My hiking experience in the Issaquah Alps began with Cougar Mountain. But in 1998 we purchased a house much further south and over time became acquainted with the Southeast-most Alp, Taylor Mountain. My affection for Taylor was a slow grow. My heart was still in Cougar Mountain, for which I published the official guidebook in
I thought Field of Dreams was a really strange movie when I saw it. I’m not sure I remember it correctly. But the resonance of a piece of art is sometimes unrelated to your appreciation of it at the time. The phrase “Build It and They Will Come” (applied in the movie to Kevin Costner’s
Better put: boring lives achieve more. I spend a large portion of a typical week in one room, a beautifully equipped 220 square foot music studio with 11 guitars, a drum set, a 88 key synthesizer and a full recording setup. My house is on the same road as my studio, 7 miles south. I