#the cottage in bothell

[thedaveandkimmershow]

This year, Linzy really kicked it into high gear professionally.

Top of the year she joined Fleetwood Mac tribute band The Little Lies which exploded with a sold-out show at Tony V's in Everett in March. That crowd was straight up crazy about the music, singing along with abandon while the band delivered high energy performances and humor. After their debut, the year’s highlights included performances at Port of Olympia's Summer Nights, Bite of Edmonds, and Chateau Ste. Michelle.

And yes. They do a kick-ass version of “Tusk”. 🤩

As a solo artist, Linzy performs at The Cottage in Bothell, The Rustic Cork in Millcreek & Lake Stevens, and the Castillo De Feliciana Vineyard & Winery in Woodinville. She joined Robbie Christmas & Company on stage at The Triple Door in downtown Seattle for a thoroughly blues and rockin’ set before a sold-out audience, performing duets from his album “Epilogue”.

Performing with a band and performing as a solo artist isn’t all Linzy does within the local professional music community, though. She’s also a composer/lyricist/arranger/orchestrator, collaborator, and sound engineer. She writes songs that are represented to production companies. She works with other composers to finish their compositions and then furnishes that work with high end arranging, orchestrating, and production value. She runs a brand called Dream Patrol that captures a pop/tech music vibe.

In an interesting turn of events, Linzy’s gonna end the year with a New Year’s gig. She was tapped to put a band together, perform with that band, and be the band’s manager for a private party that night. It’s a crazy wonderful opportunity if for no other reason than she got to hire the people she wants to work with. 😁 😁 😁

In the end, 2022 was all about the local music community for Linzy. Meeting and working with other artists who’re also making their way in the industry. One connection she made through The Little Lies is launching their own band in 2023 in which Linzy will be a member. Keys and vocals, I think. When the band goes on tour (hopefully) in the spring, Linzy will also open for the band as Dream Patrol.

And yes. She’s still working out what Dream Patrol Live is gonna look like and how it’s gonna work.

In the meantime, Linzy’s taking the stage for a song she and Robbie Christmas wrote a few years ago. It’s called “Walla Walla” and received airplay on KEXP. They’ll perform it during the upcoming Robbie Christmas & Company concert at the Triple Door in downtown Seattle, January 14, 6pm and 9pm.

So there you have it. There’s even a coupla things I didn’t mention ‘cause they’re still up in the air, but...

There you have it.

2022 was super exciting. And 2023 looks.

Even better.

😊 ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

[snitchesusa]

Someone Told on The Cottage in Bothell

Someone Told on The Cottage in Bothell

"Large gathering observed at 5:30pm on May 15 2020. Waitresses without masks and gloves. Diners in restaurant and at patio seating. Very crowded. No social distancing. Blatant abuse." – Anonymous The aforementioned complaint was filed in Bothell, Washington on Friday May 15, 2020 with DOH doh.information@doh.wa.gov against The Cottage saying, Restaurants serving dine-in. No email address was…

[yourdailygranddaughter]

What a wild Wednesday! After our walk, the girls had a treat at The Cottage (seeing Madison is one of their favorite Bothell activities), then games with friends at Zulu's, and then their school Reading Bingo check-in after dinner! https://www.instagram.com/p/Cfm6phyvyLG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[anaturaldesign]

This is your time. FunFacts for your day. You can now #breathe deeply. Relax and enjoy the #flowers. 🌺 #aNaturalDesign www.aNaturalDesign.com 🌺 Wikipedia: Tulips (Tulipa) form a genus of spring-blooming perennial herbaceous bulbiferous geophytes (having bulbs as storage organs). The flowers are usually large, showy and brightly colored, generally red, pink, yellow, or white (usually in warm colors). They often have a different colored blotch at the base of the tepals (petals and sepals, collectively), internally. Because of a degree of variability within the populations, and a long history of cultivation, classification has been complex and controversial. The tulip is a member of the lily family, Liliaceae, along with 14 other genera, where it is most closely related to Amana, Erythronium and Gagea in the tribe Lilieae. There are about 75 species, and these are divided among four subgenera. The name "tulip" is thought to be derived from a Persian word for turban, which it may have been thought to resemble. Tulips originally were found in a band stretching from Southern Europe to Central Asia, but since the seventeenth century have become widely naturalised and cultivated. In their natural state they are adapted to steppes and mountainous areas with temperate climates. Flowering in the spring, they become dormant in the summer once the flowers and leaves die back, emerging above ground as a shoot from the underground bulb in early spring. 🌺 Original photo: Wai Siew on up splash #setdesign #creativedirector #Blossom #fleurs #florist #bothell #bothellflorist #deliverflowers #plants #gardener #tulips #tulipgrower #slowlife #cottage #fae #fairy #greenwitch #earthlover #greenthumb #nome #interiordesign #floral #floraldesign #tulip #nature #botanical #bulbs (at Redmond WA) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNiAiC3lQNb/?igshid=1fj03plj4dorr

[butternuggets-blog]

Remember Us.

List of unidentified SK cases below: Some of these cases are over a hundred years old, and may never be solved.

