Vacation is almost here, finally. Places I plan to be:

Okanogan (where my parents and aunt live)

Twisp (camping on the river with my mom's family)

North Cascades Smokejumper Base (looking for Uncle Dale)

Okanogan National Forest (day hiking, driving with Uncle Ernie[!])

Tonasket (hometown, visiting Shawn and my cousins)

Sky Cabins (never did find anyone to share it with us)

University of Washington (obligatory visit to alma mater)

Tugboat Challenger (our favorite B&B, lots of time spent watching the boat traffic on Lake Union)

Capitol Hill (birthday dinner on Broadway)

Tillicum Village (grade school field trip 25 years after the fact)

Blake Island State Park (Catherine got the "hiker's special" so we could spend the afternoon in the fresh air)

3:07 PM


Interesting books on the "new" shelf of the Undergraduate Library:

• Warren Leon, Is Our Food Safe? A Consumer's Guide to Healthy Choices
  
• Jeffrey Reiman, The Rich Get Richer & the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class & Criminal Justice
  
• Jennifer Par Talwar, Fast Food, Fast Track: Immigrants, Big Business, and the American Dream
  
• Maude Barlow, Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water
  
• Frank Clifford, Backbone of the World: A Portrait of the Vanishing West Along the Continental Divide
  
• Phyllis Chesler, Woman's Inhumanity to Woman
  
• Richard Rodriguez, Brown: The Last Discovery of America
  
• Andrew Kimbrell, The Fatal Harvest Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture
  
• Juliann Sivulka, Stronger Than Dirt: A Cultural History of Advertising Personal Hygiene in America, 1875-1940
  
• Nina C Leibman, Living Room Lectures: The Fifties Family in Film and Television