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A few generations ago Popeye was right when he told the kiddies to always eat their spinach. And many children obeyed. They ate their vegetables, along with their meat and potatoes just like mom and dad, and Popeye, told them to do. But that is…MORE

For many people the nation of Nepal is a mountainous mystery. Reports from climbers of the world's highest peaks, and news of conflicts with the government only add to the level of uncertainty about a place that was possibly the inspiration for…MORE

Remember the term “empty nest?” Before the day when virtually every family household had two wage earners it was common for a mother to be asked when her children left home, “How are you dealing with the empty nest syndrome?” From what I…MORE

Timber, an admittedly male name, is nevertheless the name of the female cat that obviously owns David Rosen and Kendra McLeod. Rosen, a contributing photographer for the West Seattle Herald also works in his own business SlickPix Photography…MORE

The deadline for the The West Seattle Rotary Club Service Foundation Vern Gambriell Scholarship is coming up in just a few weeks. Feb 15 is the last day that applications can be made for the annual award totaling about $6000, given entirely to…MORE

Monday night fifteen Ballard writers gathered at the Copper Gate to socialize and discuss ways to collaborate in marketing efforts and exposure. The threat of snow loomed all day, all weekend in fact, causing me to furtively glance out the window…MORE

When most of us think of someone living to be 100, we might imagine a pale figure staring at the ceiling, waiting for the Lord to finally come.

This does not describe Ed Witzke. In fact, he’s in such good health, they just did hip surgery…MORE

(Editor’s Note: Charlie Ganong offers a poignant story about a special tree in Highline, followed by Jerry Robinson’s memory of a chance meeting years ago in Boston.)

Jerry, Thanks for sending us the picture of my mom and the "historic…MORE

That is a historic tree behind my mom. She no longer lives in Fentonwood. But that grand tree in the background will thrive there another four or five hundred years, when all of us will have long since gone to that big treehouse in the sky.

A nurse I work with just gave me a bag of emeralds! Well, fuzzy emeralds – in the form of kiwi fruit.

This amazing fruit with the beautiful emerald interior grows locally here in the Emerald City and is harvested in the fall. Then you have…MORE