* CASES ARE A THEORY; THE POLICE AND/OR FAMILIES OF THE VICTIMS REFUTE THE EXISTENCE OF A SERIAL KILLER

** MURDER AREA/SITE

Thames Torso Murderer                                                       1873 - 1889

Servant Girl Annihilator                                                        1884 - 1885

Whitechapel Murders                                                           1887 - 1901

Cumminsville Slayer                                                             1904 - 1910

Atlanta Ripper                                                                       1911 - 1913

Axeman of New Orleans                                                       1918 - 1919

Murder Swamp Killer                                                             1925 - 1939

Toledo Clubber                                                                      1925

Cleveland Torso Murderer                                                     1934 - 1950

German Wire Murders                                                           1935

Texarkana Moonlight Murders                                                1946

Atteridgeville Mutilator                                                            1956

Jack the Stripper                                                                    1959 - 1964

Boston Strangler                                                                   1962 - 1964

Zodiac Killer                                                                          1963 - 1970

Cincinnati Strangler                                                              1965 - 1966

Berger County Serial Killer*                                                 1965 - 1970

Bible John                                                                              1968 - 1969

Capital City Murders                                                             1968 - 1984

Monster of Florence                                                               1968 - 1985

Highway of Tears                                                                  1969 - 2011

Ironman                                                                                 1970s

Alphabet Murders                                                                 1971 - 1994

Freeway Phantom                                                                 1971 - 1994

Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Murders                                          1971 - 1979

Texas Killing Fields [murder site]                                        1971 - 2012

Charlie Chop-Off                                                                    1972 - 1974

Doodler                                                                                   1974 - 1975

Ivan the Ripper                                                                     1974

Oakland County Child Killer                                                1974 - 1977

Ann Arbor Hospital Murders                                               1975

Flat-Tire Murders                                                                  1975

Gypsy Hill Killings                                                                1976

Atlanta Lover’s Lane                                                            1977

Connecticut River Valley Killer                                           1978 - 1988

Atlanta Murders                                                                    1979 - 1981

BC Missing Women                                                               1979 – 2012

Family Murders                                                                     1979 - 1983

Ohio Lovers Killer                                                                 1979 - 1982

I-10 Serial Killer                                                                    1980 - 1990

Monster of Udine                                                                   1980 - 1989

Yakama Reservation Murders                                             1980 - 1992

Castration Serial Murders                                                     1981 - 1986

The Priest Murders                                                                1981 - 1984

Tylenol Poisoning                                                                  1982

Frankford Slasher                                                                  1985 - 1990

Honolulu Strangler                                                                1985 - 1986

Paraquat Murders                                                                 1985

Stoneman                                                                               1985 - 1987

Tube Sock Killings                                                                 1985

Colonial Parkway Killer                                                        1986 - 1989

Hwaseong Murders                                                                1986 - 1991

Negev Desert Psychopath                                                    1986 - 1997

Triangle of Death**

Twin Cities Killer                                                                   1986 - 1994

I-65 Murders                                                                          1987 - 1989

New Bedford Highway Murders                                          1988 - 1989

Bowraville Murders                                                               1990 - 1991

Glasgow Prostitute Slayer                                                    1991 - 2005

Rome’s Gay Killer                                                                 1991 - 1998

I-70 Killer                                                                               1992 - 1994

Lisbon Ripper                                                                        1992 - 1993

Smiley Face (murder theory)*                                              1992 - 2008

Ciudad Juárez Female Homicides                                        1993 - 2006

Eighth Street Killer                                                               1994

Bothell Skeletons                                                                   1995 - 1997

Butcher of Mons                                                                    1996 - 1997

Claremont Murders                                                               1996 - 1997

Long Island Serial Killer                                                       1996 - 2013

Werewolf Killer of India                                                       1996

Apulia Slasher                                                                        1997

Ontario County Cottage Murders                                        1998 - 1999

Leduc County Murders (murder theory)*                           2003 - 2005

West Mesa Murders                                                               2003 - 2009

Pusher (murder theory)*                                                      2004 - 2013

B1 Butcher                                                                             2005 - 2007

Daytona Beach Killer                                                            2005 - 2008

Edgecombe County Serial Killer                                          2005 - 2011

Jeff Davis 8                                                                            2005 - 2009

The Jennings Eight                                                               2005 - 2009

Beer Man*                                                                              2006 - 2007

Eastbound Strangler                                                             2006

Feb 9 Killer                                                                            2006 - 2008

Paturis Park Murders                                                           2007 - 2008

Jack the Pusher                                                                     2009 - 2015

Cuffe Parade Killer                                                                2012 - 2013

Bardstown Murders                                                               2013 - 2016

Chillicothe Missing Women                                                  2014 - 2015

Haryana Serial Killer                                                            2015

Yorkshire Dipper*                                                                 2016

I have been trying to find something to do with this last few years. I’m still not sure, so here. The cases listed above are mostly unsolved; some of the cases have been partially solved, with at least one perpetrator being caught, or with a suspect being arrested but with enough doubt surrounding them that the case is considered open by the public.

The Smiley Face, Beer Man, Pusher, and Yorkshire Dipper “cases” are JUST THEORIES, and theories that are not encouraged or believed by the police and/or the families of the victims.

