-15 16:56:08','2014-04-15 23:56:08','When I found out that K. and R. were going to be in Seattle this past weekend and that it was supposed to be beautiful I suggested that we check out some of the local breweries in Ballard. I did this without having ever been to a brewery in Seattle—let alone Ballard.\r\n\r\nIt seemed like a good idea. And it was.\r\n\r\nOnly in hindsight and in typing up this post, does it seem like this plan could have flopped given the fact that I suggested this activity because I wanted to do it--not because I’d done it and had enjoyed it. But really what can go wrong with a combination like this: friends + beer + food trucks + sunshine in Seattle?!\r\n\r\nWe started our beer-adventure at Stoup in Ballard.\r\n\r\nI walked down from my place north of Market Street and it took me longer than I guessed it would at nearly 30 minutes and I am a quick walker.\r\n\r\nStoup is simple and streamlined. The beers on tap are written out on a chalkboard. You can pick different sizes from a flight to 12oz, 16oz and even a growler. Yeah! I think that there were four or five beers on tap and a couple of people working behind the bar.\r\n\r\nThere was a line to wait in to order but everyone was in a good mood and the line moved quickly enough. I had an IPA which I thought was hoppy and delicious.\r\n\r\nThe pint glasses the beer is served in are cute. Look at that logo.\r\n\r\nMy only complaint about Stoup was that for a beautiful day there wasn’t much “patio” space to sit out front of the garage-like-picnic-table-littered interior space. Out front, a small part of the asphalt area, which I’ve kindly described as patio space, was roped off and people were sitting in chairs and on the ground out there. It was okay but not great. I suspect that it probably has something to do with how the space is zoned or the license to serve beer but I don’t know about that.\r\n\r\nAll in all, Stoup was a great place to get our beer adventure started and I could easily imagine enjoying a beer inside their industrial-garage-like space on a less beautiful day or even on a drizzly rainy day. Three cheers for Stoup!!','Stop #1 on the Beer-Adventure: Stoup Brewery','','inherit','open','open','','263-revision-v1','','','2014-04-15 16:56:08','2014-04-15 23:56:08','',263,'http://carolynemigh.com/263-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(265,2,'2014-04-16 09:00:48','2014-04-16 16:00:48','How lucky I am to have good friends all over the world. This weekend my friends K. and R. came to visit Seattle from San Francisco.  We had a grand time.\r\n\r\nI met them originally in Sofia where we were all teaching at the same private high school, the American College of Sofia. The school has a small community of international teachers and I was lucky enough to hit it off with K. and R. So much so that we traveled together to Vienna for Christmas Markets and mulled wine, Turkey for spring break last year and to Serbia for a weekend in Belgrade.\r\n<a title=\"R K and me in Ballard!! by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13876725653/\"><img alt=\"R K and me in Ballard!!\" src=\"https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7393/13876725653_7147989c01.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nThis time we met up in the Seattle neighborhood of Ballard. I suggested a tour of local breweries. First of all what’s not to love about supporting local businesses?! What’s more the weather was some of the best weather we’ve had this spring.\r\n<a title=\"Ballard and beer by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13864048455/\"><img alt=\"Ballard and beer\" src=\"https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2848/13864048455_8117529890.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nThe sun was shining and the sky was absolutely clear. It’s rare to see the sky in Seattle without a cloud but that’s what we got on Saturday. I’m also pretty sure that birds were singing and puppies were frolicking.\r\n\r\nOh and the babies. There were lots of babies at the breweries. Apparently Seattle babies learn to love locally brewed beer early.  \r\n<a title=\"Beer! by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13864101933/\"><img alt=\"Beer!\" src=\"https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2848/13864101933_fed7d62f24.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nThen there were the food trucks. Three of the four stops we made had food trucks parked on-site making delicious things to eat.\r\n\r\nWhat a great way to spend a Saturday. More to follow on the specific breweries we visited.','Friends, Ballard and Beer','','inherit','open','open','','258-revision-v1','','','2014-04-16 09:00:48','2014-04-16 16:00:48','',258,'http://carolynemigh.com/258-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(266,2,'2014-04-16 09:04:38','2014-04-16 16:04:38','When I found out that K. and R. were going to be in Seattle this past weekend and that it was supposed to be beautiful I suggested that we check out some of the local breweries in Ballard. I did this without having ever been to a brewery in Seattle—let alone Ballard.\r\n\r\nIt seemed like a good idea. And it was.\r\n<a title=\"IMG_0421 by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13864276535/\"><img alt=\"IMG_0421\" src=\"https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2914/13864276535_b6aa946b8d.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nOnly in hindsight and in typing up this post, does it seem like this plan could have flopped given the fact that I suggested this activity because I wanted to do it--not because I’d done it and had enjoyed it. But really what can go wrong with a combination like this: friends + beer + food trucks + sunshine in Seattle?!\r\n\r\nWe started our beer-adventure at Stoup in Ballard.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI walked down from my place north of Market Street and it took me longer than I guessed it would at nearly 30 minutes and I am a quick walker.\r\n\r\nStoup is simple and streamlined. The beers on tap are written out on a chalkboard. You can pick different sizes from a flight to 12oz, 16oz and even a growler. Yeah! I think that there were four or five beers on tap and a couple of people working behind the bar.\r\n<a title=\"IMG_0423 by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13864300803/\"><img alt=\"IMG_0423\" src=\"https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2897/13864300803_b349fd4573.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nThere was a line to wait in to order but everyone was in a good mood and the line moved quickly enough. I had an IPA which I thought was hoppy and delicious.\r\n\r\nThe pint glasses the beer is served in are cute. Look at that logo.\r\n<a title=\"IMG_0424 by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13864259395/\"><img alt=\"IMG_0424\" src=\"https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7070/13864259395_0693e38602.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nMy only complaint about Stoup was that for a beautiful day there wasn’t much “patio” space to sit out front of the garage-like-picnic-table-littered interior space. Out front, a small part of the asphalt area, which I’ve kindly described as patio space, was roped off and people were sitting in chairs and on the ground out there. It was okay but not great. I suspect that it probably has something to do with how the space is zoned or the license to serve beer but I don’t know about that.\r\n\r\nAll in all, Stoup was a great place to get our beer adventure started and I could easily imagine enjoying a beer inside their industrial-garage-like space on a less beautiful day or even on a drizzly rainy day. Three cheers for Stoup!!','Stop #1 on the Beer-Adventure: Stoup Brewery','','inherit','open','open','','263-revision-v1','','','2014-04-16 09:04:38','2014-04-16 16:04:38','',263,'http://carolynemigh.com/263-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(267,2,'2014-04-17 07:16:45','2014-04-17 14:16:45','Populuxe Brewing was the second stop on our list. Given the fact it was clear that we shouldn’t (and frankly probably couldn’t) visit all of the breweries in Ballard, I pushed for it based on this: my neighbor and friend C. said that it’s her favorite brewery in the neighborhood and I believe in recommendations. \r\n\r\nC. did not lead us astray. Populuxe was great.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"IMG_0431 by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13864260813/\"><img alt=\"IMG_0431\" src=\"https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3830/13864260813_9de495eeac.