Zach Powers

Had a great time and really enjoyed our convo!

Ep. 216: Twenty-Three and Not Me

Had a blast joining @hopeteague.com and Annie on the “Interchangeable White Ladies” podcast to talk about breezy issues like nationalism, geographic heritage, and DNA tests.

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From our childhood sports broadcasts to the skies above Tacoma - it’s the Goodyear Blimp!

(Is it hanging out near the Puyallup Fair or did it get lost on the way to Lumen Field?)

Sitting by the Snoqualmie River, working on the last chapter of my book. 🌲✍️📖🦆

What I’m reading on vacation this week. The first two by writers I already love, and the third by one I’m reading for the first time.

Or just, like, text me your email address since we’re actual friends in real life and not just social media :)

It’s not published, but I can email it to you - wanna dm me your email address?

I wrote a long essay about this - your husband is quoted it in. But it’s only about me, not all white people (I don’t think all white people are motivated by World Cup soccer fandom. lol)

The number one reason I’m thankful my book found a publisher is that now when I email strangers for interviews or information (and subtly mention the publisher) they usually write back.

My latest piece in Pacific NW Magazine. Will probably be my last one of 2025 because I need all the spare time I can find to get my book into my publisher on time by December. Glad to finish up this run with an article about a community-critical place in Pierce County.

With ice bumper cars and skating, this WA rink has the best of both whirls Ice bumper cars at Sprinker Recreation Center are part of a trio of popular winter attractions in Spanaway, along with ice skating and a holiday lights exhibit.

I went out to Spanaway and rode an ice bumper car reporting this Seattle Times article. Just the latest example of the high-speed, high-risk ends I’ll go to for a scoop.

www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-m...

My Christmas gift (to myself) arrived!!

Now I gotta wrap these up so my kids can watch me slowly unwrap them Xmas morning because it’s important they know Xmas isn’t just all about them and baby Jesus (it’s about me, too!)

Me kneeling down with six 1st and 2nd grade boys around me listening. They are wearing green jerseys and one is holding a basketball. I’m giving last minute instructions before our game starts.

Me: “I’ve got to just work, parent, and finish my book in 2025.”

Also me: “Sure, I’ll coach the boys again this winter.”

Tacoma after-school program uses glass-blowing to create art and connections Co-founded by glass artist and world-famous Tacoman Dale Chihuly 30 years ago, Hilltop Artists uses glass art to forge connections with and between teenagers.

I only had to walk eight blocks from my Tacoma home for my latest Pacific NW Magazine/Seattle Times article!

www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-m...

My first longform feature for the Seattle Times is on the cover of today’s Pacific NW Magazine! It’s my account of a weekend spent at the Washington coast with a crew of fun-loving Seattle artists celebrating “Clamchella.”

Here’s the piece online: www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-m...

Thanks very much Catherine - definitely am :)

Thanks Sean!

This is me and my uncle Dave in 1988. He died five years later from AIDS. As of this morning, the book I’m writing about him is now under contract with University of Washington Press.

This morning my 7yo son attempted to draw a nativity scene with the people as animals and the animals as people because, he said, “that’s what a real artist would do.”

He’s not wrong, but his finished product was a hot mess.

Article in print look like:

Seattle blacksmithing classes forge team spirit, confidence and chopsticks Participants are hesitant as they begin a blacksmithing class at Lawless Forge in Seattle, but confidence builds quickly through repetition and trial and error.

"FIRES BURN AND sparks fly beneath the West Seattle Bridge in South Seattle. Ears ring with the metallic crashing of hammers into smoldering orange steel.“

—I wrote a fun article about Lawless Forge in today’s Seattle Times (in Pacific NW Magazine).

www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-m...

The crew of the Flicka sets sail on Commencement Bay for a weekly race The Flicka, a beautiful 35-foot sailboat with a busy crew, joins more than 30 other wind-powered vessels for a weekly race around Commencement Bay off Tacoma.

Are we doing #throwbackThursday on this app? If so, here’s a Seattle Times/Pacific NW Magazine piece I wrote last year about going sailing for the first time. ⛵️🌊🌅

www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-m...

Reading two memoirs that are (in the chapters I’m on, at least) both set in Oregon. A weekend trip to Portland probably forthcoming. #books #amreading

Just turned in my first long form feature to the Seattle Times/Pacific NW Magazine. It’s light and fun — by no means hardhitting — but I really wrote the shit outta it and I’m excited to see it in print in about a month!