[nwbeerguide]

Beer Inspired Dinner with Foggy Noggin at The Cottage

Thursday - July 11th (6:30pm - 9pm)- Get ready for a dinner you will never forget. The Cottage (Bothell) will be holding a beer inspired dinner, featuring Foggy Noggin beers served on each course and some dishes will have our beer in the recipe.  We even brewed an exclusive beer for this unique night of taste sensations.  Tickets are required in advance and can be purchased HERE!

An amazing evening with Jim Jamison (and hopefully his wife, Kim) of Foggy Noggin Brewing! We will feature a prix fixe four-course meal with beer pairings, with Jim discussing each of his unique brews. And we'll be closing the evening with an exclusive nitro stout brewed especially for The Cottage! Ticket price INCLUDES tax, tip, and fees. ------------------------------------- STARTER  Mixed Greens Salad Bit O'Beaver honey vinaigrette, citrus, aged manchego, and hand pulled croutons Pairing: Bit O’Beaver – English Bitter The beer that started everything. This is a session beer that you can enjoy several of without paying any consequences. Just the right amount of caramel sweetness and light bitterness to make this beer the definition of “drinkability.” Have you had your Beaver today?  IBU: 34 ABV: 3.4% Malts: Maris Otter Pale Ale, Belgian Biscuit, Crystal Hops: Fuggle, Willamette, Golding --- APPETIZER  Matty's Mild Battered Fish & Chips Pairing: Matty's Mild – English Dark Mild When we let Matthew create his own Foggy Noggin beer, we didn’t know he would come up with the amazing Matty’s Mild. This might be the quintessential British session beer, like its name suggests, a Mild is known for its low level of hops character and low alcohol content. But this beer is packed with lots of toasty malty flavor that will make you come back for more. Cheers! IBU: 28 ABV: 3.5% Malts: Maris Otter, Brown, Chocolate Hops: Fuggle, Golding --- MAIN Duck "à l’Orange" Barrel Aged House Ale and orange reduction, duck breast, cauliflower puree, and sautéed bitter greens Pairing: Barrel Aged House Ale Perhaps the most unique ale on the market. Each 1/2BBL batch is fermented in Hungarian Oak barrels with a perpetual yeast, making each batch unlike any other. IBU: 57 ABV: 6.3% Malts: Maris Otter, Amber, Biscuit, Crystal 45 Hops: Brewers Gold, Fuggle, Golding --- DESSERT House-made stout ice cream with cocoa coffee cake Pairing: The Cottage Nitro Chocolate Stout – Russian Imperial Stout This rich malty stout is big in flavor and smooth and gentle on the palate. The roasty goodness is paired well with the Ecuadorian cocoa nibs that were added in secondary fermentation. Serving this brew on Nitro brings out a luxurious elegance that pairs well with an meal ending desert. IBU: 62 ABV: 8.2%

[daveinediting]

A few weeks ago, a friend of mine messaged me about a competition. My friend's a photographer whose path I crossed at Small World Productions and UW Video over many, many years. The message outlined his participation in the 48 Hour Film Project, a brief description of the challenge, an invitation to join his team as editor, and this:  

 "No $$, I’m afraid. We’re all volunteers. The goal is to have fun, and maybe, just maybe, produce a short we can all be proud of.  Let me know if you’re interested." 

To which I replied 

"Do something just for fun???  Dear God, YESSSSSSS!!!!!!" 

Not joking, by the way. Not even just a little bit. 

My tale today, though isn't about participating in this competition. Instead, it's to point out, appreciate really that, in ways I didn't see coming, that this experience was also a family affair. 

First, Kimmer: 

She was supportive and encouraging from the first second. Which is a big deal because it meant watching me disappear all the way down the rabbit hole from Friday evening through Sunday evening. Living life around the edges as I fully narrowed my vision down to this one project for forty-eight hours, barely paying attention to meals, hardly ever looking at the clock.  She was basically single again in there for a little bit even going by herself to Linzy's Saturday gig at The Cottage during Bothell's Wine Walk festival. A classic date night for us of which, for the first time, I did not participate on purpose. 

We did manage drinks and appetizers at Cactus on Alki to kick off the weekend. Kimmer even tolerated a phone call at the table so the director could fill me in on the genre in which we were gonna work and a rough outline of the story we were gonna tell.  Even so, she and I toasted the evening to each other as the sun set on the waters of Elliott bay. 

Forty-eight hours later, with the direct just having flown out of our apartment with the completed film on a flash drive, Kimmer thought we should celebrate the accomplishment at Maggie Bluffs at the marina on the south shore of Magnolia.

That is... if I could stay awake. 

Ha! No problem. I was dying to go outside again. 

We had... a fantastic sunset walk and a lovely meal to close out the weekend. One I'll not soon forget because it was that indelible of a weekend. 

As for Linzy, she was actually on the team with us as a composer. We talked s bit in the lead-up to Friday; we were definitely texting and on the phone a bunch Saturday and Sunday. She sent me audio files to match up with my timeline to see how her music played. She messaged me videos of music she was trying out. And, at the end of the day, the director was.pleased with her work. 

Which is the job, by the way. 

And her music, especially at the end of the film ...  always makes me smile. 

