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Although my daughter came shooting out of my womb, proving she is indeed mine, my first words were, “Where did she come from?” My son is a blend of my ex-husband and me, so I never doubted his origins. But my daughter has always been unique in…MORE

What seems like decades, but was actually only five years ago, I wrote a column about meeting a local developer for coffee at Java Bean. I was only months into this column and not yet a veteran of neighborhood district council, design review and…MORE

by Marjorie Young

Why are we here? How do we fulfill our destinies? Is our path preordained or ours to determine? How can we live with true awareness instead of sleepwalking through life?

These are just a few topics I hope to touch…MORE

Keven Wynkoop loved Ballard High School so much that he returned to BHS only five years after his graduation. He started as a history teacher and moved up the ranks to become the youngest principal in the school's history at 35 years old.

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

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

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

While Woodland Park Zoo is closed for visitors today, the animal residents, such as the zoo's pack of wolves and grizzly bear, are in their element in the snowy Northern Trail exhibit

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From Random House Dictionary of the English Language. Copyright 1987: "Stentorian, adjective, very loud or powerful in sound, usually describing a voice, from Homer’s Iliad, Stentor, a Greek herald with a loud voice."

Who would use the…MORE

The boy comes out of a house followed by his parents and visiting grandparents. It’s just before 8 a.m. on the last Friday of the winter break. Despite heavy rain in the forecast there is a sun break revealing the Olympics and making wet streets…MORE