Good Life Northwest

The 1913 tall ship ADVENTURESS, Puget Sound's own "Environment Ship"   Photo courtesy of Sound Experience Living in the Pug...

Forget the good intentions, folks. They won't help you now. Once again, we revive the time-honored tradition of "panic shopping,...

Executive Director Catherine Collins with young sailors. As every parent knows, childhood sails by faster than a schooner in a stiff bree...

FREE OPEN HOUSE ON SCHOONER ADVENTURESS ON TACOMA WATERFRONT Sound Experience invites the public to climb aboard the 97-year-old schooner,...

If you've been reading Good Life Northwest for awhile you know how much I love the schooner Adventuress . The flagship for the not-for-p...

Time warped last Sunday, on Elliot Bay. It happened as I admired the view of Seattle's skyscrapers through the rigging of a 1913 schoone...

Every March I wander around the yard looking for signs of life in the garden and think thoughts like, "Hmmm, I wonder what ever happene...

Imprisoned by fog that now seems permanent in Tacoma, I think about last Monday. On that morning the gray captor itself hid me as I slipped...

Last Sunday morning the autumn colors of maple trees stood out among evergreens on the hills around the still sleepy town of Gig Harbor, al...

“I’d like to be teenager again, for just six days”, I said to myself last Sunday. After the long drive from Tacoma to the Everett Marina, I...

I woke on Sunday morning still feeling the thrill of the dream. The adrenaline rush of speed and power, wind whipping my hair, the slopin...