One of my earliest memories of what we always called “getting ready for Christmas” is being in my grandmother’s kitchen,…
While sitting around the caboose the other afternoon, instead of enjoying our splendidly sporadic December sunshine, it occurred to me,…
Up at the North Pole, Santa Claus is filling his sack with the latest and greatest amusements.
What child doesn’t love a puppet show?
And what better way to get into the holiday spirit than to join a group of children horseshoed around a puppeteer with live musical accompaniment?
It’s safe to say that the current generation probably knows very little about World War I.
But one island poet and anti-war activist, Ann Gerike, is determined to bring part of that war’s story, and in turn the terror of all wars, to mainstream readers.
If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.
That’s a theater saying.
And it sums up why thespians take the risk of walking out onto the stage each night, never really knowing what will happen.
Ever notice how much waving goes on around here? Are you one of those drivers that likes to wave at…
Helen Price Johnson is Island County’s first woman commissioner.
The first century Greek historians called her “Rhodopis,” “the rosy-cheeked.”
Perhaps that’s why the prince was so smitten.
Whidbey Islanders live here for a reason.
The colors, the smells, the views and the camaraderie all contribute to the special quality of life on the island.
And if some of us could live immersed in the immeasurable beauty of what lingers out of doors, we probably would.
Yesterday I watched a cloud of several thousand shorebirds swirl and dance in the morning sunshine above Deer Lagoon. At…