Nancy Chaney

Nancy Chaney

Nancy Chaney is a Seattle-based writer and editor, and former out + about editor for ParentMap.

Recent Articles

Women lifting smiling child into the air

Seasonal Fun

The Play List: Highlighted Seattle-Area Family Events and Outings for May 2022

May is a good month to celebrate … dramas, llamas and mamas!

By: Nancy Chaney | Apr 28, 2022
Young girl in a field of pink tulips holding a yellow dandelion

Seasonal Fun

The Play List: Highlighted Seattle-Area Family Events and Outings for April 2022

April is a good month to celebrate flower power!

By: Nancy Chaney | Mar 30, 2022
Storyteller Kevin Kling performs his one-man show The Best Summer Ever! at Seattle Children's Theatre

Arts + Entertainment

‘The Best Summer Ever!’ Rules at Seattle Children’s Theatre

Legendary storyteller will make you LOL, over and over

By: Nancy Chaney | Mar 28, 2022
Cast of the musical Hamilton shown on stage ready to take a bow touring production photo credit Joan Marcus

Arts + Entertainment

‘Hamilton’ Returns to Seattle for Summer 2022

Tickets go on sale Monday, March 28

By: Nancy Chaney | Mar 25, 2022
A young girl in a purple jacket crouches down in a grassy field with crocuses blooming and picks some of the flowers

Seasonal Fun

The Play List: 15 Ways to Spring Into Spring 2022

Highlighted Seattle-area family events and outings for March 2022

By: Nancy Chaney | Feb 28, 2022
View underwater of a fish passing by a gree bio cube Smithsonian traveling exhibit examining life in one cubic foot of earth or sea

Arts + Entertainment

New Burke Museum Exhibit Examines All the Life in One Cubic Foot

How much can happen in one small hunk of earth or sea?

By: Nancy Chaney | Feb 11, 2022
A young Asian girl watches a lion dance at a celebration of Chinese New Year

Seasonal Fun

15 Ways to Pounce on the Year of the Tiger

Highlighted family events and outings for February 2022

By: Nancy Chaney | Jan 31, 2022
Three California sea lions rest on a buoy near Ray's Boathouse in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood fun outing for kids and families

Seasonal Fun

Have You Seen or Heard These Guys?

Noisy and hilarious sea lions are hanging around in Ballard

By: Nancy Chaney | Jan 27, 2022
Young girl enjoying the winter by making a snowman

Seasonal Fun

15 New Ways to Have Fun in the New Year

Highlighted family events and outings for January 2022

By: Nancy Chaney | Dec 28, 2021
Kids playing in the small waves at Long Beach Washington best family getaways from seattle for winter spring 2021-2022

Travel

Vacation Planner for Seattle-Area Families

Awesome nearby getaways for winter and spring

By: Nancy Chaney | Dec 09, 2021