Hi!

I'm Whitney. Welcome to my little slice of the Internet, where I talk about life in Seattle and our travels beyond it. I have a handsome husbro I may have met outside of a bar, two crazy felines, and two kiddos, too. It’s a lot, so I’m not always spending as much time here as I’d like. Do you like reality TV, sampling all the products, and pickled veggies? Same! 

I'm so glad  you're here. 

Free At-Home Workouts from Seattle-Area Studios

Free At-Home Workouts from Seattle-Area Studios

While COVID-19 continues its sweep across the globe, shutting down pretty much everything and decimating the stock market, it’s been hard for me to get my head right. One of the most difficult things for me to manage in general is too much information coming at me from too many different directions. I can’t handle my mom texting me AND blowing up my Facebook Messenger while I’m trying to respond to an important email. Live streaming the governor’s latest press conference while refreshing Twitter and telling Alexa to play NPR has just become too much. I had to reel it in or it would start to feel like an even crueler reality than it already did. I had to take a break.

And in the midst of deleting handfuls upon handfuls of CEO letters from everyone who’s gotten my email address telling me about their approach to taking necessary precautions, I opened a few. And in them, I found kindness and empathy and a very real understanding of nurturing community, even if it can’t be in person. My favorite fitness studios from all around the Seattle area are offering free or deeply discounted online classes just because they feel it’s the right thing to do, and probably because they need the break, too.

I’m keeping a running list to share with people as they need it. I tweeted about the emails and people seemed like they felt the same way I did—that we needed these streaming sessions. Please tell me about any you know of that you think I should add. I’ll be checking out as many as I can in the next few weeks (maybe, hopefully not beyond). I have huge gratitude to the instructors and owners—THANK YOU for giving us breaks from maniacally refreshing the news, for offering us the opportunity to move, and for bringing us together:

Namaste so hard. At home. We got this.

What to Read While in Self-Isolation

What to Read While in Self-Isolation

Shopping Small During COVID-19

Shopping Small During COVID-19