We know it's a little early in the morning to start thinking about frozen treats, but we wanted to make sure you were got in while the getting is good. Because today, your neighborhood 7-Eleven is going to be overrun with kids on summer break, anxious soccer moms and people who just really like free stuff. Yup, it's Free Slurpee Day at the world's largest operator of convenience stores. more ›

Seattlest's childhood summers were for three things: camping, sleeping late, and reading. The latter was the most pervasive. We borrowed stacks of ambitiously thick books at a time from the Lake Hills library--a bike ride through the greenbelt away--and we'd burrow somewhere comfortable to read for long hours. We inhaled books, goldfish crackers, and pina colada-flavored slurpees from the corner store during those summers like there was no tomorrow, because back then, it was almost like there really wasn't. At least, there wasn't a tomorrow we needed to concern ourselves terribly with--as long as we had a good book waiting. more ›