Well, Folklife was too big thirty years ago, when Jenn was playing with Allspice and I was a band groupie, and it was reallytoo big when we finally left the Northwest twenty years ago. But, ya know, it is nice to get back there every few years, to listen to the music - both organized and buskers, to dance with people who knew us before we had children (now grown and on their own), and watch all of the kids who are out enjoying themselves on the Seattle Center lawn. Yeah, its a bitch to have to stand in line for a kielbasa or when there are no shady seats in the Northwest Court beer garden, but life is like that sometimes. Besides, all of my Folklife t-shirts are worn out.

Is that tall ship still docked at the base of Lake Union, and will there be a chantey sing?