Ask anyone who has traded a downtown desk for a north-side one, and they will tell you the best part of the day is the one that used to be the drive. You get filled up with leaded at the corner café, watch a sun-break cut through the clouds around ten, and realize you never…
Author Archives: Dianne S.
Aug
05
2026
By late August, most dog owners have the same routine down. Walk early, wait out the heat of the day, and save the river for the evening, when it finally cools off. These are the real dog days of an Inland Northwest summer, and they're easier to enjoy when you know where to…
Jul
03
2026
You can feel the shift before the calendar confirms it. One morning in late July, the gray lifts during a long sun-break, the kids next door are back on their bikes by nine, and the water that ran bone-cold through spring finally loses its edge. That first honest 75-degree day is when summer truly clocks in around here, and…
Jun
13
2026
You don't really expect it the first time. You're heading north on Monroe, maybe running an errand, and suddenly there's a thirty-foot wall of watermelons and sailboats staring back at you. A block later, another mural. Then another. Keep going and you'll end up in the Garland District, where the old theater marquee glows like something out of a 1950s postcard and the alley behind the…
Jun
03
2026
Some mornings, the best thing about working from the Inland Northwest is the commute: ten steps to the kitchen, a thermos of your best leaded brew, and a window facing a sky that might just be showing off. This area has easily become a natural landing spot for professionals who want a real career and a real life, without having to choose…
May
06
2026
Good news: you picked the right neighborhood to be hungry in. May arrives in North Spokane with longer evenings, open patios, and the kind of collective energy that says ‘yes, let's actually go out tonight’. If you have been browsing apartments in North Spokane, the food scene here is one of the first things that will make this place feel like home. Washington takes…
May
01
2026
There's a specific moment every spring when everything shifts into something you didn't quite expect. One morning you're grabbing a coffee and the lilacs are suddenly out, or you catch a sun-break on your way to work and realize you've been smiling for three blocks without knowing why. It happens fast, and if you're choosing to live in one of these North Spokane apartments, you're positioned about as well as anyone in the…