So yeah.  My tale today, isn't about participating in the 48 Hour Film Project competition. Instead, it's to point out how much I appreciate these two women in my life.

 :-)

[thedaveandkimmershow]

I love that we get to be out and about again experiencing live performances.

Last weekend was pretty epic that way with two Little Lies gigs at the Everett Marina and Taste of Edmonds and a Pat Benatar concert at the Moore Theater sandwiched in-between.

This weekend's more of a back to working off our To-Do list weekend... however we did get to enjoy a wonderful meal with a perfect house red at The Cottage in Bothell last night whilst Linzy performed solo.

It wasn't the excitement and adrenaline of monster, high-profile concerts, but I don't for a minute wanna disregard the importance of intimate moments, of just the two of us at a table enjoying that moment, soaking it in as the sound of everyone else recedes, being in that moment of food, wine, and music that's such a detour from the relentless beats of the daily work week.

Because it's still the little things.

You know?

😊

[kraftfloors]

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[in78weeks-blog]

April 12-15, 2018 : Seattle

It’s strange being back home and being familiar with my surroundings.

I was hesitant about taking this trip, thinking it might be too soon to go back to Seattle. Would I start to regret moving away? Would I be tempted to move back? I made the decision to fly out to Seattle without thinking about those things, so too late I guess.

I had lunch at Fremont Bowl with Jeff where we talked about the tech industry and how to be successful in it. We grabbed coffee & dessert at a cafe nearby where I got to hear more about his faith story. Heading back to Bellevue, I got a chance to hang out with Hannah Le over bubble tea. I grabbed dinner with Jane and talked about our personalities and faith journeys before we went climbing at Stone Gardens. After a *terrible* climbing session, we called it a day.

It’s only been a couple weeks but it’s nice to know that not much has changed.

Today I had another long list of people to see, and the day ended up being a continuous cycle of eating.

The day began with brunch at a cute restaurant called “The Cottage” in Bothell with Marky. She recently ended her time serving with InterVarsity and was taking some time to herself to pray and figure out what was next in her life.

Kaitlin and I tend to find ourselves with alcoholic beverages in our hands when we hangout. We went to Bol for happy hour and enjoyed each other’s company like always.

Then dinner with David Zhang, Angel, Jamie, Kelsey, and Matt. Then happy hour with Christen, Hannah Alcoba, and David Taft-Farren.

I ended my night at Jane’s house - a full house I must say - with Hannah Le, Isaac, Marc, Jane and me. You are my people.

My heart and stomach are very very full.

My people. All in one dining room. Making and eating brunch. Nothing could make me happier. I think?

I am weirdly missing Colorado. I love being in Seattle and spending time with people that I love. But there’s something enticing, exhilarating, and empowering about being in a place where I am far from my comforts. There’s something that draws you into mystery and uncertainty, and after getting a taste of the adventure in Colorado, the experiences in Seattle just don’t feel…fulfilling.

Today’s itinerary is again pretty packed - hanging out with Hannah Le, climbing, and board games at the Kirkland guys’ house.

I’m ready to go back to Colorado.

[icontechnology-things]

Sự khác biệt của Cao đẳng cộng đồng Lane

Lane là trường Cao đẳng Cộng đồng to thứ 3 bang Oregon với tổng số sinh viên hàng năm hơn 16,000 sinh viên, trong ấy có khoảng 250 du học sinh tới từ hơn 30 nước khác nhau. Cao đẳng cộng đồng Lane có 6 cơ sở ở Eugene: cơ sở chính nằm ở phía Nam Eugene, cơ sở ở trung tâm thành phố Eugene, cơ sở Cottage Grove, cơ sở Florence, Học viện Hàng không và tòa nhà Wildish.

Trường tọa lạc tại Eugene, thành phố to thứ hai của tiểu bang Oregon và đây là thành phố được xếp hạng một trong các thành phố có đời sống tốt nhất ở xứ sở cờ hoa.

Cao đẳng Cộng đồng Lane được công nhận bởi Hội đồng những trường cao đẳng và đại học vùng Tây Bắc và được công nhận trên toàn quốc cho sự đổi mới và xuất sắc trong việc đào tạo đại học. Lane mang lại các chương trình:

Chương trình chuyển tiếp 2 + 2 lên những trường đại học 4 năm với hơn 50 chuyên ngành như Kinh doanh, Kỹ sư, công nghệ máy tính, Nghệ thuật, Báo chí, Quốc tế học, Tài chính, và Giáo dục.

các chương trình đào tạo nghề được công nhận cấp nước trong các lĩnh vực như Hàng không, phát triển bền vững, Nghệ thuật ẩm thực và Quản lý nhà hàng khách sạn.

Trường có tổng số sinh viên hàng năm hơn 36.000 sinh viên, trong đấy có khoảng 250 sinh viên quốc tế tới từ hơn 30 nước khác nhau. Trường được có mặt trên thị trường năm 1964, là sự kế thừa từ trường khoa học – Dạy nghề Eugene (thành lập từ năm 1938). Khu học xá của trường chính thức mở cửa vào năm 1968. Trong các năm vừa rồi, Trường Lane đã nhận được phổ biến giải thưởng và danh hiệu cho các chương trình sáng tạo của mình cũng như chất lượng giảng dạy cao.

