stories from seattle

Stories from Seattle: During this Present Pandemic, We Are All Mourning the Future

Everyone wants to know when the pandemic will end. But perhaps a better question is: What will it look like to go on?

Possibility in general, it seems, has been cancelled.

Jessica Mooney

Stories from Seattle: The House With the Mossy Roof

While social distancing, I worried about my reclusive neighbor and how I might help a man I'd never met.

Abigail Carter had never seen her elderly neighbor. While social distancing, she worried how she might help him.

Abigail Carter

Stories from Seattle: How to Stay Put

Seattle photographer Ted Zee documents the way we are coping during the pandemic

Ted Zee chronicles how people are coping with the coronavirus outbreak

Ted Zee

Stories from Seattle: Surviving the COVID-19 Crisis Without Layoffs is No Easy Feat

A few years ago, Dan Price, the CEO of Gravity Payments gave his employees a raise to $70K. They returned the favor: “The employees bailed us out.”

Dan Price, the CEO of Gravity Payments who made headlines for setting his company’s base salary at $70K with his mom.

Tricia Romano

Stories from Seattle: What It’s Like to be a Seahawk During the Coronavirus Pandemic and Training for a Season that May Not Happen

Starting offensive guard D.J. Fluker: "I'm getting ready for the season because we don't really know when it's gonna happen."

Starting offensive guard D.J. Fluker: Still training for a season during the pandemic.

Tricia Romano

Stories from Seattle: An Ode to the Perfect Roommate

Keep your dogs and cats—quarantine life is best with a hamster.

Meet Peachy Keen.

Ellen Meny

Stories from Seattle: Introverts, It’s Our Time to Shine!

It’s our time to show the social animals how to do self-isolation with panache

Introverts are having a moment during Covid-19.

Trisha Kostis

Stories from Seattle: Play Until the Last Light

A Bainbridge writer pens a poem for the pandemic

A tree on a twilight walk through empty streets.

Cindy Vandersluis

Stories from Seattle: Practicing Philoxenia on the Front Lines of a Pandemic

A firefighter’s letter to a stranger

As firefighters, we are accustomed to facing fear on a regular basis. But I know of no one accustomed to facing pandemics. Our new fear is very real. At our firehouse on Seattle’s downtown waterfront, we know that every call that we go on could be the one that takes us out. We’ve been here…

Lance Garland

Stories from Seattle: Coming Home Has Never Felt So Good

"Our remodeled house is everything we hoped it would be; I just never imagined that our first weeks back would be spent here 24/7"

A study worthy of all these WFH hours.

Virginia Smyth

Stories from Seattle: A Grocery Store Clerk on What It’s Like to Work During COVID-19

"I never imagined that I would be 'essential' for anything."

Rachel Reeves is a cashier and a clerk at a local grocery store

Rachel Reeves

Stories from Seattle: Something to Keep Your Mind Off the News

Writer Drew Zandonella-Stannard launches a free text subscription service based on light-hearted laughs—just the thing we need right now

“The sign urges our neighbors to sign up for The Good List, even though it might pigeonhole me as the local eccentric shut-in.”

Drew Zandonella-Stannard

Stories from Seattle: Living Alone in a Former Sanatorium

"Alone in this pandemic, I feel anxious and fragile—two things I can’t stand."

Water views: Good for quarantining.

Nicole Hardy