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By Peggy Sturdivant

This week I learned that even if you’ve never heard a coyote kill a cat before, you know it when you hear it. Although I like to think of myself as eager to learn every day, there will always be things that I wish I’d…MORE

information from King County Sheriff

Dan Shaw, who worked as a KCSO deputy in White Center for the last 27 years, completed his final service to the community by feeding the homeless.

The Sheriff’s Office hired Shaw in 1988 after…MORE

By Eric Mathison

When Andrea Reay first took over as executive director of Discover Burien, she paired the part-time job with full-time work downtown at the Seattle Opera.

She’d leave home in the Manhattan neighborhood at 7:15 a.m.…MORE

Cooking over an open wood fire may be a once in a while activity for most Westerners, but for almost half of the world population, cooking over an open wood-fueled flame is a daily task, and the practice has serious health, social and…MORE

By Pat Cashman

“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.” David Thoreau, seminal figure in the history of American thought.

“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” Thomas Jefferson,…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

“I hope your birthday wish was for a rain,” a friend wrote to me. That is exactly the wish I made on what would total 55 candles, on the birthday I’ve been told to call double nickels.

As someone who has never…MORE

By Katy Wilkens, MS, RD

One of my favorite parts of summer is the 10-day kayak trek I do through the San Juan Islands with my husband and about a dozen Boy Scouts. That’s 30 meals to plan, shop for, pack into kayaks, cook in the wild and…MORE

by Sarah Cecil   Contributing to an IRA can help you build some of the resources you will need to enjoy a comfortable retirement. But what happens to your IRA if you don’t use it up in your lifetime? You can still put the IRA’s assets…MORE

By Georgie Bright Kunkel

Since I was born after my father died I was not conditioned to defer to the man as master. My mother never modeled the subtle behavior that young women of her day usually learned in order to attract a man. Since…MORE

By Pat Cashman

“Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast.” Kenneth Murphy, FEMA director for Region X, which includes Washington State.

Kenneth “Chuckles” Murphy was quoted above in a…MORE