Trường có phòng hỗ trợ toàn diện cho du học sinh bao gồm: đón tiễn ở sân bay, buổi định hướng, đăng ký, tư vấn các vấn đề về nhập cư, nhà ở, và các hoạt động cho sinh viên như đi tham quan những điểm du lịch ở địa phương, trong khu vực và trên toàn bang và các dịch vụ khác nữa.

Sự khác biệt của Cao đẳng cộng đồng Lane:

Cao đẳng cộng đồng Lane có chương trình thực tập cho sinh viên lớn thứ 2 tại Mỹ và hiện hợp tác với hơn 800 nhà tuyển dụng.

Chương trình Danh dự cho những bạn sinh viên chuyên nghiệp. Chương trình này sẽ giúp bạn có được những kinh nghiệm nghiên cứu, cũng như cơ hội tiếp xúc với các chuyên gia nổi danh trong nước.

Khu căn hộ sinh viên hiện đại, đầy đủ tiện nghi và thân thiện với môi trường.

Lane là thành viên của tổ chức Liên minh cho đổi mới danh tiếng.

Lý do nào bạn phải lựa chọn học ở nước ngoài tại Lane Community College?

Sĩ số lớp nhỏ; những sinh viên được học với các giáo viên được công nhận trình độ trên toàn quốc thay vì bắt buộc học với các trợ giảng

Tiết kiệm tối thiểu 15.000 USD/năm so với học thẳng vào những trường đại học

Có kinh nghiệm làm việc trong lĩnh vực mà bạn theo học nhờ Lane có chương trình thực tập cho sinh viên to thứ 2 tại Mỹ, hiện trường đang hợp tác với hơn 800 nhà tuyển dụng.

Chương trình Danh dự cho các bạn sinh viên chuyên nghiệp, giúp những bạn có được các kinh nghiệm nghiên cứu cũng như cơ hội tiếp xúc với các chuyên gia nức tiếng trong quốc gia.

Khu ký túc xá sinh viên tân tiến, đầy đủ tiện nghi và thân thiện với môi trường

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America’s Health care Crisis Is a Gold Mine for Crowdfunding

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(Bloomberg) — Crowdfunding platforms such as GoFundMe and YouCaring have turned sympathy for Americans drowning in medical expenses into a cottage industry. Now Republican efforts in Congress to change the Affordable Care Act could swell the ranks of the uninsured and spur the business of helping people raise donations online to pay for health care.

(Related: Crowdfunding Is Not a Replacement for Life Insurance)

But medical crowdfunding doesn’t have to wait for Congress to act. Business is already booming, and its leaders expect the rapid growth to continue no matter what happens on the Hill.

“Whether it’s Obamacare or Trumpcare, the weight of health care costs on consumers will only increase,” said Dan Saper, chief executive officer of YouCaring. “It will drive more people to try and figure out how to pay health care needs, and crowdfunding is in its early days as a way to help those people.”

At industry leader GoFundMe, medical is one of the biggest fundraising categories. CEO Rob Solomon has said it’s what “helped define and put GoFundMe on the map” and has called the company, founded in 2010, “a digital safety net.”

That net grew wider this year with GoFundMe’s acquisition of CrowdRise, which was co-founded by the actor Edward Norton. It adds to the company’s business helping people fundraise for charities and sends those who need funds for “medical bills, a friend’s tuition, a group volunteer trip, or any personal cause” to GoFundMe.

Growth has been rapid. In a September 2015 LinkedIn post, Solomon wrote that the one million campaigns set up over the previous year had raised $1 billion from nearly 12 million donors. By February 2016, the total was $2 billion. In October 2016, it was $3 billion, from 25 million donors. A NerdWallet study of medical crowdfunding said GoFundMe had indicated that $930 million of the $2 billion raised in the period the study analyzed was from medical campaigns.

YouCaring, meanwhile, acquired GiveForward this year; medical fundraisers made up 70% of GiveForward’s campaigns. The combined companies have 8 million donors who have contributed $800 million to a wide range of campaigns. A big part of that total was donated to medical campaigns, according to the company. It was approaching 50% of all fundraisers at YouCaring before the acquisition, and the growth rate is set to triple this year, Saper said.

With enough volume, the business of helping people raise money for medical care has a lot of profit potential. GoFundMe takes 5% of each donation, 2.9% goes to payment processing, and there’s a 30¢ transaction fee. Smaller sites, such as Fundly and FundRazr, charge much the same. YouCaring donors pay just a 2.9% processing fee plus the 30¢.

“We rely on voluntary contributions from donors [to run the business], so our big thrust now is how do we get the word out about it,” said Saper. The company is scaling up its team and operations and hired the former global head of engagement and growth of EventBrite, Maly Ly, as its chief marketing officer in March.

Indiegogo, which started out funding filmmakers, created a separate platform in 2015 called Generosity. Medical is a top category, and users pay a 3% payment processing fee and the 30¢. Now Facebook has jumped into the fray. On May 24, it began allowing users to launch fundraisers for personal causes or nonprofits on their pages. Medical is one of eight available categories. For personal cause campaigns, Facebook takes 6.9% of each donation plus 30¢.

