Category: The Seattle Times

Happy 2020! I left a job I loved after having Joseph, and after many years as a SAHM stumbled into the perfect niche: writing and shooting stories about fun places to go with kids. Which is what I’d be doing anyway, except I get paid for it. This year my baby will be ⁠— GULP ⁠— going…

Goldfish Swim School: 90 degree water, private changing rooms and $15/family

Nov 5, 2019

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Come on in, the water’s fine! No, actually, it’s better than fine. The 90-degree water in Goldfish Swim School’s pool is amazing. The thing I hate most about swimming is edging into a frigid pool. My husband always just jumps in, like ripping off a Band-aid, but I tiptoe in to prolong the misery. Once…

Bits of Boston: in The Seattle Times!

Sep 11, 2019

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My first Seattle Times byline!! Boston travel package ran in Sunday’s paper, and it’s online here. The week we spent in Boston was the longest and fanciest vacation we’ve ever had together. We saw so much of this fascinating city thanks to our Boston expert, who put together a super OCD itinerary for me because I…

Tulips and ponies

Apr 14, 2019

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For spring break we took a quick trip to HOLLAND to see those famous tulips! Gosh, what an epic day trip. I can’t get enough of those beautiful rows of blooms. This year we went to Tuliptown, which has smaller tulip fields than Roozengaarde, but it has a big grassy field for kite flying. .…

Perfect family getaway: Vancouver, B.C.

Mar 26, 2019

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What if you could travel to Asia without getting on an airplane? Booking flights for a family of four is prohibitively expensive, so my kids have never seen the country where Mom is from. The next best solution is packing stretchy pants and heading north to British Columbia. No cousins in Canada, but we did…

New play area at West Seattle’s High Point

Mar 21, 2019

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The High Point play area gets its name from – imagine this – its position at the highest point in Seattle. It’s 70 feet higher than Queen Anne or Capitol Hill, and this primo location just got a brand new playground. There’s a big climbing tower, monkey bars, a tent feature with rock-climbing grips, swings…

‘Balloonacy’ at SCT

Mar 21, 2019

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We had so much fun at opening night for “Balloonacy!” That play was practically custom-made for Joseph, world’s most balloon-obsessed kid. Here’s my review of the show on ParentMap.

Cherry blossom photo tips

Mar 5, 2019

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Here is this month’s ParentMap magazine cover! Cherry blossoms will reach peak bloom the third week of March this year. I wrote up some tips for taking pictures with the blossoms.

Salt dough ornaments

Dec 25, 2018

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