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Total Posts
- Pollination and Propagation
- Windows that open
- Are there people inside the camera?
- Gallery
- What are you reading?
- Creation and Re-creation
- Favorite Restaurants
- MUSEE de la CHASSE et de la NATURE
- Handstand anyone? Cupcake with Sprinkles?
- Wallingford Greenway opens with a Kidical Mass Gathering
- A June day
- Surfing on her birthday
- Amber and Todd and baby Parker!
- April Fool’s Day Pranks
- Jumping into the pool
- Being four
- The new series of jewelry is selling at the SAM Store
- Howling the night away
- White blanket for the skyscrapers
- Making Friends with Every Gecko in Belize
- We were looking for Santas and found Do Ho Suh’s Gate!
- Living past 100… actively
- Homework in the Globe
- One way to work with fractions.
- Tickle Time
- Have you ever had to walk uphill all night to get to a bunny in trouble?
- Sunny reading
- “To play without passion is inexcusable” or Rascal and the Minnie Bergman’s Park.
- Inspiration is for Amateurs or The Olympic Sculpture Park
- When was the last time you hung out under the surface?
- Sleeping model
- Sand and water
- Being Plumb
- Three Plumb earrings
- Naomi at Catherine and Mike’s wedding
- The dream just floats up into her head.
- Two sisters outfit their digs and enjoy the design mishaps
- Chocolate Cake
- Jeanne gives us a gardening tip and Elinor visits.
- Bang Bang at Camp Casey
- The first-grade book club
- Chalking it up on the front porch
- He said, “Nobody gets out of here alive.”
- Crazy hair day at Evergreen
- Naomi’s party
- “You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.” or How many times have you been married …to the same person?
- A Furry Hammer met us on the sidewalk. Hello Nick Cave!
- Did your school teach insatiable desire, focus and the art of persuasion? Sir Ken Robinson & Seth Godin pipe in on what we should and should not be teaching.
- Naomi’s birthday is just around the corner.
- Selling pigs off a bike
- Simone’s book club
- The importance of vulnerability
- Easter 2011
- The Artist Toolbox – NOW for Season Two!
- Why they were saying among themselves that it cannot be done, it was done.
- The Artist Toolbox
- Carrying the world on your shoulders?
- IndieFlix
- The floating bakery
- Which moments do you remember?
- Naomi tells the story of Rosa Parks
- Half the Sky is both a brutal awakening and an unmistakable call to action. -Melinda Gates
- Bringing Science to Science Fiction
- A half century of kids playing with Circuitry
- Simone’s take on Dolphins
- How to have a lovely birthday.
- Are you stuffy? or The cost of Consumerism
- A sheet holding confetti and balloons
- Simone’s on the cover of Life Magazine in Shanghai
- They are so much fun!
- Airport Santa
- What is Santa’s favorite midnight snack?
- A party about stories
- Santa stopped by the tower.
- Round and round
- Ten Favorite toys!
- 14 GREAT Children’s books (7 for a 3 year old and 7 for a 6 year old)
- Violin
- Storytelling gathering for the holidays
- Kevin is making it safe to Gulp it down
- Massive art involving tens of thousands of individuals and best seen, in many cases, from outer space.
- Snow day or Ahhh L-I-F-E
- Are you honing in on the virtues or letting them slide? Honestly?
- "Failure is Impossible"
- A global beginning to the day
- Naomi’s KOMO tour of the Tower or “What was on the cutting room floor?”
- Art is never chaste.
- 115 "area ways" below the streets of Pioneer Square
- Hillary does Pier 30
- First time
- "Please Vote!" or Clinton’s in Town
- Mieraye, Obama and Murray or the President comes to town.
- Java with Senator Patty Murray and President Obama
- Making a Home in a Pyramid, 462 Feet Above Seattle
- Ending nuclear proliferation
- Making body parts and firing madly!
- Brunch with Margit, Ben, Sarah, Rob and Pascal or Hot Lava
- Simone’s laptop
- Why are you smilin’ like a rabbit in a briarpatch?
- You’re just jealous cause the voices only talk to me or "Pumpkin Head"
- A One Nation Sunday
- Instead of Driver’s Education, Children attend Biker’s Education
- Hot Lava
- Naomi at work
- Venture Capital Panel at Bell Harbor or "Due Diligence Live"
- Naomi & Annabel on their First Day at Evergreen School
- Claudette & Susan do Seattle
- Boogie All Day Long
- Monica, David, Sophie & Annabel come over.
- Seattle Center …our extended yard…
- Baby Pia
- Enjoy KT Niehoff’s “Relatively Real” from 2005
- wing span
- rock n roll camp
- Deluged in Seattle
- A Garage Sale detour enroute to the Reptile Zoo
- Occidental Market
- Ballard Commons
- Mama Mia
- Circumnavigating 100 feet from home court
- Limb to Limb
- The surface of the water at Moss Bay
- On Thursday We Were A Circus
- Zombie Parade or The sum was far greater than its parts
- Geocaching or There was Shakespeare at the Troll
- And besides, they are DISTINCT!
- How we ended up in the Smith Tower lighthouse?
- Birthday at 3700 feet
- There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man. -Winston Churchill
- Greenlake ships.
- Abbey Road
- Leaping McKinley
- Arne’s egg.
- Mazama Migration 2010
- PHOTO FRIDAY
- Grandma Elinor and Naomi
- Chinese Carving on the Bedroom door
- Event at Perkins Coie
- Heating Up
- Wiffling the afternoon away
- Josie Schembre channeling Josephine Baker & Isadora Duncan
- Nomadic kids
- Antigua back yard
- Pioneer schmoozing
- Merging collective experiences – AR from Blaise
- Daily Rituals or Off to School
- Dinner with the Strains across the Square
- Yelling at the TV
- Holiday 2009 or slinky on the hotel stairs
- Sweet and HORRIFYING! or A Whirling Deverish Halloween
- Elinor and Naomi enjoying the day.