For more and more Americans, vying in a popularity contest for a limited supply of funds and sympathy may be the only way to pay the doctors and stay afloat. House Republicans passed a bill last month to replace the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. As is, the Congressional Budget Office estimates, it would leave 23 million more Americans uninsured in 2026 than under the Affordable Care Act. Even a law just resembling the bill is likely to raise the cost of health care for older and sicker Americans and for those with preexisting conditions, bolstering the medical crowdfunding business.

The industry still represents just a fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars Americans pay annually out of pocket for health care, said Saper. Medical crowdfunding is “highly, highly scalable and has a ton of runway,” he said. “The growth rate of the industry is showing that this can absolutely be an impactful safety net for a lot of individuals and communities to help each other.”

The remarkably named Producing a Worthy Illness: Personal Crowdfunding Amidst Financial Crisis, a study published this year by the University of Washington/Bothell, offers a striking perspective on some of those communities. Personal medical campaigns on GoFundMe were likelier to come from people living in states that chose not to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, preliminary results of the study showed. Fifty-four% of 200 randomly sampled campaigns last year came from those states, though they are home to just 39% of the U.S. population. Trumpcare would sharply curtail the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion program.

“We had a huge number of campaigns from Texas, which is often recognized as the state where it’s most difficult to qualify for Medicaid and other public insurance,” Professor Nora Kenworthy, co-author of the study, said. “A lot of the campaigns are really using GoFundMe as a safety net,” asking for “help with lost wages, help getting basic health care services and support.”

Most medical crowdfunding campaigns are a far cry from Taylor Swift’s $50,000 gift on GoFundMe to a young girl with aggressive leukemia, or $1 million in donations for a mother whose cancer returned when she was pregnant with quadruplets. “Often, funds people are raising are for a huge range of costs that go along with care, like travel to the place where you will get care, because insurance doesn’t really cover that,” said Indiegogo’s senior director of social innovation, Breanna DiGiammarino. In the future, more fundraisers will likely seek to cover premiums and deductibles rather than the cost of care itself, she said.

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“Crowdfunding is being treated a little like crowd-insurance now,” said Daryl Hatton, CEO of Canada-based crowdfunding platform FundRazr.

Yet crowdfunding’s business model is a poor fit for the gargantuan, mundane, never-ending health care costs of many online campaigners. Some get just 10 to 20% of what they ask for, said Jeremy Snyder, a health sciences professor at Simon Fraser University in Canada, where the need remains even with a national health care system. Snyder’s research, which includes analysis of ethical issues raised by medical crowdfunding, has focused on people seeking funding for cancer treatments on Canadian crowdfunding sites.

And, of course, in the U.S. as in Canada, some campaigners get less than that, or nothing at all. Slightly more than one in 10 health-related online campaigns reached their goal in the NerdWallet report. The Bothell study found that 90% of the 200 GoFundMe campaigns didn’t reach their goal, and that, on average, fundraisers got 40% of what they asked for. That doesn’t sound like much of a fix to Snyder.

“Is this something that is going to be a solution to a lack of health insurance?” he said. “Absolutely not.”

One reason for the discouraging statistics is that while most of the campaigns are ordinary—and no less urgent for it—it is often the extraordinary ones that do best.

“The more dramatic the need, the more successful” the fundraiser, said Adrienne Gonzalez, who follows the industry as the creator of GoFraudMe.com, a site that exposes fraudulent campaigns on GoFundMe.

Among the “most active” campaigns featured on generosity.com on May 30 were one to help pay for treatments for a man diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia and one for a woman struggling to cover “co-pays, travel expenses, food, lodging, essentials” as she tends to her 19-year-old daughter, who is scheduled for a kidney transplant. A third solicited funds for a woman without insurance who had been struck by lightning.

Those appeals are very different from that of an ice hockey player who had broken her collarbone in a game and started a campaign on generosity.com. She asked for $1,500 to help cover her $1,000 deductible and other costs, including being sidelined from her landscaping job for at least six weeks. Over a month, she raised $252 from seven people, or 17% of her goal. It was something.

“‘I need help with my deductible’—they are not going to be very successful,” said Gonzalez, who believes crowdfunding has done a lot of good but presents “this whole socioeconomic problem” because “you almost have to be a marketing guru” to create a successful campaign.

The Bothell researchers noticed a bias among donors toward funding solvable problems. “Injections that cost $10,000 every six months are a more solvable problem than a campaign for a family citing a litany of challenges, like utility bills that aren’t being paid because the family is paying for health care,” said Professor Lauren Berliner, Kenworthy’s co-author on the study. Media and digital savvy play a big part in attracting donations. The campaigns with hashtags, images, and flashy elements got the most financial support, the study found.

“Most campaigns are paid for by friends, and friends of friends,” said Hatton of FundRazr. “A lot of it has to do with the strength of your social network,” as people you helped now dip into a “karma bank” and help you. People with fewer financial resources may not have been able to build up that goodwill and may not have that wide and deep a social network to call on, he said.

Then there was the woman in her 30s who walked into a free clinic where Dr. Edward Weisbart, who chairs the Missouri chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program, volunteers. She was with her mother, appeared unable to speak, and had a “peculiar affect, like a crazed wild animal,” he said. It turned out she had lived for years with seizures every two to three days until she found a medication that had cut the frequency to once every two months. When she visited Weisbart, she had lost her insurance and had 10 days of medication left.

