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March 1, 2021 at 12:00 a.m.


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Love Lines

"And, from day one, he made it clear that marrying me was what he wanted to do."

Penny's Favorite Cat Bed

Whiskers at Home treats cats very well!

Keeper

"Can we keep her?"

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What am I most happy about?

"...nature at her finest..."

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Poor man’s asparagus: winter leeks in the garden

Like a giant green onion, leeks somehow manage to make it through most winters. You can pull the fleshy, thick stems out of the ground until it’s freezing outside.

New Olympic Museum deserves a gold medal

The Olympics was always a much-anticipated event for my family. We would gather together, jockeying for position in front of our small TV set, to share the excitement of competition and the pride in seeing our country’s athletes stand on the podium. We agonized when they slipped or fell, or …

Tugboat Annie & Seattle’s Silver Screen

The smash hit 1930s film was the first Hollywood movie to feature the Emerald City

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“Martin Luther King” Haiku

"What a marvelous leader"

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Mom was Funny

"Well, if you don't know, I'm not going to tell you."

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The right apple for the right job

More than half the apples eaten in America come from Washington state.

Meet the celebs of Saguaro National Park

Cacti are quirky characters with their prickly, spiny exteriors and odd, irregular shapes. You either like them or you don’t. I personally find them beautiful and admirable for their unique qualities.

Resolutions

"How awful is this situation? Get very dramatic; it’s a great tension reliever."

The Man Who Saw Bigfoot

If you close your eyes and picture Sasquatch, there’s a good chance you’ll conjure up a very specific image: a big, hairy humanoid, mid-stride, arms swinging, head turned to glance back over its right shoulder. In that iconic picture, the thing Bigfoot was turning back to look at was Bob …