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Letter to Editor | Stop the madness, break the logjam
||| FROM JEFF STRUTHERS ||| Some years ago, the Friends of the San Juans worked to discourage the volume of coal-laden ships along the U.S.-Canadian border on their way to foreign ports. Each transiting vessel
Letter to Editor | Why I strongly support Jennifer Swanson for County Council
||| FROM RHEA MILLER ||| Over the years Jennifer Swanson has made relationship with a wide spectrum of citizens, community leaders, County department heads, legislators, and Council members. She is indeed a seasoned leader who can
I’m Not the Church Lady | Let go and let God? Hell, no
How can I let go and let God when I believe I was forsaken by him? ||| I'M NOT THE CHURCH LADY from ROSIE KUHN ||| Not everyone experiences firsthand the ravages of war, earthquakes,
Midnight Mutterings | Urban friends
||| MIDNIGHT MUTTERINGS by JACKIE BATES ||| About the photograph. I am in Bellingham visiting my son and Molly and Rose Cats. A few days ago Rose escaped the house and was hiding in the
Occam’s Razor | Our island, our world through the eyes, pen of S.C. Watson
Welcome to our weekly feature, Occam's Razor, from local artist S.C. Watson.
I’m Not the Church Lady | Time for hammacking
When there’s no way out, can I stop trying to leave? ||| I'M NOT THE CHURCH LADY from ROSIE KUHN ||| Whether I chose it or not, life presents me with passages I cannot bypass.
Occam’s Razor | Our island, our world through the eyes, pen of S.C. Watson
Welcome to our weekly feature, Occam's Razor, from local artist S.C. Watson.
I’m Not the Church Lady | It’s Spooky
||| I'M NOT THE CHURCH LADY from ROSIE KUHN ||| Whether you call it awakening, enlightenment, ascension, grace, expanded consciousness, or simply being fully alive, something seems to be happening. Ordinary people are having extraordinary
Midnight Mutterings | Planning for cats
||| MIDNIGHT MUTTERINGS by JACKIE BATES ||| Planning for cats. is, at best, an oxymoron. As is the term ‘domesticated cat.’ I could have called this column ‘Oh no! Not cats again.’ One more thing
Occam’s Razor | Our island, our world through the eyes, pen of S.C. Watson
Welcome to our weekly feature, Occam's Razor, from local artist S.C. Watson.
Letter to Editor | Bring back our family physician
||| FROM MARTHA KRAMER ||| Orcas Island Primary Care has chosen to terminate a very well loved family practice physician, Dr. Jennifer Simpson-Manske at a time when there are NO other family practice physicians on-island
I’m not the Church Lady | What’s really between psychology and spirituality?
What if the most sane and sacred thing I can do is trust what I know? ||| I'M NOT THE CHURCH LADY by ROSIE KUHN ||| Psychology, at its best, says: What happened to you
Occam’s Razor | Our island, our world through the eyes, pen of S.C. Watson
Welcome to our weekly feature, Occam's Razor, from local artist S.C. Watson.
No Place Like Loam | Frank Meyer: The man who walked too far
The strange life and darker end of the USDA plant hunter behind the Meyer lemon ||| NO PLACE LIKE LOAM by ALEX TAMAYO WOLF ||| The First Steps Frans Nicolaas Meijer was born in Amsterdam
Midnight Mutterings | Planning
||| MIDNIGHT MUTTERINGS by JACKIE BATES ||| Pretty sure not one of us thinks planning for aging is simple. First of all, we have to decide at what age we will be officially old. That
