Category: The Seattle Times
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Ice skating in Occidental Square
The Downtown Seattle Association hosted free ice skating with free skates this weekend in Occidental Square, even a free Uber ride to get there. Their goal was to lure people to the neighborhood, and hey, it worked on me. We hadn’t been to that part of the city since 2019. The rink was tiny and…
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How to photograph your home in the best light
We spend 95 percent of our time in the kitchen. Here’s how it looks camera-ready vs. how it actually looks most nights (an explosion of homework, groceries, dinner, dirty dishes). I talked to architectural photographers about how to photograph your home in the best light, and their number one tip was CLEAN IT UP. Here’s…
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Family adventure on the IMAX screen: ‘The Arctic’
I was very intimidated photographing a National Geographic photographer, but he turned out to be so easy-going. And of course, his kids were natural models. The film, “The Arctic: Our Last Great Wilderness,” just opened at the Pacific Science Center. We watched it on the IMAX screen and it is SO GOOD. Go! It’s playing…
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New bears at Woodland Park Zoo
We went to see the new grizzly bear cubs at Woodland Park Zoo. They’re both babies, less than a year old, and 200 and 150 pounds respectively! One was found wandering motherless in Alaska; the other cub’s mother was euthanized because she got too close to humans in Montana.
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Kringle’s Filling Station
These two have been talking about Kringle’s Filling Station for literally 11.5 months and they were SO excited to go again this year. It’s located at 83rd and Aurora, and $18 a person. There’s foosball, skee ball, plinko, ring toss, karaoke and a bean bag toss. Fewer games than last year, but we were won…
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‘Paddington Save Christmas’ at Seattle Children’s Theatre
Marmalade and teddy grahams for a pre-show snack… We got a sneak peak of “Paddington Saves Christmas” at SCT and that bear was just the cutest! The show runs through New Year’s Eve. Here’s a link to my review on ParentMap.
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AI exhibit at MOHAI
I wrote about MOHAI’s AI exhibit for The Seattle Times.The interactive stations were super fun. There’s an AI painter, a guess-your-age AI, speech-to-text recognition and more. Here’s a link to the story. Walking around South Lake Union afterward was great too!