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nIt was everything we wanted. The beer was very good. There was a food truck parked in back. The patio was large and there was the ever popular game: corn-hole. We shared one end of a picnic table with a group of three guys and played 4+ games of corn-hole. What’s more? There were bowls of pretzels and peanuts to snack on as well.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe outdoor space isn’t fancy but it was perfect. Plenty of tables—some with umbrellas some without. When we were there it was busy but not too busy.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"IMG_0425 by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13864626324/\"><img alt=\"IMG_0425\" src=\"https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3825/13864626324_395f60151f.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nIt was an interesting mix of people. Small groups of people were sharing tables and a larger group had pushed two tables together. Some people standing around drinking beer and others were playing corn-hole. There was even a woman working on her laptop. Oh and there were also plenty of dogs and toddlers.\r\n\r\nThe yard of Populuxe is made up of gravel and this was a really big hit with the under 3 crowd. They were also pretty interested in corn-hole but for the most part their parents kept them out of the line of fire. Not that we were going to purposefully hit a small child with a beanbag.\r\n<a title=\"Ballard by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13876688975/\"><img alt=\"Ballard\" src=\"https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3724/13876688975_9fe8094954.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nThe beer at Populuxe was very good. I had the American Blond and it was love at second-sip. The first sip didn’t win me over and between sip one and sip two I lamented not ordering the IPA but by sip two I was a happy camper. The blond was crisp and light-perfect for a sunny day outside.\r\n\r\nMy friend K. had the NW Wit and she really enjoyed it. It was smooth and easy to drink. R. went with the sour beer Precipitation Porter-Sour.\r\n<a title=\"IMG_0428 by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13864236955/\"><img alt=\"IMG_0428\" src=\"https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2887/13864236955_88ba4e5f9d.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nHe reported that he’s getting really into the sour beers. I haven’t yet been won over by the sour beers. I had some of his and I liked it okay but it was hard to imagine drinking a whole glass. I think that I need to give them a shot—I need sour-beer tasting night. \r\n\r\nNow Populuxe doesn’t look like much from the sidewalk but I am happy to report that it is now one of my favorite Ballard breweries too.','Populuxe Brewing in Ballard, Stop #2','','publish','open','open','','populuxe-brewing-in-ballard-stop-2','','','2014-04-16 13:24:58','2014-04-16 20:24:58','',0,'http://carolynemigh.com/?p=267',0,'post','',0),(268,2,'2014-04-16 13:24:58','2014-04-16 20:24:58','Populuxe Brewing was the second stop on our list. Given the fact it was clear that we shouldn’t (and frankly probably couldn’t) visit all of the breweries in Ballard, I pushed for it based on this: my neighbor and friend C. said that it’s her favorite brewery in the neighborhood and I believe in recommendations. \r\n\r\nC. did not lead us astray. Populuxe was great.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"IMG_0431 by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13864260813/\"><img alt=\"IMG_0431\" src=\"https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3830/13864260813_9de495eeac.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nIt was everything we wanted. The beer was very good. There was a food truck parked in back. The patio was large and there was the ever popular game: corn-hole. We shared one end of a picnic table with a group of three guys and played 4+ games of corn-hole. What’s more? There were bowls of pretzels and peanuts to snack on as well.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe outdoor space isn’t fancy but it was perfect. Plenty of tables—some with umbrellas some without. When we were there it was busy but not too busy.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"IMG_0425 by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13864626324/\"><img alt=\"IMG_0425\" src=\"https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3825/13864626324_395f60151f.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nIt was an interesting mix of people. Small groups of people were sharing tables and a larger group had pushed two tables together. Some people standing around drinking beer and others were playing corn-hole. There was even a woman working on her laptop. Oh and there were also plenty of dogs and toddlers.\r\n\r\nThe yard of Populuxe is made up of gravel and this was a really big hit with the under 3 crowd. They were also pretty interested in corn-hole but for the most part their parents kept them out of the line of fire. Not that we were going to purposefully hit a small child with a beanbag.\r\n<a title=\"Ballard by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13876688975/\"><img alt=\"Ballard\" src=\"https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3724/13876688975_9fe8094954.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nThe beer at Populuxe was very good. I had the American Blond and it was love at second-sip. The first sip didn’t win me over and between sip one and sip two I lamented not ordering the IPA but by sip two I was a happy camper. The blond was crisp and light-perfect for a sunny day outside.\r\n\r\nMy friend K. had the NW Wit and she really enjoyed it. It was smooth and easy to drink. R. went with the sour beer Precipitation Porter-Sour.\r\n<a title=\"IMG_0428 by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13864236955/\"><img alt=\"IMG_0428\" src=\"https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2887/13864236955_88ba4e5f9d.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nHe reported that he’s getting really into the sour beers. I haven’t yet been won over by the sour beers. I had some of his and I liked it okay but it was hard to imagine drinking a whole glass. I think that I need to give them a shot—I need sour-beer tasting night. \r\n\r\nNow Populuxe doesn’t look like much from the sidewalk but I am happy to report that it is now one of my favorite Ballard breweries too.','Populuxe Brewing in Ballard, Stop #2','','inherit','open','open','','267-revision-v1','','','2014-04-16 13:24:58','2014-04-16 20:24:58','',267,'http://carolynemigh.com/267-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(269,2,'2014-04-18 07:15:15','2014-04-18 14:15:15','The least interesting brewery and tasting room that we visited was Jolly Roger Taproom. They serve beer brewed by the Maritime Pacific Brewing Company.\r\n\r\nHere’s the thing, the interior space doesn’t have much personality and by the middle of the afternoon their outdoor seating is squarely in the shade. Now this could be great on a hot summer afternoon but on the first beautiful day of spring, it’s still a little too cold to sit outside in the shade.\r\n<a title=\"IMG_0442 by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13864211965/\"><img alt=\"IMG_0442\" src=\"https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5172/13864211965_fb816284e7.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nThe beer list is pretty standard except for the fact that they have a Christmas beer on tap until July. The Christmas beer was pleasantly spiced and given the long, sometimes cold, grey winter/spring we have in Seattle I could see ordering this again. It’s the kind of beer that warms you up.\r\n\r\nI had the Portage Bay Pilsner and why wouldn’t I?\r\n\r\n<a title=\"IMG_0445 by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13864576024/\"><img alt=\"IMG_0445\" src=\"https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5153/13864576024_e490a2b82b.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>Portage Bay is a Seattle landmark and body of water. It just so happens that the brewery is very close to Portage Bay. Basically the bodies of water between Lake Washington, which is fresh water, and Puget Sound, which is salt water, are as follows: Lake Washington to Union Bay to Portage Bay to Lake Union to the Lake Washington Ship Canal and finally Salmon Bay and finally to Puget Sound.