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By Amanda Knox

No doubt, Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a challenging play for anyone. Not only is it light on the action and heavy on the dialogue, but that dialogue is either straight out of Shakespeare or…MORE

by Georgie Bright Kunkel

In years past those who divorced were not accepted in so-called polite society. I remember when my oldest sister became the first divorced member of our family. Invitations to dinners and parties were not as…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

Call it research. I’ve been meeting with other writers every week at the Ballard Coffee Works in their community room, and of course drinking a lot of their coffee. Four months ago I contacted the owner Sebastian Simsch…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

Call it research. I’ve been meeting with other writers every week at the Ballard Coffee Works in their community room, and of course drinking a lot of their coffee. Four months ago I contacted the owner Sebastian Simsch…MORE

After the United Nations issued a report last February advising a need for drastic changes in the human diet in order to curb climate change and cultivate sustainable existence practices, many Seattleites hear the diet-knell. However, for people…MORE

by Pat Cashman

A couple of weeks ago, the big company Toys r us made the momentous decision to pull a particular collection of toys off their shelves. They were six-inch figurines depicting characters from the TV show Breaking Bad---…MORE

by Chef Jeremy Mclachlan

There are many great things about cranberries and one of the best is the health benefit that Kathy Kingen discusses in her food nutrition blog Red Goodies in a White Box. In my Kitchen Talk blog this month, I give…MORE

by Kathryn Kingen

I'm excited because this month my white cardboard box will arrive. It's an early Christmas present sent from my Aunt Diane. Thoughtfully each one of my siblings gets the same parcel and every year the question at hand is…MORE

By Katy Wilkens

There are many ways to add sparkle to your meals without using salt. What else can help flavor your food? Sweet things!

Sweet is an inborn taste all humans have from birth, while the taste for salt is learned. Honey…MORE

Northminster Presbyterian Church (originally the First Presbyterian Church of Ballard) was organized on November 9, 1989, by the Rev. A. J. Canney as an outgrowth of a Sunday school held in a boarding house. The original church had eight members…MORE