Monday's postcard, and the other fires that keep me awake at night

August 5, 2024

The Emmons glacier on Mt. Tahoma

A long hot day, and a really bad dream

As some of my Facebook friends know, there was a fire at my apartment building last Wednesday—late afternoon during rush hour. I wasn’t there at the time, but I was en route on my bicycle, coming back from a swim in the river. The sky was blue; the temperature was 90 degrees.

When I g…