\r\n\r\nThat makes the Portage Bay Pilsner a very local beer!! The only commentary I have on all of this is that I think the brewery overlooks the Lake Washington Ship Canal so I’d like to see their next beer named after this body of water--maybe the Lake Washington Ship Canal Weis!','Maritime Pacific Brewing Company & the Jolly Roger Taproom in Ballard','','publish','open','open','','maritime-pacific-brewing-company-the-jolly-roger-taproom-in-ballard','','','2014-04-16 15:15:45','2014-04-16 22:15:45','',0,'http://carolynemigh.com/?p=269',0,'post','',0),(270,2,'2014-04-16 15:15:15','2014-04-16 22:15:15','The least interesting brewery and tasting room that we visited was Jolly Roger Taproom. They serve beer brewed by the Maritime Pacific Brewing Company.\r\n\r\nHere’s the thing, the interior space doesn’t have much personality and by the middle of the afternoon their outdoor seating is squarely in the shade. Now this could be great on a hot summer afternoon but on the first beautiful day of spring, it’s still a little too cold to sit outside in the shade.\r\n<a href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13864211965/\" title=\"IMG_0442 by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\"><img src=\"https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5172/13864211965_fb816284e7.jpg\" width=\"100%\"  alt=\"IMG_0442\"></a>\r\nThe beer list is pretty standard except for the fact that they have a Christmas beer on tap until July. The Christmas beer was pleasantly spiced and given the long, sometimes cold, grey winter/spring we have in Seattle I could see ordering this again. It’s the kind of beer that warms you up.\r\n\r\nI had the Portage Bay Pilsner and why wouldn’t I?\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13864576024/\" title=\"IMG_0445 by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\"><img src=\"https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5153/13864576024_e490a2b82b.jpg\" width=\"100%\"  alt=\"IMG_0445\"></a>Portage Bay is a Seattle landmark and body of water. It just so happens that the brewery is very close to Portage Bay. Basically the bodies of water between Lake Washington, which is fresh water, and Puget Sound, which is salt water, are as follows: Lake Washington to Union Bay to Portage Bay to Lake Union to the Lake Washington Ship Canal and finally Salmon Bay and finally to Puget Sound.\r\n\r\nThat makes the Portage Bay Pilsner a very local beer!! The only commentary I have on all of this is that I think the brewery overlooks the Lake Washington Ship Canal so I’d like to see their next beer named after this body of water--maybe the Lake Washington Ship Canal Weis!','Maritime Pacific Brewing Company & the Jolly Roger Taproom in Ballard','','inherit','open','open','','269-revision-v1','','','2014-04-16 15:15:15','2014-04-16 22:15:15','',269,'http://carolynemigh.com/269-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(271,2,'2014-04-16 15:15:45','2014-04-16 22:15:45','The least interesting brewery and tasting room that we visited was Jolly Roger Taproom. They serve beer brewed by the Maritime Pacific Brewing Company.\r\n\r\nHere’s the thing, the interior space doesn’t have much personality and by the middle of the afternoon their outdoor seating is squarely in the shade. Now this could be great on a hot summer afternoon but on the first beautiful day of spring, it’s still a little too cold to sit outside in the shade.\r\n<a title=\"IMG_0442 by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13864211965/\"><img alt=\"IMG_0442\" src=\"https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5172/13864211965_fb816284e7.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nThe beer list is pretty standard except for the fact that they have a Christmas beer on tap until July. The Christmas beer was pleasantly spiced and given the long, sometimes cold, grey winter/spring we have in Seattle I could see ordering this again. It’s the kind of beer that warms you up.\r\n\r\nI had the Portage Bay Pilsner and why wouldn’t I?\r\n\r\n<a title=\"IMG_0445 by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13864576024/\"><img alt=\"IMG_0445\" src=\"https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5153/13864576024_e490a2b82b.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>Portage Bay is a Seattle landmark and body of water. It just so happens that the brewery is very close to Portage Bay. Basically the bodies of water between Lake Washington, which is fresh water, and Puget Sound, which is salt water, are as follows: Lake Washington to Union Bay to Portage Bay to Lake Union to the Lake Washington Ship Canal and finally Salmon Bay and finally to Puget Sound.\r\n\r\nThat makes the Portage Bay Pilsner a very local beer!! The only commentary I have on all of this is that I think the brewery overlooks the Lake Washington Ship Canal so I’d like to see their next beer named after this body of water--maybe the Lake Washington Ship Canal Weis!','Maritime Pacific Brewing Company & the Jolly Roger Taproom in Ballard','','inherit','open','open','','269-revision-v1','','','2014-04-16 15:15:45','2014-04-16 22:15:45','',269,'http://carolynemigh.com/269-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(273,2,'2014-04-22 19:43:27','2014-04-23 02:43:27','Hilliard\'s was one of my favorite stops on our brewery adventure. Look at this drink list! So many choices.\r\n<a title=\"Hilliards by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13985278103\"><img alt=\"Hilliards\" src=\"https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2933/13985278103_bf27fa8a48.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\n<a title=\"Hilliards by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13962126172\"><img alt=\"Hilliards\" src=\"https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5201/13962126172_0378222884.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nThe space is open, the lighting is super, the tables make for easy conversing and the beer, the beer was great. Hilliard\'s Brewery and Taproom was our last stop on the adventure \'o beer and it\'s good thing that it was.\r\n\r\nIt turns out four beers on a beautiful Saturday afternoon was plenty for me.\r\n\r\n<!--more--><a style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\" title=\"IMG_0458 by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13864181565\"><img alt=\"IMG_0458\" src=\"https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7198/13864181565_b5e744df86.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a><a style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\" title=\"IMG_0462 by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13864206623\"><img alt=\"IMG_0462\" src=\"https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2808/13864206623_444cd4a213.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"> The bar is located in the middle of the space. There\'s canning equipment that rings the backside of the tasting room. You can see it in the background.</span> <a title=\"Hilliards by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13962131492\"><img alt=\"Hilliards\" src=\"https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5582/13962131492_316d8cbf00.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nI liked this brewery a lot because you get a real sense of the actual use of the space. Hilliard\'s doesn\'t bottle beer rather they can it in house.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"IMG_0464 by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13864529104\"><img alt=\"IMG_0464\" src=\"https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3733/13864529104_e030de8a99.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>You can buy pints or cans of beer at the bar. There was a pretty good list of beers to pick from. Everyone found something to love.\r\n<a title=\"IMG_0466 by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13864171223\"><img alt=\"IMG_0466\" src=\"https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5072/13864171223_66916e9224.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nWe played some pool, took some pictures and enjoyed our beers. There was a food truck out front and the place was busy but no one grumbled about standing in line for beer (or the bathroom) and the best part was that the Hilliard\'s never felt crowded!\r\n<a title=\"IMG_0474 by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13864128805\"><img alt=\"IMG_0474\" src=\"https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3698/13864128805_9ec96b169b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" /></a>\r\nHilliard\'s is definitely worth checking out and the kind of place that you could stop just to enjoy a beer, to take some beer to go or to stay and drink with friends.','Hilliard\'s Beer in Ballard ','','publish','open','open','','hilliards-beer-in-ballard','','','2014-04-22 19:43:27','2014-04-23 02:43:27','',0,'http://carolynemigh.com/?p=273',0,'post','',0),(274,2,'2014-04-22 19:40:13','2014-04-23 02:40:13','This was one of my favorite stops on our brewery adventure.