I have been waiting at urgent care for almost four hours and I feel like I'm in hell.

BREAKING: SPD Interim Police Chief Sue Rahr fires SPD Officer Kevin Dave for his hitting and killing of 23-year-old Jaahnavi Kandula. Rahr says she couldn't accept the "consequences of his dangerous driving." thestranger.com/news/2025/01/0…

I'm in Olympia this morning ahead of the state legislative session, but here's my newest for The Urbanist. Turns out Kevin Dave had another "preventable" traffic accident on the job in Seattle less than a year and a half before he hit and killed Jaahnavi Kandula.

An important but deeply difficult read.

Listening to Seattle's public safety committee meeting this morning on the new less lethal weapons ordinance. So far all the public commenters oppose this legislation.

CM Saka has now brought up twice now how he asked to have blast balls deployed upon him but the Mayor's Office said no. 😂

Too true. There are things that happen in real life that I could never include in a novel because it would read as too implausible. 😂

From a new piece in the NYT. This is why I don’t have patience for Neil Gaiman’s collaborators to “process,” especially since we’ve already known for months. It’s horrific that his agents continue to represent him and it’s horrific that his collaborators continue to stay silent.

Surprising no one, I couldn't resist writing about the Washington budget: what's going on with the deficit and options for filling the gap.

Still recovering from the shade of this tweet.

I don't think it was pain that made him so great, I think painting brought him whatever happiness he had. * RIP David Lynch

There will be a public forum for the candidates for the vacant District 2 position on Seattle City Council on 1/21 at 5:30pm at Columbia City Theater. It's being hosted by Seattle CityClub.

My latest for The Urbanist, in which I cover the most recent developments with Seattle's new less lethal weapons legislation, as well as few surprising things that councilmembers said at the public safety meeting on Tuesday.

As a somatic trauma therapist, I wish people could throw on some mourning clothes For regular non-traumatic grief, it can take about a year to get through the worst of the grief. Complicated grief takes longer It’s not fair people are expected to “get over it” in 30-60 days