Category Archives: Mavericks

MUSEE de la CHASSE et de la NATURE

I love this place!

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We were looking for Santas and found Do Ho Suh’s Gate!

We decided to call Santa and set up a visit a couple of weeks early. We planned to bust a move to Guatemala in the winter break. So, the night before opening the presents, Naomi and Simone dusted the floor with flour, hoping to capture a … Continue reading

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He said, “Nobody gets out of here alive.”

Was there a moment in your life that calibrated you for everything after it? This was one of mine. The summer after high school, I enrolled in a choreography workshop at Harvard University. Bill T Jones, Arnie Zane, and Lucinda … Continue reading

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The 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 … Continue reading

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Why they were saying among themselves that it cannot be done, it was done.

“No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.” – Helen Keller Simone is working on a report about Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller. Though Helen … Continue reading

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The Artist Toolbox

I am having so much fun! I’m working on the television series, “The Artist Toolbox.” To find out when it is playing in your area, put your zip code in here:

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Which 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” that you stumble upon together during a neighborhood romp.  He says, these … Continue reading

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Half the Sky is both a brutal awakening and an unmistakable call to action. -Melinda Gates

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 like it.   … Continue reading

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Bringing Science to Science Fiction

Larry Dalton In 2000, Larry Dalton came over to the tower apartment to share his idea of creating a Research Center for “Materials Science and Devices” that would bring together material scientists from across the country to solve the hardest … Continue reading

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Are you stuffy? or The cost of Consumerism

Annie Leonard blogs about what went on inside Martin Luther King’s head as he weighed the case at 5AM as to whether or not he would get involved, and if he does step in, then how much, hmm, what to … Continue reading

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Snow 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 square, … Continue reading

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Naomi’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. I tried to weave ACT into whatever they asked about. “Yes, I DO love living downtown, especially … Continue reading

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Making body parts and firing madly!

The sign read “The Lieutenant of Inshmore contains strong language, adult themes, fog, gunshots, violence, torture, mayhem, and a lot of laughs.” I can handle a little fog but torture? Is the audience in danger? Can you tell what is … Continue reading

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The manufacturing of controversy about Evolution!

I like this article by Valerie Tarico about the manufacturing of controversy about evolution! The article points out that we have seen this insane manufacturing of controversy (manufactroversy) in the past. “The fact is, there is no scientific controversy about … Continue reading

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