Seattle Sketcher

A selection of columns published in The Seattle Times between 2009 and 2021.

Triangle house: a slice of weird Seattle

Sketched March 12 and 17, 2015 Welcome to the Egan House, the latest addition to my list of delightfully weird Seattle. The $2,300 month-to-month rental includes unreachable built-in shelves high on the wall and a door-to-nowhere on the second floor.…

Vintage machines come alive at computer museum in Sodo

My tech-loving son has set an ambitious goal for his sixth-grade “passion project” at school: to build his own PC. While he tries to get creative with sourcing parts on an 11-year-old’s budget, we decided to visit the Living Computer…

A mini-Seafair air show at ‘Lake Weaver’

Sketched July 18, 2013 It’s like a miniature Seafair air show. At speeds ranging from 30 to 50 mph, little radio-controlled floatplanes loop and twist over Lake Washington. They are piloted by about a dozen hobbyists standing on the Ferdinand…