\r\n<a href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13985278103\" title=\"Hilliards by Carolyn, on Flickr\"><img src=\"https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2933/13985278103_bf27fa8a48.jpg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"Hilliards\"></a>\r\n<a href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13962126172\" title=\"Hilliards by Carolyn, on Flickr\"><img src=\"https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5201/13962126172_0378222884.jpg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"Hilliards\"></a>\r\nThe space is open, the lighting is super, the tables make for easy conversing and the beer, the beer was great. Hilliard\'s Brewery and Taproom was our last stop on the adventure \'o beer and it\'s good thing that it was. It turns out four beers on a beautiful Saturday afternoon was plenty for me.\r\n<a href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13864181565\" title=\"IMG_0458 by Carolyn, on Flickr\"><img src=\"https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7198/13864181565_b5e744df86.jpg\" width=\"100%\"  alt=\"IMG_0458\"></a>\r\n<a href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13864206623\" title=\"IMG_0462 by Carolyn, on Flickr\"><img src=\"https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2808/13864206623_444cd4a213.jpg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"IMG_0462\"></a>\r\nThe bar is located in the middle of the space. There\'s canning equipment that rings the backside of the tasting room. You can see it in the background.\r\n<a href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13962131492\" title=\"Hilliards by Carolyn, on Flickr\"><img src=\"https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5582/13962131492_316d8cbf00.jpg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"Hilliards\"></a>\r\nI liked this brewery a lot because you get a real sense of the actual use of the space. Hilliard\'s doesn\'t bottle beer rather they can it in house.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13864529104\" title=\"IMG_0464 by Carolyn, on Flickr\"><img src=\"https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3733/13864529104_e030de8a99.jpg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"IMG_0464\"></a>You can buy pints or cans of beer at the bar. There was a pretty good list of beers to pick from. Everyone found something to love.\r\n<a href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13864171223\" title=\"IMG_0466 by Carolyn, on Flickr\"><img src=\"https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5072/13864171223_66916e9224.jpg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"IMG_0466\"></a>\r\nWe played some pool, took some pictures and enjoyed our beers. There was a food truck out front and the place was busy but no one grumbled about standing in line for beer (or the bathroom) and the best part was that the Hilliard\'s never felt crowded!\r\n<a href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13864128805\" title=\"IMG_0474 by Carolyn, on Flickr\"><img src=\"https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3698/13864128805_9ec96b169b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_0474\"></a>\r\nHilliard\'s is definitely worth checking out and the kind of place that you could stop just to enjoy a beer, to take some beer to go or to stay and drink with friends.','Hilliard\'s Beer in Ballard ','','inherit','open','open','','273-revision-v1','','','2014-04-22 19:40:13','2014-04-23 02:40:13','',273,'http://carolynemigh.com/273-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(275,2,'2014-04-22 19:43:11','2014-04-23 02:43:11','Hilliard\'s was one of my favorite stops on our brewery adventure. Look at this drink list! So many choices.\r\n<a title=\"Hilliards by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13985278103\"><img alt=\"Hilliards\" src=\"https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2933/13985278103_bf27fa8a48.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\n<a title=\"Hilliards by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13962126172\"><img alt=\"Hilliards\" src=\"https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5201/13962126172_0378222884.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nThe space is open, the lighting is super, the tables make for easy conversing and the beer, the beer was great. Hilliard\'s Brewery and Taproom was our last stop on the adventure \'o beer and it\'s good thing that it was.\r\n\r\nIt turns out four beers on a beautiful Saturday afternoon was plenty for me.\r\n\r\n<!--more--><a style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\" title=\"IMG_0458 by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13864181565\"><img alt=\"IMG_0458\" src=\"https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7198/13864181565_b5e744df86.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a><a style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\" title=\"IMG_0462 by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13864206623\"><img alt=\"IMG_0462\" src=\"https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2808/13864206623_444cd4a213.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"> The bar is located in the middle of the space. There\'s canning equipment that rings the backside of the tasting room. You can see it in the background.</span> <a title=\"Hilliards by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13962131492\"><img alt=\"Hilliards\" src=\"https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5582/13962131492_316d8cbf00.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nI liked this brewery a lot because you get a real sense of the actual use of the space. Hilliard\'s doesn\'t bottle beer rather they can it in house.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"IMG_0464 by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13864529104\"><img alt=\"IMG_0464\" src=\"https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3733/13864529104_e030de8a99.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>You can buy pints or cans of beer at the bar. There was a pretty good list of beers to pick from. Everyone found something to love.\r\n<a title=\"IMG_0466 by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13864171223\"><img alt=\"IMG_0466\" src=\"https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5072/13864171223_66916e9224.jpg\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nWe played some pool, took some pictures and enjoyed our beers. There was a food truck out front and the place was busy but no one grumbled about standing in line for beer (or the bathroom) and the best part was that the Hilliard\'s never felt crowded!\r\n<a title=\"IMG_0474 by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/13864128805\"><img alt=\"IMG_0474\" src=\"https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3698/13864128805_9ec96b169b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" /></a>\r\nHilliard\'s is definitely worth checking out and the kind of place that you could stop just to enjoy a beer, to take some beer to go or to stay and drink with friends.','Hilliard\'s Beer in Ballard ','','inherit','open','open','','273-revision-v1','','','2014-04-22 19:43:11','2014-04-23 02:43:11','',273,'http://carolynemigh.com/273-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(276,2,'2014-04-26 08:14:09','2014-04-26 15:14:09','I believe in dancing. I am not good at it but I love it.\r\n\r\nWhen I lived in Washington DC I shared a big row house with friends--well, they started out as Craig\'s List roommates but they became friends quickly enough. We had a big kitchen, lots of energy, more money than any of us had ever had before and we young in the city. Right out of college it doesn\'t get much better.\r\n\r\nOur kitchen was tiled with this big black and white tiles--perfect for dancing--and dance we did.\r\n\r\nI can\'t remember what let to the first big impromptu kitchen dance party but there we were drinking homemade cocktails, blasting the music and dancing in our socks. Dancing in socks on tiles is, of course, The Best. Seriously. The Best. You can slide around the floor and if you ask me there is a lot of joy in that.\r\n\r\nThese days, my kitchen in my Ballard is a little small for dancing but I will not deny myself some serious dancing in my kitchen in my socks simply because my kitchen is a little small and the rest of my apartment is carpeted.\r\n\r\nWithout further ado: Five Songs to Dance to on a Saturday Night in your socks. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nOh and as a little ode to my time in DC, these <del>five</del> six songs are from shows that we saw at the 9:30 Club in DC between 2004 and 2008.\r\n\r\nNow get dancing!