As many of you will now know, the author of this blog, John Perreault, passed away unexpectedly on Sunday, September 6. I first got to know John in the late 1990s when he came to the Pilchuck School north of Seattle on a press outing we were both attending, and we hit it off. He had the gift of keen insight, delivered wryly and in an often slightly naughty, conspiratorial way, as if he had just let you in on a self-evident truth that others weren't yet admitting to. I liked him … [Read more...]