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Stories from Seattle: How Baking Helps Kate McDermott Cope

"As long as I can smell the yeast blooming, and the pie baking, I know that I’m OK."

Freshly baked apple pie.

Kate McDermott

Stories from Seattle: “Venues in Seattle are Going to Close”

Steven Severin, co-owner of Neumos, is fighting to keep the music alive

Neumos’ co-owner Steven Severin

Tricia Romano

Stories from Seattle: Italian Dream Vacation Cut Short by Coronavirus

La dolce vita in the Umbrian hills, followed by self-quarantine in Seattle

Panorama of the Umbrian

AJ Rathbun

Stories from Seattle: A Teen Photographer Finds Comfort Through Collaboration

A new Instagram space offers a refuge for young people navigating life in isolation

Photos by (and of) Sophia Chew

Sophia Chew

Portraits of Life Under Lockdown

Wondering what the city looks like while everyone's staying home and healthy? We sent our photographers to the streets

On March 16, which feels like an actual lifetime ago, staff photographers Hayley Young and Alex Crook set out to capture Seattle standing still. We were just at the beginning of the advisory to stay home in order to #flattenthecurve and slow the spread of the coronavirus outbreak. What does the city look like without…

Hayley Young & Alex Crook

Stories from Seattle: For Freelancers, Quarantine Isn’t Exactly New

"I feel helpless to do anything, except stay inside. Which is the same as it ever was."

Just a typical day in the office.

Tricia Romano

Stories from Seattle: Playwright and Performer Sara Porkalob on Hope, Anger, and Her Missed Broadway Opportunity

"Just like that, my entire community lost their jobs."

This is part of a series of personal essays we’re calling Stories from Seattle, contributed by our community and designed to show how the coronavirus pandemic is impacting the lives of Seattleites. Want to share your story, coping mechanisms, wildest ideas? We’d love to hear. Please email: chelsea.lin@tigeroak.com. On April 5, I was planning to leave Seattle for…

Sara Porkalob

Stories from Seattle: Letting Go of “Normal”

The key to survival: Lower your expectations, or get rid of them all together

Isolation then: More drooling, less homeschooling.

Chelsea Lin

Stories from Seattle: Dance Artist Kaitlin McCarthy on Coping with Coronavirus while Pregnant

"Dancing my way through the crowd, a spontaneous clapping and stomping erupted on the beat. One perfect moment of togetherness that, it turns out, may have been our last for a long while."

Kaitlin McCarthy dances with the audience of her show ‘Gender Reveal Party: a dance show,’ at Velocity Dance Center

Kaitlin McCarthy

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