\r\n\r\nDelta Spirit: Streetwalker\r\n<object width=\"100%\" height=\"240\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" 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type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/v/xGYG1JMQzNs?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" /></object>\r\n\r\nSnow Patrol: Hands Open\r\n<object width=\"100%\" height=\"240\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"//www.youtube.com/v/v5IeT9ZRiRw?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed width=\"100%\" height=\"240\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/v/v5IeT9ZRiRw?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" /></object>','Five Songs to Dance to in your Socks: Thanks 1324 (& the 9:30 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I am not good at it but I love it.\r\n\r\nWhen I lived in Washington DC I shared a big row house with friends--well, they started out as Craig\'s List roommates but they became friends quickly enough. We had a big kitchen, lots of energy, more money than any of us had ever had before and we young in the city. Right out of college it doesn\'t get much better.\r\n\r\nOur kitchen was tiled with this big black and white tiles--perfect for dancing--and dance we did.\r\n\r\nI can\'t remember what let to the first big impromptu kitchen dance party but there we were drinking homemade cocktails, blasting the music and dancing in our socks. Dancing in socks on tiles is, of course, The Best. Seriously. The Best. 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I am not good at it but I love it.\r\n\r\nWhen I lived in Washington DC I shared a big row house with friends--well, they started out as Craig\'s List roommates but they became friends quickly enough. We had a big kitchen, lots of energy, more money than any of us had ever had before and we young in the city. Right out of college it doesn\'t get much better.\r\n\r\nOur kitchen was tiled with this big black and white tiles--perfect for dancing--and dance we did.\r\n\r\nI can\'t remember what let to the first big impromptu kitchen dance party but there we were drinking homemade cocktails, blasting the music and dancing in our socks. Dancing in socks on tiles is, of course, The Best. Seriously. The Best. 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Get a job, find an apartment and plan future holidays. Ha. \n\nThings seldom work out exactly how we imagine. \n\nI applied for lots of jobs and sold clothes part-time. Selling clothes in a big department store was fun, at times annoying and great exercise. Over the course of a long shift 5+ hours I would walk 4 or more miles depending on how busy the fitting room was. \n\nIn February I got a contract position to work in health care via my past work at Georgetown and the networks that stem from things like this. This first position went from three weeks to nearly three months and this then rolled into a second position and finally a third permanent position. \n\nYay. \n\nThere\'s something to be said for being in the right spot at the right time. In large part that\'s how I secured my new position. \n\nIt\'s nice to know that I\'ve got a real job. You know the kind of job with insurance, a retirement plan and paid time off. It\'s one less thing to worry about.','Work','','inherit','open','open','','293-revision-v1','','','2014-06-04 07:46:47','2014-06-04 14:46:47','',293,'http://carolynemigh.com/293-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(295,2,'2014-06-05 07:40:36','2014-06-05 14:40:36','As the calendar rolls closer and closer to July, I\'ve found myself missing Europe. All of it. The cobblestones, tiny cafés, getting lost, finding yourself, the long hot days spent poking around in museums or laying  out on a beach with the rest of Europe. There\'s a lot to miss.\n\nReally you can\'t feel to bad for me. I did spend the past six summers in Europe. And yes, I realize when I put it that way this longing for Europe is kind of obscene. \n\nBut here I am. I\'m starting a new job. I don\'t have any vacation time nor do I have the money to head off to Europe this summer. \n\nSo I\'m going to make do with Seattle. In fact I\'m going to do better than that, I\'m going to bring the best of Europe to me. \n\nWatch out.','The Approach of Summer in Seattle','','publish','open','open','','the-approach-of-summer-in-seattle','','','2014-06-05 07:40:36','2014-06-05 14:40:36','',0,'http://carolynemigh.com/?p=295',0,'post','',0),(296,2,'2014-06-05 07:40:36','2014-06-05 14:40:36','As the calendar rolls closer and closer to July, I\'ve found myself missing Europe. All of it. The cobblestones, tiny cafés, getting lost, finding yourself, the long hot days spent poking around in museums or laying  out on a beach with the rest of Europe. There\'s a lot to miss.\n\nReally you can\'t feel to bad for me. I did spend the past six summers in Europe. And yes, I realize when I put it that way this longing for Europe is kind of obscene. \n\nBut here I am. I\'m starting a new job. I don\'t have any vacation time nor do I have the money to head off to Europe this summer. \n\nSo I\'m going to make do with Seattle. In fact I\'m going to do better than that, I\'m going to bring the best of Europe to me. \n\nWatch out.','The Approach of Summer in Seattle','','inherit','open','open','','295-revision-v1','','','2014-06-05 07:40:36','2014-06-05 14:40:36','',295,'http://carolynemigh.com/295-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(297,2,'2014-06-06 09:08:01','2014-06-06 16:08:01','So my first post on live like a European in Seattle was going to be a post-work, post-gym cocktail with Campari. The cocktail is stupidly simple and dead easy to make. But, only if you have Campari. \n\nThe Campari is a most and the one thing I couldn\'t find at QFC my local grocery store. Needless to say, this is not a European cocktail  post today. \n\nUp until about a year ago, we had to buy any alcohol that wasn\'t beer or wine at a state own liquor store. It was something about taxes, access and safety(?) or maybe just power and control(!!). These state run stores had pretty good selection because well, the only thing they did was sell alcohol. \n\nThe state run store in Walla Walla was smallish and kind of depressing. Nobody really decorates a state run liquor store. But the on very clever thing was that the shop was set up so that all the shelves could be stocked from behind. This resulted in an odd semicircle display of alcohol available to the public but these things happen. \n\nThis store and those like it are no more. Grocery stores can now sell liquor. Ah, that\'s capitalism and democracy at its finest. The democratization of alcohol!!\n\nIn practice what this means is that you can liquor anywhere (well, almost) but the selection is pretty limited to the basics--or maybe it\'s better said this way: to the crowd pleasers. Whiskey, vodka, gin, rum. Yep, yep and yep. Campari? Not so much. \n\nThat\'s okay. I guess half the fun is going to be the hunt. Wish me luck!!','Buying alcohol in Washington','','publish','open','open','','buying-alcohol-in-washington','','','2014-06-06 09:08:01','2014-06-06 16:08:01','',0,'http://carolynemigh.com/?p=297',0,'post','',2),(298,2,'2014-06-06 09:08:01','2014-06-06 16:08:01','So my first post on live like a European in Seattle was going to be a post-work, post-gym cocktail with Campari. The cocktail is stupidly simple and dead easy to make. But, only if you have Campari. \n\nThe Campari is a most and the one thing I couldn\'t find at QFC my local grocery store. Needless to say, this is not a European cocktail  post today. \n\nUp until about a year ago, we had to buy any alcohol that wasn\'t beer or wine at a state own liquor store. It was something about taxes, access and safety(?) or maybe just power and control(!!). These state run stores had pretty good selection because well, the only thing they did was sell alcohol. \n\nThe state run store in Walla Walla was smallish and kind of depressing. Nobody really decorates a state run liquor store. But the on very clever thing was that the shop was set up so that all the shelves could be stocked from behind. This resulted in an odd semicircle display of alcohol available to the public but these things happen. \n\nThis store and those like it are no more. Grocery stores can now sell liquor. Ah, that\'s capitalism and democracy at its finest. The democratization of alcohol!!