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Crazy hair day at Evergreen

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Naomi’s party

We made lanterns at Naomi’s birthday party. Pirate Naomi attacked the bull pinata with everything she had. And Annabel swung on the tire horse. Until Eli finally broke the pinata open and let the toys out. The party guests hanging … Continue reading

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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.

  Sir Ken Robinson believes that “we are educating people out of their creative capacities” and creating dysfunctional humans. The RSA animators are incredible! Thanks to Maggie Neilson, who posted the story on Facebook. Seth Godin believes that high schools … Continue reading

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IndieFlix

My friend Scilla Andreen is on The Film School board with me.  She runs a company she started with Carlo Scandiuzzi called IndieFlixs.  You can find great independent films on her website as well as a party game where everyone … Continue reading

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How to have a lovely birthday.

What a great birthday! Thank you! Breakfast in bed, the 1st grade book club and then friends over for a party. Debbie and Peyman, Monica and David, Margit and Ben, Andrea and Dana, joined David, Naomi, Simone and me for … Continue reading

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A sheet holding confetti and balloons

The girls went over to Trixie and Vivian’s house for a Disco New Year’s Party. Sarah and Scott Miller have been doing this for a few years and the kids love it. At 7pm there was a huge countdown and … Continue reading

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A party about stories

This party started off with the adrenaline and excitement of being together with good friends and conversations in the globe to catch up and share confidences, ambitions… the view. BUT Then, Tom Skerritt handed out movie scrips and assigned parts … Continue reading

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Violin

It was nerve wracking for sure. Simone considered not even going to school the day of the recital but when the time came for her to play…she did it.

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Storytelling gathering for the holidays

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Kevin is making it safe to Gulp it down

My friend Kevin Flick is heading up a team at PATH focused on creating a household water purification system for the third world. Prior to this Kevin worked at Microsoft designing game related devices and before that he designed prosthetics. … 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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Are you honing in on the virtues or letting them slide? Honestly?

My good friend Valerie Tarico writes a monthly column about developing virtues. She starts each post with a note about the particular character trait including a few quotes to ponder, discuss and share and then ends with an example of … Continue reading

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A global beginning to the day

Simone said, “Mom, Is it okay if I head up to the globe to do some reading?” Hope said, “What a great idea Simone. I’ll grab a book and join you.” My good friend, Hope, is visiting from Maryland for the week. … Continue reading

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Brunch with Margit, Ben, Sarah, Rob and Pascal or Hot Lava

The morning started in the backyard with Margit creating crowns from the giant leaves. Ben and Naomi were doing an improvisation about a family of animals. We seem to descend on Ben and Margit fairly frequently on Sunday mornings. Naomi … Continue reading

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Why are you smilin’ like a rabbit in a briarpatch?

We are fairly frequent visitors to the CLAMS house. Cora is 4, Liam is 5, Annie is the mom, Miela is a dog and Scott is the dad. Like their other parties, this one was wildly fun! The horse theme … Continue reading

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Claudette & Susan do Seattle

Claudette and Susan arrived in Seattle with a purpose.They wanted to visit the Sea Otters. Simone and Claudette watching the Skates and Sturgeons in the underwater dome. One of the fun things you can do at EMP is create a … Continue reading

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Boogie All Day Long

We’re in Santa Cruz visiting our good friends Kristin, Eric and Zoe. A mouthful of sand too! This was the second time on this vacation that Naomi found herself chopping on grit. About a week before, when leaping off the … Continue reading

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Monica, David, Sophie & Annabel come over.

As we share our ambitions for Mad Cap, we enjoy the Puget Sound. Mad Cap is the name we’ve given the new house Monica has rented and sublet to Debbie, Catherine and I. We are all Evergreen moms working on … Continue reading

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Seattle Center …our extended yard…

On a hot day, this fountain is our favorite. We yell our hearts out at first trying not to get wet and then once drenched, we squeal with delight as we up the ante and try to tag the dome. … Continue reading

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Baby Pia

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