Your Gentle Author in Seattle, WA

I’m spending the last week or so of 2011 in the nation in which I was raised, starting in Seattle, WA then moving on to New York City, Rochester, and then my old stomping ground of Buffalo, NY. This has been a lucky year for work and friendship, affection and surprise. I just want to count my blessings, and stay ready. (Photo by Karen Vogel, taken in Mercer Street underpass near the EMP museum.)