\n\nIn practice what this means is that you can liquor anywhere (well, almost) but the selection is pretty limited to the basics--or maybe it\'s better said this way: to the crowd pleasers. Whiskey, vodka, gin, rum. Yep, yep and yep. Campari? Not so much. \n\nThat\'s okay. I guess half the fun is going to be the hunt. Wish me luck!!','Buying alcohol in Washington','','inherit','open','open','','297-revision-v1','','','2014-06-06 09:08:01','2014-06-06 16:08:01','',297,'http://carolynemigh.com/297-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(311,2,'2014-06-30 21:34:29','2014-07-01 04:34:29','This is just to say: the nights are getting longer in Seattle and I am loving it. It\'s 9:30pm and there\'s not a cloud in the sky and it\'s just cool enough that outside I am a little chilly in a tank top and a draped scarf. \r\n\r\nI guess it\'s just to say: it doesn\'t get much better than this. \r\n\r\nI can\'t believe that today is the last day of June and tomorrow we\'re ringing in July--2014 is half done and I have no complaints. None. How lucky is that?!','Summer in Seattle ','','publish','open','open','','summer-in-seattle','','','2014-06-30 21:34:29','2014-07-01 04:34:29','',0,'http://carolynemigh.com/?p=311',0,'post','',0),(300,2,'2014-06-08 12:43:47','2014-06-08 19:43:47','On Saturday morning I called my sister and asked her if she was up for a little adventure. She said, yes. Yes, just to be clear, is always the right answer. I told her we were going to track down a little Europe in Ballard. C. said to me: what does that mean? I said: you\'ll see.\r\n<a title=\"Bauhaus Ballard by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/14192187947\"><img src=\"https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2922/14192187947_66e860f5f3_z.jpg\" alt=\"Bauhaus Ballard\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI a lucky that my sister is a good sport. A really good sport.\r\n\r\nI picked her up and we stopped by BevMo and Fred Meyer. Neither of these stops were really related to pretending we\'re in Europe. We spent an embarrassingly long time in BevMo. Basically we walked up and down every isle of an over-sized liquor shop. commenting on all of the alcohol. In Fred Meyer, I picked up a crazy assortment of things: new pink nail polish, pickles, pickled veggies, green olives, balsamic vinegar, as well as an orange, a lemon and a lime. My sister spent the whole time laughing at me.\r\n\r\nI bought her a big bag of pretzels so I think we\'re even now (but maybe I should have bought her two bags to be on the safe side).\r\n\r\nThen we drove back to Ballard.  I found a spot and parallel parked perfectly on the first try. I\'ve never owned a car in my adult until moving to Seattle in October so things like this still bring me joy. Frankly, I hope they always will.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Mr Gyros by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/14192297547\"><img src=\"https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5534/14192297547_032fd749ac_z.jpg\" alt=\"Mr Gyros\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Falafel Sandwich at Mr Gyros by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/14377795164\"><img src=\"https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3852/14377795164_0371d4193d_z.jpg\" alt=\"Falafel Sandwich at Mr Gyros\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe walked by Mr Gyros and I said: let\'s stop for a falafel sandwich.  We decided to split one. It was perfect and even better was the fact that we stopped by at like 2:45 and the shop closes at 3pm so we were inside eating falafel and watching other people get turned away. Your disappointment at being denied Mr Gyros makes my falafel sandwich taste that much sweeter. (Yes, I\'m a horrible person.)\r\n\r\nHalf a falafel sandwic later, we wandered down the street to Bauhaus Coffee. We ordered little cappuccinos because we were pretending to be fancy and European.\r\n<a title=\"Menu at Bauhaus by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/14355633816\"><img src=\"https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3884/14355633816_3c7defc82f_z.jpg\" alt=\"Menu at Bauhaus\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Coffee cups at Bauhaus by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/14377768514\"><img src=\"https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3900/14377768514_8a73eb421c_z.jpg\" alt=\"Coffee cups at Bauhaus\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nI ordered 8 oz. which seems pretty spot on for Europe. C. ordered the 12 oz. cappuccino. I raised my eye at her--that\'s too big to European. She gave me this look: I\'m not actually in Europe. I am in Ballard.\r\n\r\nI let it go.\r\n<a title=\"Chairs at Bauhaus by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/14375365521\"><img src=\"https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3850/14375365521_b50f860db1_z.jpg\" alt=\"Chairs at Bauhaus\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Me at Bauhaus by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/14398819233\"><img src=\"https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5278/14398819233_4444a6a11a_z.jpg\" alt=\"Me at Bauhaus\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Me at Bauhaus by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/14192073830\"><img src=\"https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2920/14192073830_e66592def9_z.jpg\" alt=\"Me at Bauhaus\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nWe drank our coffee out front.  Bauhaus makes a damn good cappuccino.\r\n<a title=\"Cappuccino by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/14398865953\"><img src=\"https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5509/14398865953_fb8f14b17a_z.jpg\" alt=\"Cappuccino\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"C. at Bauhaus by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/14378674435\"><img src=\"https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3923/14378674435_efac2d1bea_z.jpg\" alt=\"C. at Bauhaus\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nMy only complaint? Look at the size of this spoon. Really, I require a little teaspoon to drink a little cappuccino.\r\n<a title=\"Little coffee, Big spoon by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/14377183472\"><img src=\"https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2937/14377183472_c71822a99b_z.jpg\" alt=\"Little coffee, Big spoon\" width=\"1005\" /></a>','8oz Cappuccino: a little Europe in Ballard  ','','publish','open','open','','8oz-cappuccino-a-little-europe-in-ballard','','','2014-06-09 06:44:18','2014-06-09 13:44:18','',0,'http://carolynemigh.com/?p=300',0,'post','',0),(301,2,'2014-06-08 17:59:48','2014-06-09 00:59:48','On Saturday morning I called my sister and asked her if she was up for a little adventure. She said, yes. Yes, just to be clear, is always the right answer. I told her we were going to track down a little Europe in Ballard. C. said to me: what does that mean? I said: you\'ll see.\r\n\r\nI picked her up and we stopped by BevMo and Fred Meyer. Neither of these stops were really related to pretending we\'re in Europe. We spent an embarrassingly long time in BevMo. Basically we walked up and down every isle of an over-sized liquor shop. commenting on all of the alcohol. In Fred Meyer, I picked up a crazy assortment of things: new pink nail polish, pickles, pickled veggies, green olives, balsamic vinegar, as well as an orange, a lemon and a lime. My sister spent the whole time laughing at me. I bought her a big bag of pretzels so I think we\'re even now.\r\n\r\nThen we drove back to Ballard.  I found a spot and parallel parked perfectly on the first try.  We walked by Mr Gyros and I said: let\'s stop for a falafel sandwich.  We decided to split one. It was perfect and even better was the fact that we stopped by at like 2:45 and the shop closes at 3pm so we were inside eating falafel and watching other people get turned away. Your disappointment at being denied Mr Gyros makes my falafel sandwich taste that much sweeter. (Yes, I\'m a horrible person.)\r\n\r\nWe wandered down the street to Bauhaus Coffee. We ordered little cappuccinos because we were pretending to be in Europe. I ordered 8 oz. which seems pretty spot on for Europe. C. ordered the 12 oz. cappuccino. I raised my eye at her--that\'s too big to European. She gave me this look: I\'m not actually in Europe. I am in Ballard.\r\n\r\nI let it go.\r\n\r\nWe drank our coffee out front.  Bauhaus makes a damn good cappuccino.\r\n\r\nMy only complaint? Look at the size of this spoon.','8oz Cappuccino: a little Europe in Ballard  ','','inherit','open','open','','300-revision-v1','','','2014-06-08 17:59:48','2014-06-09 00:59:48','',300,'http://carolynemigh.com/300-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(302,2,'2014-06-09 06:43:47','2014-06-09 13:43:47','On Saturday morning I called my sister and asked her if she was up for a little adventure. She said, yes. Yes, just to be clear, is always the right answer. I told her we were going to track down a little Europe in Ballard. C. said to me: what does that mean? I said: you\'ll see.