I can’t remember a time in Eastsound that was more forest-clearing and construction-y than right now. Walk a 20-minute circumference around the town and you’ll see a lot of change. Go hug your favorite tree today; it might be gone tomorrow.
That is always the question. For me, at least. When we moved here, we knew the hardest thing we’d be leaving wouldn’t be the year-round sunny weather but the school our older son attended. It was a small Christian academy where students were expected to work hard and have absolute …
Tomorrow the cast of Mamma Mia! will begin their second round of three weekend musical shows at Orcas Center. By the end of next weekend, they will have done 11 total performances. By around the eighth, I think my mind would get so loopy in deja-vu land that I wouldn’t …
This is our fifth day of spring. When it comes, you wake up one day to a whole new season – new birds singing, sun shining, blue sky, warm air, new scents, and a giddy feeling that overwhelms your being and pushes you out in the beauty. It happened Saturday …
According to the bible, the Sabbath day begins at sundown and ends the next day at sundown. The Sabbath is meant to be a day of rest (the Hebrew is Shabbat, from the verb shabat, which means ‘to rest’). It’s God’s fourth command in the Ten Commandments: “Remember the Sabbath day …
We left for a lunchtime walk and came back covered in snowflakes. It kept on until an hour or so after school pick-up. Silent, beautiful, and serene. It had almost all melted by 7 PM. It’s relatively rare here, so I savor it every time.
Art and my brother Jack go hand in hand. He’s always done it, always been good at it. Everything he’s tried has been impressive. He thinks in a way that I don’t, and always has an angle to a situation that I’ve never thought of, and that’s how his art …
Wow. Did we ever participate in an unforgettable Lambing and Kidding workshop this weekend. A friend of ours recommended it to us because she knows how much our younger son loves animals. I signed us up for it, not really knowing what it would entail. Though we were total fish …
We just took a paper folding class on Friday afternoon at Orcas Center from Bradford Hansen-Smith, who has been folding circular paper for decades, learning about an art that seems to have little to no history. How cool to find out that he is the brother of my friend Vicki …
