decorabilia

At just over 19 months, Carsten, pictured above, not only has fantastic hair, but an ever-expanding vocabulary. For the sake of history, h...

Until a few days ago, it had been an up-and-down year for my Public Forum squad. Back in 2013, we had not one, but two teams preparing for ...

In 2006, the Seahawks lost the Super Bowl. In 2006, Walter Jones cleared lanes for Shaun Alexander and pass protected for "We want th...

You are going to die. Don't be scared. (Unless you are Shakespeare's greatest waffler .) There are two basic options, vis-à-vi...

The other day, we made borscht. Well, beet soup, really, as "borscht" has a certain charm that "beet soup" just doesn...

I'm back. I should say: we're back. I never anticipated reviving decorabilia , but with my wife's encouragement and blessi...

If you hadn't already heard via Twitter, this is the official announcement: I'm getting out of blogging. Thus endeth decorabilia . ...

[first installment here ]

Things have been awful quiet around here, and for good reason: I've been on the road, enjoying the best barbecue the country has to offe...

On what promises to be a completely awesome evening, Guerilla Running is hosting the first ever 4K Moon Run / Walk this Saturday, July 9th,...

With summer commencing, if not weatherly, at least calendrically and vocationally, I was ready to write a series of blog posts on some tidbi...

Last Saturday marked the end-of-the-year celebration for CHS's Speech and Debate team. It's a celebration I've come to relish. W...

Yesterday's Science Carnival at The Evergreen State College brought a lot of science, and a little bit of carnival, to the public. The ...

After school. The phone rings. I answer it, trepidatious. "Hi, this is [redacted] from Wal-Mart, hoping to talk with you about [reda...

The Rundown Last night's Olympia Awesome Film Festival , the first ever, showcased the talents of twenty filmmakers from all over the U...

Recently my life outside of decorabilia has become, paradoxically, both simpler and more complex, and I'll write about it when I'm ...

When my sister told me that she had three free tickets for the SecondStory Repertory's production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spell...

Everyman is about to die, and Death wants a reckoning. Not wanting to go it alone, Everyman asks friends, relations, and others to assist ...

This weekend, I was fortunate to hear--experience--the mastery of a twenty-year veteran of the didgeridoo, Ondrej Smeykal, at the Matrix ...

Wonder if I could ever find myself in this situation: For all his life, 95-year-old Leland Davidson had been what you might call an undocu...