- Pausing at Rhoad’s End
- Rhoads’ catch
- Gritty Oasis in Seattle or Beaching in Seattle
- Ferry on over to Vashon Island
- Knighted by chivalrous iron-clad warriors in Gasworks Park
- Therese and Dale and Serra
- The BIG DIG Treasure Hunt or Simone’s 5th or Great Traditions
- Naomi and paint
- Santa stopped by the tower a week early
- Jewel in the Oval Office (Sally Jewel)
- Boardman Lake
- Boardman Lake
- Annual Summer Sail
- Sailing
- Mazama hike with Ben and Margit and Naomi
- Brody’s brother arrives for tea party with Simone
- Her medium is gnarly. She works “in” plants.
- Take Your Time – Olafur Eliasson & Who’s afraid of Jasper Johns at Tony Shafrazi
- Fishing at twin ponds on crazy hair day at Evergreen School
- Home Depot or Cart Etiquette
- Susan Robb does the Lawrimore Project
- You Complete Me
- The manufacturing of controversy about Evolution!
- David and Naomi after work
- Legislation Trumps Jurisprudence “Deciphering the Siberian Wolf Code”
- The tribe aflight or Zander, Scott, David, Eric and Stefan leap together
- Double-wide jaunt through urban landscape
- Treasure Trails Nordic Snow day!
- Kidspace and The Getty Museum
- Simone and Naomi concerto
- Vitamin D
- Slithering or Rhoads’ End or Ahoy Mateys! or Sunset Boggie
- The Gorgeous Power of Seadragon
- Margit and Naomi meet
- Welcome Naomi!
- Terminal socializing
- Jessica, Blaine, Lucinda and Arno come over for dinner
- A Citizen of the United States!
- Wilfred and Elinor visit us in Sun Valley
- Simone sounds out
- Knocked up and low on carabiners or Enjoying Zion
- Saying I do.
Category Archives: Stories
Windows that open
This was probably taken in 1998. I had harnessed up and climbed out of one of the globe’s panel openings at the very top of the Smith Tower. I was thinking I would be able to lower myself down to … Continue reading →
MUSEE de la CHASSE et de la NATURE
I love this place!
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 →
The 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 everything together to show … Continue reading →
Posted in Education, Family, Naomi, Parenting, Simone, Stories
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Tagged Brene Brown, Catherine Schembre, Debbie Dubrow, Madcap, Monica Stephenson, Naomi, Petra, Simone, vulnerability
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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 →
Posted in Culture, Friends, Mavericks, Stories, Style, The Arts
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Tagged Petra, The Artist Toolbox, The Arts
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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 →
Posted in Art of Entertaining, Family, Friends, Gatherings, Mavericks, Naomi, Parenting, Parties, Science and Tech, Simone, Smith Tower, Stories
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Tagged Annie Strain, Downtown living, Jackson, Jeff Strain, Pioneer Square, Seattle Times, Undead Labs
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Naomi 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
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 →
Posted in Books, Culture, Family, Friends, Ideology, Mavericks, Naomi, Parenting, Politics, School, Simone, Stories, The Arts
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Tagged Amber, books, Half the Sky, Helen Keller, Heros, Melinda Gates, Nicholas Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn, Simone, stories
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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 →
Posted in Friends, Mavericks, Parties, Smith Tower, Stories
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Tagged David Stephenson, friends, Joe Heller, Kay Nosler, Kevin Joyce, life, Martha Enson, Monica Stephenson, Morrsion Building, Petra, snow, stories
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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 →
Posted in Culture, Family, Mavericks, Naomi, Simone, Smith Tower, Stories, The Arts
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Tagged ACT Theatre, Culture, KOMO news, Naomi, Smith Tower, The Arts, Tower
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Making 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 could use his extraordinary … Continue reading →
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Tagged Michael Tortorello, Smith Tower, Stuart Isett, The New York Times, Tower
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How 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 massive inventory of downtown … Continue reading →
Posted in Family, Friends, Gatherings, Smith Tower, Stories
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Tagged Dale Chihuly, David, Family, friends, gatherings, Jack Almo, LightHouse, Naomi, Petra, Pioneer Square, Rational Evenings, Samis, Simone, Smith Tower, Tower, William
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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 same age as Naomi. They … Continue reading →
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Tagged Annie Strain, Daniel Strain, David, Family, friends, Jackson Strain, Jeff Strain, Madeline Strain, Naomi, Petra, Pioneer Square, Simone
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Legislation Trumps Jurisprudence “Deciphering the Siberian Wolf Code”
On Saturday morning we headed North to Simone’s ski class at Snoqualmie. En route Simone asked me to turn on the radio. So I did and “Stop in the Name of Love” by Diana Ross came on. Simone said, “That … Continue reading →
Posted in Birthdays, Family, Friends, Gatherings, Naomi, Parenting, Parties, Simone, Smith Tower, Stories
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Tagged Scott, Simone, Ski lessons, Snoqualmie Pass, Zander
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A Citizen of the United States!
After five long years of rigamarole. Santino Luan becomes a Citizen. What a Day! From left to right, Petra (5 months pregnant), Santino and Meseret. Santino started life as a Dinka tribe cattle herder, fled war, wandered over 1,000 miles … Continue reading →
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Tagged Meseret, Petra, pregnant, Santino Luan
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