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The View From Nathan's Bus

The Boring Truths, Part II: “Boring” Addendum

After receiving an enormous amount of responses in a variety of places regarding the subject matter of a certain recent post, I wanted to add a few...

Compton, Gently

This was lifetimes ago. Summer of 2003, one year of high school remaining. I strolled the flatlands of Compton with camera in hand, up...

KVRU Interview: Nathan on Route 7 RapidRide

KVRU's Simon Kidde (a friend, and the son of another friend!) sits down with myself and Metro's Robyn Austin to discuss the impending transition...

Book Awards Event, 10/12: Free & Open to the Public

Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019, 7 – 9 p.m.Seattle Central Library, Level 1: Microsoft AuditoriumFree The title kind of says it all. It's like the Oscars,...

The Boring Truths (It’s Not That Bad)

This post is a care package for my colleagues and anyone else who was scared or otherwise put off by a recent spate of...

A Bus Driver Kind of Mind

Why do I love scruffiness, when I am not scruffy? Because these are the strangers who are consistently nicest to me, who treat me plainly,...

Strife in the Afternoon: Nathan on Fights

It all started so innocently. Each person meant well, but each had a stress inside them, a bitterness, that they turned on the others...

Book Talk with Nathan Today August 29th at 12:30pm

Hello, Urbanist friends. In the wake of my book being nominated for the Washington State Book Award, I'm having another book talk at the Greenwood Senior...