“Her inarticulate state was not a consequence of the seizures,” Weisbart said. “It was terror over what her life would be like if she couldn’t get the medication.” Once he explained that the clinic could mail her the drug and that it would cost $40 instead of $1,500, “she transformed into this normal, lucid, almost friendly person,” he said. “But she could never have used crowdfunding, because she was literally beside herself.”

Hatton is seeing more “fatigue” around crowdfunding efforts. Weisbart observed that “when you get your first request, you probably give a high amount. But as you get besieged and realize how common these requests are, donations will go down. We can’t keep on giving to everyone who asks.”

One site keeping its distance is Kickstarter, where donors fund creative projects.

“If we had personal health care campaigns, it could create a strange moral equivalency,” said Justin Kazmark, the company’s vice president of communications. “If you see documentary filmmakers trying to get $10,000 for a film alongside a project for someone whose dog needs dental surgery, or for disaster relief, it changes the mindset and frames the whole thing differently.”

— Read SEC’s Piwowar Warns About ‘SAFE’ Crowdfunding Instrument on ThinkAdvisor.

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[thedaveandkimmershow]

The question is usually a variation on You must be so proud of your daughter.

And the answer is usually a variation on We are!

The truth is, though, we are well passed our proud stage. 

Yes. We were proud when she learned how to play the piano using that Piano For Quitters video tape. 

Yes. We were proud when she taught herself how to play the guitar with help from the internet.

Absolutely we were proud when she wrote her first song in Jr. High. It was a legitimately good song with wonderful lyrics and, one more time...

She was in Jr. High.

Of course we were proud and impressed by the songs she subsequently wrote and then performed to live audiences at coffee houses, talent shows, festivals, and concerts.

We were proud when she learned how to play the clarinet because that was a legitimately difficult instrument to learn but she bullied her way through it, she persevered, and succeeded enough over one summer to join the school band in the Fall on...

Clarinet.

We got a note from her band director.

"Well, she's done it again! "

And she had.

And this was still Jr. High.

And we were still proud.

In High School there was lots more to be proud of. How she owned the school's talent show only a few weeks after setting foot in the school for the first time. The National Merit Scholar thing. The live rock band performance after which stage-diving actually occurred. That one vocal solo at Benaroya Hall. And then stepping into the spring musical her senior year, the only year in which she did it, absolutely killed it as the witch in Big Fish. And then performing an original at her own graduation.

Absolutely absolutely absolutely the song she wrote and performed for a friend's memorial in front of her school and her friend's parents. It was a breathtaking moment. There was a tremendous amount of pressure on that moment.

And so on.

Proud. Proud. Proud. Proud proud.

We were proud of her audition for Berklee School of Music at London Bridge Studios and her audition for Cornish College of the Arts.

There was a lot of pressure there, too. And this was about her future.

She was accepted to both schools, by the way.

We were proud as her songwriting took off in college. We were proud of her performances for her Jazz classes and then that song "The Rain Song" she whipped out freshman year.

We were proud of her still unfinished musical because that first song she wrote was absolutely stunning. We had no problem imagining its performance at The 5th Avenue or Benaroya or McCaw Hall.

Some day.

In college she was challenged by teachers who didn't already think she was the best thing ever coming out of high school. They treated her as someone with a lot to learn... and she rose to their ever higher demands. Which was about music, yes. Which was about performance, yes. Which was about being a professional.

We were proud of her Jr. Recital in Poncho Concert Hall. The one for which she put a band together including upright bass, drums, piano, electric and acoustic guitars as well as additional vocalists.

It was like being at a jazz club.

We were proud, of course, when she graduated... it was online, though, so we were even more proud when she walked the stage at Benaroya Hall the following year, in-person, with her class.

Now that. Was a big deal. 

We were proud as she continued to pursue her career after college, continuing to write, picking up cafe and winery gigs, working the business side at The Royal Room, and doing those random SoFar gigs, the high point of which was singing Reckless with Robbie Christmas at The Shop. Or maybe that gig at Ward Johnson Winery on Elliott near the Magnolia Bridge. People we're so incredibly into that performance. 

Dang.

It has been quite a ride.

Somewhere in there, though, the word "proud" wasn't the word anymore. Not really.

Huh?

Well, take the last month, for example. 

She put a band together for a New Year's party thrown by the city of Everett. She joined the band Midnight High that's taking off in the Spring. She made a guest appearance with Robbie Christmas & Company at The Triple Door on the song Walla Walla (which she co-wrote). She's producing a number of her own songs for a company that places music in TV and film. And then she just did that Christine McVie tribute with The Little Lies at the Nectar Lounge.

The next afternoon I gave her a call... but she couldn't talk just then because she was in vocal rehearsals with Midnight High.

So no. Proud isn't the word.

I'm not sure what the word actually is... but it's something like amazed. It's something like excited. It's something like breathtaking.

I mean... she is taking. Off.

I mean... this is happening.

I mean a straight-up music career is in progress. 

And I mean wow.

Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow.

