Dinner with the Strains across the Square
Our neighbors, the Strains, live across Pioneer Square from us. We can wave or flashlight morse code from our windows. Annie Strain has a great blog about life in Pioneer Square. Jackson Strain is the...
View ArticleHow we ended up in the Smith Tower lighthouse?
One beautiful Seattle day, I looked up and was hypnotized by the pointy triangle on top of the Smith Tower. I contacted the Samis Foundation (owners) about taking a look at the upper floors of their...
View ArticleMaking a Home in a Pyramid, 462 Feet Above Seattle
Michael Tortorello wrote a nice piece about our place for The New York Times called “Making a Home in the Pyramid, 462 Feet Above Seattle.” It came out today and the photographer Stuart Isett said I...
View ArticleNaomi’s KOMO tour of the Tower or “What was on the cutting room floor?”
This KOMO news piece turned out well. In the hopes of championing ACT Theatre, which I love, I mentioned them dozens of times. Somehow I wove ACT into whatever they asked about. “Yes, I DO love living...
View ArticleSnow day or Ahhh L-I-F-E
Woke up for my morning run and look. These little dashes of fine powder are falling on Seattle. The first snow of the year. I have to get out there! The air is sharp. It’s 5:15am. Jogging around the...
View ArticleHalf the Sky is both a brutal awakening and an unmistakable call to action....
Our friend Amber Vandermeulen, a third grade teacher in the Kent school system, said that she and her husband had just read Half the Sky to one another on their last road-trip and she thought I might...
View ArticleNaomi tells the story of Rosa Parks
Naomi’s PreSchool class is working on a play about Rosa Parks. Naomi tells me about what they were learning here. Three year old Naomi tells the story of Rosa Parks
View ArticleWhich moments do you remember?
My neighbors and good friends, the Strains, were written up in the Seattle Times today. Jeff believes that living downtown proffers more family moments..those revelations, discoveries and “good times”...
View ArticleThe Artist Toolbox – NOW for Season Two!
With each week, we become more popular! The Artist Toolbox is now running 2 to 4 times a week in 227 PBS markets. We were the LA Times “Pick of the Week” again (fifth time) as well as covered in …...
View ArticleThe importance of vulnerability
Rob Harmon sent me a link to Brene Brown‘s TED speech and I laughed so hard. It was one of those cathartic crazy laughing things. Brene Brown takes us on her personal research journey and then pulls...
View ArticleDo Ho Suh’s Gate and Santa’s footprints
We decided to have Santa visit a couple weeks early to make time for our trip to Guatemala and Belize. Naomi and Simone dusted the floor with flour hoping to get some tracks from Santa’s boots or...
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