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Sustainable Ballard’s 4th annual Edible Garden Tour is coming up on Saturday, June 23, with this year focused on the northeast segment…MORE

I recently had dinner with three of my writer friends. We all advised one another on how to write and market our next book, but none of us were following our own advice. “It’s the second book curse,” I thought when I left the restaurant. “We’re…MORE

The Seattle Public Library created a program 14 years ago that has since been emulated world-wide. On a cloudless Saturday morning in early May, Amy Waldman, the author of this year’s program selection Seattle Reads The Submission, told the…MORE

I recently got to go to the Seattle Westin hotel to sample and select the menu for Northwest Kidney Centers’ May 15 annual Breakfast of Hope fundraising event. We aim for a menu that’s delicious and at the same time low in sodium, because that…MORE

My last week has been somewhat consumed with breasts. A good friend and I had hoped to schedule our mammograms for the same day, but it didn’t work out. Her Tuesday appointment ‘earned’ her a follow-up biopsy for the following week because her…MORE

When I moved to Ballard sixteen years ago friends said, “Ballard? Only old people and fisherman live there. Nothing happens in Ballard, why would you want to live there?” I laughed at their misperception back then, and have marveled how Ballard…MORE

By Marjorie Young

Perhaps the most frequent theme during my readings concerns the elusive quest for the ‘right person.’ “Where is he?” many bemoan. Clients recount numerous relationships, including marriage, yet still fail to find ‘the one…MORE

Ralph Waldo Emerson is quoted as saying, “What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered...”

Mine is a garden of mystery, then, as I apparently have many plants with undiscovered virtues. And now, when I actually have…MORE

I’ve been listening to my friend Erika talk about her Zumba teacher’s tight butt for over a year now. Although I love a viewing of a good butt as much as the next gal, I didn’t want to have to enter a gym just to get a glimpse. “I hate gyms,” I…MORE

Marilyn Klepper’s teenage daughter Jeanne-Marie died on Mother’s Day in 2001. The 11th anniversary of her death once again fell on Mother’s Day this year. Jeanne-Marie Klepper was a student in the Biotech Academy at Ballard High School when she…MORE