\r\n<a title=\"Bauhaus Ballard by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/14192187947\"><img src=\"https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2922/14192187947_66e860f5f3_z.jpg\" alt=\"Bauhaus Ballard\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI a lucky that my sister is a good sport. A really good sport.\r\n\r\nI picked her up and we stopped by BevMo and Fred Meyer. Neither of these stops were really related to pretending we\'re in Europe. We spent an embarrassingly long time in BevMo. Basically we walked up and down every isle of an over-sized liquor shop. commenting on all of the alcohol. In Fred Meyer, I picked up a crazy assortment of things: new pink nail polish, pickles, pickled veggies, green olives, balsamic vinegar, as well as an orange, a lemon and a lime. My sister spent the whole time laughing at me.\r\n\r\nI bought her a big bag of pretzels so I think we\'re even now (but maybe I should have bought her two bags to be on the safe side).\r\n\r\nThen we drove back to Ballard.  I found a spot and parallel parked perfectly on the first try. I\'ve never owned a car in my adult until moving to Seattle in October so things like this still bring me joy. Frankly, I hope they always will.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Mr Gyros by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/14192297547\"><img src=\"https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5534/14192297547_032fd749ac_z.jpg\" alt=\"Mr Gyros\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Falafel Sandwich at Mr Gyros by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/14377795164\"><img src=\"https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3852/14377795164_0371d4193d_z.jpg\" alt=\"Falafel Sandwich at Mr Gyros\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe walked by Mr Gyros and I said: let\'s stop for a falafel sandwich.  We decided to split one. It was perfect and even better was the fact that we stopped by at like 2:45 and the shop closes at 3pm so we were inside eating falafel and watching other people get turned away. Your disappointment at being denied Mr Gyros makes my falafel sandwich taste that much sweeter. (Yes, I\'m a horrible person.)\r\n\r\nHalf a falafel sandwic later, we wandered down the street to Bauhaus Coffee. We ordered little cappuccinos because we were pretending to be fancy and European.\r\n<a title=\"Menu at Bauhaus by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/14355633816\"><img src=\"https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3884/14355633816_3c7defc82f_z.jpg\" alt=\"Menu at Bauhaus\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Coffee cups at Bauhaus by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/14377768514\"><img src=\"https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3900/14377768514_8a73eb421c_z.jpg\" alt=\"Coffee cups at Bauhaus\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nI ordered 8 oz. which seems pretty spot on for Europe. C. ordered the 12 oz. cappuccino. I raised my eye at her--that\'s too big to European. She gave me this look: I\'m not actually in Europe. I am in Ballard.\r\n\r\nI let it go.\r\n<a title=\"Chairs at Bauhaus by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/14375365521\"><img src=\"https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3850/14375365521_b50f860db1_z.jpg\" alt=\"Chairs at Bauhaus\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Me at Bauhaus by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/14398819233\"><img src=\"https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5278/14398819233_4444a6a11a_z.jpg\" alt=\"Me at Bauhaus\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Me at Bauhaus by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/14192073830\"><img src=\"https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2920/14192073830_e66592def9_z.jpg\" alt=\"Me at Bauhaus\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nWe drank our coffee out front.  Bauhaus makes a damn good cappuccino.\r\n<a title=\"Cappuccino by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/14398865953\"><img src=\"https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5509/14398865953_fb8f14b17a_z.jpg\" alt=\"Cappuccino\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"C. at Bauhaus by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/14378674435\"><img src=\"https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3923/14378674435_efac2d1bea_z.jpg\" alt=\"C. at Bauhaus\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nMy only complaint? Look at the size of this spoon. Really, I require a little teaspoon to drink a little cappuccino.\r\n<a title=\"Little coffee, Big spoon by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/14377183472\"><img src=\"https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2937/14377183472_c71822a99b_z.jpg\" alt=\"Little coffee, Big spoon\" width=\"1005\" /></a>','8oz Cappuccino: a little Europe in Ballard  ','','inherit','open','open','','300-revision-v1','','','2014-06-09 06:43:47','2014-06-09 13:43:47','',300,'http://carolynemigh.com/300-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(303,2,'2014-06-09 06:44:35','2014-06-09 13:44:35','On Saturday morning I called my sister and asked her if she was up for a little adventure. She said, yes. Yes, just to be clear, is always the right answer. I told her we were going to track down a little Europe in Ballard. C. said to me: what does that mean? I said: you\'ll see.\r\n<a title=\"Bauhaus Ballard by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/14192187947\"><img src=\"https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2922/14192187947_66e860f5f3_z.jpg\" alt=\"Bauhaus Ballard\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\n\r\nI a lucky that my sister is a good sport. A really good sport.\r\n\r\nI picked her up and we stopped by BevMo and Fred Meyer. Neither of these stops were really related to pretending we\'re in Europe. We spent an embarrassingly long time in BevMo. Basically we walked up and down every isle of an over-sized liquor shop. commenting on all of the alcohol. In Fred Meyer, I picked up a crazy assortment of things: new pink nail polish, pickles, pickled veggies, green olives, balsamic vinegar, as well as an orange, a lemon and a lime. My sister spent the whole time laughing at me.\r\n\r\nI bought her a big bag of pretzels so I think we\'re even now (but maybe I should have bought her two bags to be on the safe side).\r\n\r\nThen we drove back to Ballard.  I found a spot and parallel parked perfectly on the first try. I\'ve never owned a car in my adult until moving to Seattle in October so things like this still bring me joy. Frankly, I hope they always will.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Mr Gyros by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/14192297547\"><img src=\"https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5534/14192297547_032fd749ac_z.jpg\" alt=\"Mr Gyros\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Falafel Sandwich at Mr Gyros by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/14377795164\"><img src=\"https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3852/14377795164_0371d4193d_z.jpg\" alt=\"Falafel Sandwich at Mr Gyros\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe walked by Mr Gyros and I said: let\'s stop for a falafel sandwich.  We decided to split one. It was perfect and even better was the fact that we stopped by at like 2:45 and the shop closes at 3pm so we were inside eating falafel and watching other people get turned away. Your disappointment at being denied Mr Gyros makes my falafel sandwich taste that much sweeter. (Yes, I\'m a horrible person.)\r\n\r\nHalf a falafel sandwic later, we wandered down the street to Bauhaus Coffee. We ordered little cappuccinos because we were pretending to be fancy and European.\r\n<a title=\"Menu at Bauhaus by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/14355633816\"><img src=\"https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3884/14355633816_3c7defc82f_z.jpg\" alt=\"Menu at Bauhaus\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Coffee cups at Bauhaus by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/14377768514\"><img src=\"https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3900/14377768514_8a73eb421c_z.jpg\" alt=\"Coffee cups at Bauhaus\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nI ordered 8 oz. which seems pretty spot on for Europe. C. ordered the 12 oz. cappuccino. I raised my eye at her--that\'s too big to European. She gave me this look: I\'m not actually in Europe. I am in Ballard.