And no. She's not doing this alone. She's part of a community of musicians who are pursuing this particular dream, this creative profession. And as the days speed by, that community, that network of professionals keeps growing. As do the opportunities.

So yup. Proud isn’t the word, exactly.

I don’t know what the word is, really.

But we're crazy excited.

😁😁😁

[thedaveandkimmershow]

So it's been one helluva month.

And it's not even over.

It's not been one helluva month only because of Kimmer's aunt Jacquie's fall at the end of last month that necessitated hip surgery after which Jacquie recovered some cognitive ability but her body in general was worse off to the point where she was transferred to hospice which is where Kimmer's right now managing Jacquie's care, being at her side every day and, like the rest of us...

Waiting.

It hasn't been one helluva month because of that, though. In fact, if the month was only about that it would've been a relatively manageable month.

What makes it the month that it is... is because that part of our lives was dropped wholesale into our show in progress. We just returned from our anniversary vacation in Orlando when, a few days later, Kimmer was on a plane to southern California ahead of Jacquie's hip surgery.

Now, the plan was to make sure Jacquie's pre- and post-op care was handled. The plan was to return her to her memory care home where she would successfully recover from surgery. The plan was for Kimmer to return home probably late the next week.

At this point, Kimmer's been there a month and a few days. Linzy went down for a few days a coupla weeks ago. I went down last week because Jacquie's health is like domino's falling and the broken hip was perhaps the second domino of something that was already ongoing.

All of that, by the way, is manageable on its own. Of course I doubt that anyone's life is composed of a single thing and ours is no different. Kimmer's, especially, is no different.

You see, when she got on the plane at the end of September, she took her show on the road. Her scheduled clients basically went down to southern California with her where she sees them online.

All her charting?

Done down there.

And then her doctoral program?

Yeah. She actually attended a coupla online classes during our vacation. We'd stop back at our room and she'd attend class for an hour.

Well, that program was just getting started and, very quickly, there were papers, quizzes, blogs, tests, formatting, reading, office hours, advisor meetings, dissertation prep, and so on. And the more time passes, the deeper into the obligations of the doctoral program she gets.

This is what I mean by one helluva month. Because aside from the doctoral work, the charting, and the clients, managing Jacquie's care has been a moving target. There are lots of pieces to it, not the least of which is Jacquie's ever-evolving condition and the family's plans on how to deal with the Now and the Future.

🤨

Now. Back at home, Linzy was keeping busy on top of her last-minute, whirlwind trip down and back from southern California.

Linzy's day job's at Off The Wall School of Music where she regularly and individually teaches a pretty all-ages group of students. She also does admin work and a bit of painting and finds herself enjoying not only the staff there but each of the students as well, both piano and vocal.

I think the age spread is something like 5 to 40. So there's never a dull moment and always a sense of adventure. 😊

Linzy's night job this month included performing at The Cottage in Bothell and Willows Lodge in Woodinville (actually the Willows gig is this Friday night). As well, she played another high-energy, next-level visual and sound production gig with Midnight High at Tim's Tavern in White Center. Lot of plans happening around Midnight High, by the way. The Future seems to be lining up for this band.

A little plot twist in the month: a pair of wisdom teeth in need of making an exit.

So that happened. 😬

Best thing, though?

I got a preview of the full album Linzy's gonna release under her Dream Patrol banner. It's a rough production draft of each of the songs she intends for the album... with a couple of the songs not yet painted with her Dream Patrol brush.

Many of the songs aren't complete. Some are. Every song, though, is on its feet. The Dream Patrol-ness of her work is definitely coming through. It's definitely another level or two up from her recently released EP, Made For TV, which features older songs.

These new songs, though, are in the process of making her first album an incredible stand-out piece of work. Especially as her Dream Patrol aesthetic allows her to be more cinematic, leaning into the emotions of her songs in a way that's not typically done.

And the live Dream Patrol show? What's it gonna look like?

Hand to God, it's fun just talking to her about it.

So that all happened this month, too.

😁

As I said, I went to visit Jacquie last week for a few days, just like Linzy did.

My October's yeah. It's a number of different post-production jobs done on location and at home. The glaring omission from this month is that The Combat Wombats didn't participate in this year's 48-Hour Horror Film Project.

Kinda bummed about that. 😕

For me, the most striking thing about October's that Kimmer 'n I haven't been apart for this long since we were first married and she went to Atlanta, Georgia, to attend Emory University's Wound, Ostomy, Continence program.

We were talking about it the other day and agreed that it's much easier to do what we're doing now with all the technology at our disposal. Cell phones especially, any time of day and night which makes coordinating everything we've gotta coordinate so much easier. We can share our mornings and evenings wherever we happen to be in those moments, say goodnight right before we go to bed. And so on.

Back in the day, we each had to be right there at a landline, a telephone wired into the wall of our condo. It was definitely not as convenient and inflexible as hell.

We did it, of course. Just as we managed my production trips to Europe through Internet Cafes and email.

We worked with whatever we had and thank God that's all changed for the much, much better.

☺️

October wasn't super about Halloween this year.

It couldn't be. It can't be.

It was a month about Jacquie and logistics and family and sharing this experience and waiting.

I just didn't wanna forget the other stuff.

🙂