Ballard - Features

By Katy G. Wilkens I love these last few days of summer when the garden is almost, but not quite, out of control. The fig trees are holding out branches laden with fruit, the apples are getting bigger day by day, tomatoes have to be picked for…MORE

By Tim Robinson

Sometimes I think back to the old TV cowboy heroes and wonder what how they survived financially.

"Hi-Yo Silver..away!” called the Lone Ranger as Silver reared up on their way out of town. We know he and Tonto, a…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

Within 24 hours of disembarking from the ferry to Martha’s Vineyard, along with the girl’s lacrosse team, I felt chewed up and spit back out by the fast pace of small town life. “How about a column on the difference…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

Within 24 hours of disembarking from the ferry to Martha’s Vineyard, along with the girl’s lacrosse team, I felt chewed up and spit back out by the fast pace of small town life. “How about a column on the difference…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

I thought my student Olive Royal was kidding when she said she’d have a dog with her at our meeting. She was not. I perked up when I met the dog.

The dog with Olive had the head of a black Labrador on a Corgi’s…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

My friend Helle Andersen had rescued a donated, dead, green sea turtle from the Feiro Marine Life Center’s freezer in Port Angeles and was delivering it to the Dermestidae room at the Burke Museum. She knew I’d want to…MORE

By Katy Wilkens, MS, RD

Forget about being the Evergreen State. While we have a lot of fir trees, Washington also produces almost 100 million boxes of apples every year. Over half the apples eaten in America come from our state. It’s no…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

We picked up others as though we were a walking school bus, two at one corner and another one at the next. I’d wavered on joining this walk. One friend I see several times a week but it had been long time since I’d seen…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

I need to get outside to pick tomatoes before the Labor Day weekend’s rainfall splits them open. Even without water the high temperatures of August have done their work in the garden, and in rising tempers over what…MORE

By Katy Wilkens

My love affair with Greek food started years ago on a trip to Greece with my husband. Salads brimming with tomatoes and cucumbers, lemons in everything, thick yogurt with dark Greek honey drizzled over the top or a spoonful…MORE