I got a tattoo on my recent trip to New Mexico. It was to commemorate the trip, but also to remind me of the years I lived there when I...

I’ve lived my life with the preconceived notion that marriage is merciless and malevolent, but it turns out I may have been wrong. I...

In Iceland, a tradition exists in which books are given as gifts on Christmas Eve and everyone spends the evening reading. Since I...

In this age of computerized library managements systems, gone are the little paper pockets containing date due cards and I miss them....

2016 was a particularly difficult year in the celebrity death department. 2017 isn’t looking much better. I was bummed when many of these...

A short story that I wrote some years ago as a tribute to Seattle music. Today I'm revisiting it as a tribute to Chris Cornell.

I planned on participating in #SEABookstoreDay for Independent Bookstore Day by going to the three north-of-Seattle bookstores that I...

UPDATE 6/23/2024—If you’re interested in reading the short story I reference in this post, you can now purchase a perfect-bound print...

The Goldfinch was on my to-read list for a long time, but I never picked up the book when I came across it because the cover didn’t do...

I’m a book lover. I love books. I love collecting books—the real ones that you can display on a shelf and hold in your hands. I love...