Ballard - Features

By Pat Cashman

Now that I am among those people who did not win the Power Ball lottery, I can finally reveal that if I had won---I would have used the money to send all the kids of our area to Disneyland. Or---if they preferred---Toyota-…MORE

By Amanda Knox I don’t know how old I was exactly, but I was as old as you are when you stand eye-level with the kitchen counter. All the neighborhood kids were gathered in my backyard and we were playing pretend. In this game, I was a cat that…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

At least in my circles we don’t say goals anymore, or resolutions. We set ‘intentions’ for the New Year. Some of us the moment before we plunge into Puget Sound, many while sitting on a yoga mat, others on origami paper…MORE

By Amanda Knox

Soaking for several hours with eight other naked women in a hot tub, in an open room in the spa with three other similarly packed tubs, I pondered two things: tattoos (because there were a smattering of those to appreciate…MORE

By Pat Cashman

“We mustn’t scream at each other, the walls in this house have ears.” ---Tennessee Williams in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“If there is one sound that follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.” ---David Gemmell “…MORE

By Amanda Knox

I love the end of the year, if simply because there are enough holidays crammed together that many relatives and friends who are spread far and wide actually have the time off to travel and visit home. One such friend, a…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant The day after Christmas I was in the Golden Gardens parking lot at 8:10 a.m. (late) holding my yogurt granola and an Americano. The sky was pink, hinting at the presence of a sun after the month’s record-breaking rain.

By Jeanne Kohl-Welles

By the time you read this, I already will have resigned from the state Senate and taken office as an elected member of the King County Council for District 4, succeeding my dear friend, Council Chair Larry Phillips,…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant One of my most faithful readers won’t want to read this column--because it’s about her. Until two days before Christmas 2015 Gerry Hansen and I had never met. We’d been exchanging written words; mine were delivered via Ballard…MORE

By Katy Wilkens, MS, RD

On these cold, rainy days, I have been craving that wonderful Vietnamese soup called pho (pronounced “fuh”).

A few years ago a colleague and I did a home visit to one of my patients. His lovely Vietnamese…MORE