The Slice: Roads less traveled tend to lead to confusion

Slice reader Timothy Finneran asserts that it’s really not all that difficult to get lost while driving in and around Spokane.

“With all the road construction, along with detours, I’ve gotten confused many times, heading off onto routes and into neighborhoods that I had never been to before.”

You can’t keep bad news from a child forever: Got an email Monday morning from my former colleague Heather Lalley, who now lives in Chicago.

“Reminded The Kid he’d have a sitter tonight because dad and I are going to see Paul McCartney at Wrigley Field.”

She shared their exchange.

“Me: He was one of the guys in the Beatles.

“The Kid: Was? The Beatles aren’t still together?

“Me: No, honey, I’m sorry. The Beatles haven’t been together for a long time.

“The Kid: Awww, man. I really liked them.”

Slice answer: “Two things I love to be asked advice about are online dating and biking for women,” wrote Betsy Lawrence. “Online dating because I met my husband that way and learned how to do it well; biking because with my women’s biking group, Belles and Baskets, I meet many women who want to cycle more or become bike commuters, and don’t know what to buy or how to deal with helmet hair and I have loads of advice.”

Grandfather Forrest Schuck stands ready, if asked, to offer advice about child rearing. “Not that it’s ever happened.”

One small aspect of life in the Inland Northwest that could be improved: Becky Dueben wishes people here would stand back from the airport luggage carousels just a few feet, as she has observed travelers do in other places.

Technospeak: “While watching me take out my contacts the other day, one of my 5-year-old twins, Micah, asked me, ‘Are you taking out your iPods, Mom?’ ” – Sara Weaver-Lundberg

Today’s Slice question: Have you seen more butterflies this summer than in recent years?