Elliott Bay

Real talk, my apartment building can get a little The Hills Have Eyes -y what with all the strangers lurking in the basement floor, and the general dilapidatedness a hundred-year-old building comes with (here's looking at you mold farm on my bathroom ceiling). But it does come with some perks that evens the keel- mainly I see a volcano outside my kitchen window and I'm a stones throw away from the Bay. For a kid that grew up in a city her whole life, you have no idea how cool that is. I love falling asleep and hearing the curtains flap in the evening breeze, smelling the light, salty wind blowing in from across the water. And seeing how Tom and Lina grew up on...