I was just in Seattle for the Joint Meetings and had dinner with an old friend. I asked her 15-year-old daughter, who’s lived in Seattle all her life, if she knew who Kurt Cobain was, and she looked at me with a slight tinge of recognition and said, “Did…. he play basketball?”

I do really love Seattle. I love the rocks coming out of the water, I love the pointy trees. Breath of happiness whenever I show up there.