Civics and Culture

  Two years ago I posted the first of these stories, which now number in the hundreds and stem from seven years of bus driving. The...

  As I woke a scruffy older sleeper at the U District terminal, he grumbled out something I think he intended to be derogatory. Something...

https://vimeo.com/102285611 The pianos in the park were an awesome program, and it's sad to see them go. But this is a great way to cherish...

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We're headed out to the Valley. I pull up to Martin Luther King Way, across from Franklin. It's a dingy gloom tonight. The dealers...

https://vimeo.com/102576638 A video of very patient Copenhagen drivers waiting for cyclists to do their thing before turning right.

Introduction Last month, in Moustiers Sainte Marie, France, I watched several shopkeepers return a lost young bird to a part of town closer to its natural...

  I see her brighten the bus stop as I pull up. Third and Union southbound, some time before midnight. Hers is a smile which...