\r\n\r\nI let it go.\r\n<a title=\"Chairs at Bauhaus by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/14375365521\"><img src=\"https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3850/14375365521_b50f860db1_z.jpg\" alt=\"Chairs at Bauhaus\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Me at Bauhaus by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/14398819233\"><img src=\"https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5278/14398819233_4444a6a11a_z.jpg\" alt=\"Me at Bauhaus\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Me at Bauhaus by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/14192073830\"><img src=\"https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2920/14192073830_e66592def9_z.jpg\" alt=\"Me at Bauhaus\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nWe drank our coffee out front.  Bauhaus makes a damn good cappuccino.\r\n<a title=\"Cappuccino by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/14398865953\"><img src=\"https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5509/14398865953_fb8f14b17a_z.jpg\" alt=\"Cappuccino\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"C. at Bauhaus by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/14378674435\"><img src=\"https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3923/14378674435_efac2d1bea_z.jpg\" alt=\"C. at Bauhaus\" width=\"100%\" /></a>\r\nMy only complaint? Look at the size of this spoon. Really, I require a little teaspoon to drink a little cappuccino.\r\n<a title=\"Little coffee, Big spoon by Carolyn, on Flickr\" href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/14377183472\"><img src=\"https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2937/14377183472_c71822a99b_z.jpg\" alt=\"Little coffee, Big spoon\" width=\"1005\" /></a>','8oz Cappuccino: a little Europe in Ballard  ','','inherit','open','open','','300-autosave-v1','','','2014-06-09 06:44:35','2014-06-09 13:44:35','',300,'http://carolynemigh.com/300-autosave-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(304,2,'2014-06-09 13:37:02','2014-06-09 20:37:02','Seattle is a city that loves coffee but in large part it seems to be the bigger the better--larger sizes and more shots of espresso. I have a sense that there might be a shift in this mentality in some of the smaller craft coffee shops in the city but at this point it seems to be the exception to the rule. \n\nEuropeans pride themselves on their coffee habits. Smaller sizes--think 4, 6, or 8 oz.--and sitting down to drink said coffee in a cafe. \n\nHow to drink coffee like a European? \n\n1. Pick one of these three classics: a short coffee, a long coffee or a cappuccino.\n2. Add a side of water. In some cafés around Europe this is standard. Your coffee comes on a silver tray--coffee, tiny spoon, a tiny cookie on the saucer of your coffee and a glass of water. If you really want to up you game, order sparkling water. The bubbles make this water fancier than still water. \n3. Sit outside at a tiny bistro table on the sidewalk with your body turned toward the street. Part of drinking your coffee is being seen. \n4. Under no circumstances should you take your coffee to go. Who does that?! Heathens. That\'s who. Having a coffee alfresco--or otherwise--is having time. \n5. Old school Europe also encourages one to smoke a cigarette after his or her coffee but truthfully I think this habit is falling off with the influx of new anti-smoking laws. And if you ask me, that\'s just fine. \n\nThe downside of drinking coffee in Europe? \n\n1. Surly waiters. No one makes and serves coffee as cheerfully as Americans. \n2. Sometimes the coffee is bitter and requires sugar to drink it. It\'s not clear to me how carefully or how often some espresso machines are cleaned. \n3. The best seats are taken. \n4. Not all cafés serve breakfast pastries but almost all of them serve cake!','How to drink coffee like a European','','publish','open','open','','how-to-drink-coffee-like-a-european','','','2014-06-09 13:37:02','2014-06-09 20:37:02','',0,'http://carolynemigh.com/?p=304',0,'post','',1),(305,2,'2014-06-09 13:37:02','2014-06-09 20:37:02','Seattle is a city that loves coffee but in large part it seems to be the bigger the better--larger sizes and more shots of espresso. 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Friends who would book the first flight out of Sofia at the end of the work week and the late night flight back home again on Sunday so that we had as much time as possible to explore--who needs sleep, when there\'s so much to see? \n\nI think that this concentration of energy, passion and excitement is generally the exception as most circumstances don\'t support it. To live abroad with other expats who have the same vacations you do, who basically make the same amount of money as you do and who in large part are living abroad because they want to explore, travel and experience new things makes for a pretty stellar combination. \n\nBut look at me go, I\'m taking my first State-side trip. 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Friends who would book the first flight out of Sofia at the end of the work week and the late night flight back home again on Sunday so that we had as much time as possible to explore--who needs sleep, when there\'s so much to see? \n\nI think that this concentration of energy, passion and excitement is generally the exception as most circumstances don\'t support it. To live abroad with other expats who have the same vacations you do, who basically make the same amount of money as you do and who in large part are living abroad because they want to explore, travel and experience new things makes for a pretty stellar combination. \n\nBut look at me go, I\'m taking my first State-side trip. Denver here I come!','Denver and thoughts about travel','','inherit','open','open','','306-revision-v1','','','2014-06-11 16:36:41','2014-06-11 23:36:41','',306,'http://carolynemigh.com/306-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(309,2,'2014-06-17 07:44:03','2014-06-17 14:44:03','My weekend in Denver was loads of fun. My friends N. & B. are doing super between a recent-ish move to the city, challenging jobs that they seem to really like, a new home and a cookbook. Wow! \n\nI found myself so happy for them. They were just radiating energy. It was (and is) contagious. In fact, I\'ve had an overwhelming urge to cook everything in N.\'s new book. The only problem with that? I have an awful lot of leftovers. His cookbook: <a href=\"http://www.macheesmo.com/love-leftovers/\">Love Your Leftovers</a>.  \n\nI didn\'t know what to expect from Denver but I have to say, l loved it. Everyone was exceedingly nice, the city was very easy to navigate and the weather?! 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We are fighting over birth control--in a country that is failing to provide a high quality education to everyone and our children can\'t keep pace with the rest of the world.\r\n\r\nUg. This whole thing is disgusting.\r\n\r\nThe only redeeming thing to come from all of this? Ruth Bader Ginsburg\'s dissenting opinion. You can read the whole thing <a title=\"Supreme Court Ruling\" href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/06/supreme-court-hobby-lobby-ruling-document\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>. Ginsburg\'s dissent starts on page 60 and while t is dense is beautifully written and carefully argued. (Thanks Wittenberg for my liberal arts education, a minor in Political Science and the course on Civil Liberties and the Constitution. I may not be a lawyer but I can still read a decision with the best of them.)\r\n\r\nThe fact that she has to write this infuriates me.\r\n\r\nWhat\'s the big deal? Woman have bodies. Women have sex. 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This whole thing is disgusting.\r\n\r\nThe only redeeming thing to come from all of this? Ruth Bader Ginsburg\'s dissenting opinion. You can read the whole thing <a title=\"Supreme Court Ruling\" href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/06/supreme-court-hobby-lobby-ruling-document\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>. Ginsburg\'s dissent starts on page 60 and while t is dense is beautifully written and carefully argued. (Thanks Wittenberg for my liberal arts education, a minor in Political Science and the course on Civil Liberties and the Constitution. I may not be a lawyer but I can still read a decision with the best of them.)\r\n\r\nThe fact that she has to write this infuriates me.\r\n\r\nWhat\'s the big deal? Woman have bodies. Women have sex. Woman can and should be able to prevent pregnancy if this is what they want to do. 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