Published in November 2019

In November, the whole family went to Hong Kong, where the girls met their kung fu teacher’s teacher and trained with him. Because if you have a kung fu master in China, you don’t miss the chance to train with him. It was a working vacation for me, which means I didn’t write anything for this blog while I was gone, but I kept up with my paid deadlines. Read on to see what was published in November.

Avvo

I wrote this article on unemployment so long ago, I forgot about it. Then it published days before I left for Hong Kong, and I only discovered it when I started writing this post.

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Earth911

Continuing my series on what happens to garbage after it gets picked up at the curb: How Incineration Works.

Completing the series: How Curbside Recycling Works. I wrote about Ridwell, a new company that aims to make it easier to recycle the stuff you can’t just toss in the bin. I’m thinking about signing up.

I read this report that predicted the collapse of cattle-based industries, dairy and beef. And even though I believe vegetarianism is more sustainable and fake meat is here to stay, I couldn’t quite buy the results.

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ParentMap

I’m more of a free-range parent than a worrywart, but that doesn’t mean I disregard safety. For ParentMap, I talked to an expert at Children’s Hospital about Home Safety, from disaster prep to home fire drills.

Always an advocate for introducing kids to the arts, I wrote about Pacific Northwest Ballet’s family-friendly Story Time season subscription.

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Seattle Times

I’ve wanted to write about the mystique of box seats for so long. Last year I pitched the idea to half a dozen publications, but no one bought it. Finally I decided to just write about it on my blog, and did the preliminary research for a blog post. Then I got really busy with freelance work, and never wrote it up. By that time I had started to write for Seattle Times, and I realized I never pitched the idea to them. So I did, and they bought it, and it was so much fun to research and write. I hope readers got even a fraction as much enjoyment from What’s in the Box? as I got from writing it.

I also wrote up a list of family friendly arts events taking place in November. Some of them run into December, so it’s worth checking out if you’re local.

It was less fun to write my first obituary. Knowing that people use obituaries as an official record of someone’s life, and having to pester bereaved family members (instead of PR types who are trying to get the word out about something) really felt like a lot of pressure. But I’m glad I got to learn about local theater pioneer Douglas Barnett.

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Crooked Road Blog

I published 13 posts on this blog in November. A lot of them were about Pacific Northwest Ballet’s November program. Unsurprisingly, so were most of the most popular posts in November. The most read posts were:

F O I L – Locally Sourced at PNB – It was exciting to see a local female choreographer performed at PNB, and it’s exciting to see people were interested in reading about it.

Love and Loss – Locally Sourced at PNB – It’s no surprise that people were interested in reading about a new ballet by Donald Byrd.

Locally Sourced at PNB – This was my overview of Locally Sourced, the program that contained F O I L and Love and Loss.

Tarantella and The Moor’s Pavane – This was not part of Locally Sourced, so I’m surprised to see it on this list. But I think one of the top 3 posts did link back to this performance from last season, so maybe that’s why?

The Looney Toons World of Marriage of Figaro – The connection between Bugs Bunny and Mozart is perennially popular.

Referrals

People are mostly finding this page through Twitter, Facebook, and my author bio link on Earth911.com.

I really miss looking at the fun search queries that bring people here, but I can’t even find that data anymore.