The View From Nathan's Bus

I'm giving a TEDx talk on May 4th. (!!!) The details will be updated here, at the home page for TEDxUofW.  I'll be intermittent on The Urbanist between now...

​Just a quick note of thanks today, as only he could say it~ "Listen. Listen," he said to me."Please," I answered."You got to stop!! You just about...

They were out there, figuring it out. A scruffy white van and a broke-down '90s-era red Ford Explorer stood on the roadside facing each other, doors...

So this is continued on from a recent post, in which I was listing a few positive moments I’d noticed of late. Wouldn’t you know...

With the saturation state of culture and media being what it is, modern life has become, more than ever, the act of editing. There...

---​*Trigger warning: discussions of street harassment and sexual assault.*--- A female friend of mine once got on my bus while being chased by a volatile...

You remember the old Breda trolley bus. Dinosaur is an apt descriptor not just because they were old, but because they were gigantic. Majestic. Capable, unpredictable, steeped with...

​Tuesday, January 15, 7pm. Elliott Bay Bookstore. Free. Details and directions here. Did you miss my book launch? Probably not, since there were a million people there......