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Aging Like a Guru | What’s really happening when life gets scary
| Aging Like a Guru | Rosie Kuhn Regardless of who you are, the career path you’ve taken, your family, or the spiritual path you are on, inevitably you will meet something really scary and
Orcasional Musings | International women’s day? Black history month? What about all that?
||| ORCASIONAL MUSINGS BY STEVE HENIGSON ||| Mothers' Day, a pseudo-holiday invented by commercial interests attempting to sell us gifts appropriate for giving to our mothers, occurs on the second Sunday of May every year.
Letter to Editor | Thank you for supporting school music
– from Miriam Ziegler for the Music Advocacy Group – An enthusiastic crowd of more than 225 Orcas community members came to the OISD High School Gym on Sunday, March 1st, for the 23 rd
Aging Like a Guru | Depression is so depressing
-- Aging Like a Guru by Rosie Kuhn -- While scrolling through posts on my Facebook page the other day, I came across a photo of some of my friends that was taken a couple
Orcasional Musings | Rabbits, Sex, and Leonardo of Pisa
||| ORCASIONAL MUSINGS BY STEVE HENIGSON ||| About 20 years ago, someone who lives near Orcas Village and the Ferry Landing made a serious error and released a domestic rabbit or two. Since then, the
Guest Opinion | The U.S. coronavirus outbreak and the Trump administration
-- from Michael Riordan via Seattle Times -- As the numbers of local coronavirus cases and deaths grow inexorably, Seattle-area citizens are paying the awful price of the US president’s disdain for science. Our sprawling
Letter to Editor | A minor public health matter
-- from Tony Suruda -- Orcas residents are currently facing uncertainty regarding a major disease outbreak. I'd like to call attention to a minor but annoying issue at the Orcas Island Off Leash area: The
Village Voices | How are you feeling about the coronavirus situation?
— by Minor Lile, Orcas Issues reporter — Welcome to March. This is the third in our Village Voices series, in which we take the pulse of the people of Orcas Island. Every month we’ll
Aging Like a Guru | Life without angst? Impossible!
-- from Rosie Kuhn -- I was asked to write something that could perhaps reflect the potential for peace amongst all the current public, political angst. So I wrote down this conversation, which for me
Orcasional Musings | What about minks?
||| ORCASIONAL MUSINGS BY STEVE HENIGSON ||| Several weeks ago, the subject of this column was otters, an odiferous but friendly and entertaining animal. This week, we go in the opposite direction and look at
Letter to Editor | Thank you to Community Hero Program
-- from Lena Kassa for Orcas Senior Center -- Orcas Senior Center would like to thank the community and Orcas Food Co-op for supporting the nutrition program during the month of December’s Community Hero Program.
Letter to Editor | Thank you, voters
-- from Orcas Island Fire and Rescue -- Orcas Island Fire and Rescue would like to extend a big Thank You to all who voted in the February Special Election. With the passing of Proposition
Aging Like A Guru | Karma? What’s that got to do with aging?
-- by Rosie Kuhn -- If you want to age like a guru, then the Law of Karma is going to be good to keep in mind. Why, you might ask? Well, because it promotes
Orcasional Musings | What I did on my winter vacation
Or...I should've chosen the colonoscopy. ||| ORCASIONAL MUSINGS BY STEVE HENIGSON ||| A few weeks ago, I told you about my very clever way of avoiding the perils and discomforts of colonoscopy: I contracted pneumonia.
Letter to Editor | Some may have already wasted their vote
-- from Margot Shaw -- We have all received the very important Presidential Primary ballot. Listed are 13 Democratic candidates for our consideration. We'd like to point out that, even though their names are on
