Ballard - Features

By Katy Wilkens

A friend proudly showed me the new “high protein” pancake mix she had bought. Relatively higher protein means a smaller share of the mix is carbohydrates and fat.

But is all that protein good for you? Lots of studies…MORE

By Pat Cashman

Years ago a teacher stood before our class and made two grammar rule declarations: 1)“Never end a sentence with a preposition.”2)“Never begin a sentence with a conjunction.”

All these years since, I rarely follow the…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

Someone gave me a magnet that reads, “Stop me before I volunteer again.” I picture volunteering as actually raising my hand and offering to take on responsibility. The reality usually occurs in a more sideways fashion,…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

Throughout the entire month of March there was always at least one truck being loaded at the Fenpro building on Market Street as its warren of artists and fabricators emptied their studios and prepared to disperse.…MORE

By Pat Cashman

I showed up for an afternoon meeting a few weeks ago and immediately apologized. “Sorry I’m late,” I told the other five people sitting around the table. I was 25 minutes late for the 1:30 meeting. I tried to blame Siri. “…MORE

By Amanda Knox

While cataloging new inventory at the bookstore, I’m consistently surprised by the market value of individual books. Sure, textbooks tend to be expensive, mass market paperbacks tend to be cheap. Most of the time, I’m…MORE

By Katy Wilkens

I just planted two kinds of spinach in my garden and I am waiting excitedly for the sprouts to poke their little heads though the mud!

I grow both “regular” and New Zealand spinach, a look-alike green, because they…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

At first glance it might seem like just one of many interesting pairings on the dance floor for the Monday night Waltz, Etc. at Lake City Way Community Center. A woman about whom absolutely nothing is ordinary, widely…MORE

By Pat Cashman

After the old man ordered him to get out of the house and land a job, my brother Sean headed down to a nearby grocery store---found the manager---and asked him, “Hey, you guys ain’t got no jobs down here, do ya?”

It…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

During what’s rightly called the golden hour before sunset I walked to the playing fields behind Ballard Community Center and Adams Elementary. Little League teams were starting practice in all four corners. Multiple…MORE