July 2019

West Seattle’s classiest baby shower

By Kelsey Diller

West Seattle just had its classiest baby shower in a secret garden venue, still unknown to most West Seattle natives. The stage was set with a garden fountain, the little white house, flowers from Pikes Place Market, specialty cheeses from Husky’s Deli and handmade cakes as the seventeen guests arrived.

I thought this day would never come after 16 years of marriage, this will be our first child. The day was so perfect, it was in stark contrast to the long road of miscarriages and the traumatic emergency surgery that had preceded it. In between the fear of trying again we lived to the fullest, having the opportunity to travel to Greece, England, France, Italy, Switzerland and the Marietas Islands. I founded and ran a company downtown Seattle with 50 people and my husband worked full time while studying for 10 years to achieve his Instrument Commercial Helicopter License.

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Try this Cuddle

By Peggy Sturdivant

There could not have been more hugging at the event. Even if the occasion wasn’t a launch party for a web series about a Cuddle Therapist there was a lotta lotta love in the lobby and screening room of Northwest Film Forum.  Although written and created by Los Angeles writer Adeline Colangelo the launch of cuddletheseries.com felt homegrown, from seed to full bloom on a Thursday night. (If you saw huggers at Ballard Farmer’s Market on Sunday, June 23rd you get the idea).

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Teed off by possible golf giveaway?

By Jean Godden

     As a kid, I caddied for my dad in winter when he returned home from charting waters off the North Coast of Alaska, and longed to play a round of golf. He persevered even when we occasionally found snow on the course and had to substitute a red golf ball for easy spotting.

    But worse than snow conditions were wintertime hazards we faced at the old Meadowbrook Golf Course. Holes sometimes were underwater, flooded by rain-swollen Thornton Creek. The course was so problematic, that it later became the site of Nathan Hale High School, a building partly funded by Seattle Parks & Recreation in exchange for city acquisition of adjacent parklands.

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