A week before I was scheduled to leave for Norway, Reuben’s Brews announced the release of a new beer: Nordic Haze, a hazy IPA brewed with a historic Norwegian yeast. Clearly, it was time for the next installment of the Fremont Drinking Project.
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2019 Global Reading Challenge
The Global Reading Challenge is a Battle of the Books program for 4th and 5th graders enrolled in Seattle Public Schools. The ten Challenge books selected by Seattle librarians each year are varied in genre with a diverse cast of main characters and a disproportionate number of Newbery medals gracing their covers. That’s why I’ve tried to read all ten of them each year since I discovered the challenge when my oldest daughter was in second grade.
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Fremont Drinking Project
When we bought our house nearly 20 years ago, Fremont was Seattle’s funkiest neighborhood, famous for housing artists who couldn’t afford Capitol Hill. Ballard was known for fishing boats and elderly Norwegians. Our house was in the awkward space between those neighborhoods, an area affectionately known as Frelard. We assured ourselves that we really lived in Fremont. But even then, things were starting to change, and we joked that in 20 years we’d be trying to convince people that our house was actually in Ballard.
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Pinocchio at PNB
Every year the Pacific Northwest Ballet School performs a story ballet on the McCaw Hall stage as part of the Family Matinee Series. They rotate through three ballets. I’ve already seen and written about Hansel & Gretel and Snow White. This year I finally got to see Pinocchio.
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Pacific Northwest Ballet Director’s Choice 2019
A sudden rush of deadlines and a visit from out-of-state family meant that I didn’t get to prepare as thoroughly for Director’s Choice this year as I normally do. Fortunately, since my family were all visiting, I got to attend with a friend who is herself a dancer. She was happy to attend the pre-lecture and the Q&A afterwards. Plus, I was able to hear some of her insights, which are so much more informed than mine.