The Vashon Loop

George is a retired pharmacist living in Davis, California and a devout fan of John’s and my stories in the Loop.  A friend for 60 years, George and I called ourselves “ski bums” and...

The first earwig of summer showed up today. It scampered out from under my blood glucose testing kit and was scurrying across the kitchen table at earwig top speed when it met with misfortune:...

Researchers investigating nutritional values foods came up with a list of the 100 best. Walnuts were nearly at the top of the list, beaten out only by flax seeds as a source of omega-3...

Since confronting the challenge of reducing our carbon footprint 30 years ago, the scenario has played out like an narcotics anonymous group trying to move forward with an opium processing plant next door.  Every...

It has been a while since I had my official space here for film criticism since it’s been kind of a stretch to even get one column out of me and, after all, who...

On May 16, 1942, with two days’ notice, armed guards herded 111 Vashon residents onto trucks at the island’s downtown Ober Park to be sent to detention camps in Pinedale, California. Their crime was...

Histories and Mysteries: Preserving our Past, Funding Our Future is a variety show of interesting facts about what makes Vashon Island so unique in our spot in the Salish Sea while highlighting the Vashon...

There is nothing more fragrant than the steam from an open pit of bean-hole-beans drifting thru camp. There were three gold colored cans in the pit and each weighed 30 pounds loaded. They were...

It is now the Easter season in the Western Christian church. Eastern/Orthodox Christians will not observe Easter until May 7. They are still in Lent. You do know that Easter is the re-named pagan spring celebration...

Antioxidants stop free radicals from trashing your immune system. They help you stay younger longer, and free of inflammation, infection, heart disease, and cancer. You get these miracle nutrients in fresh vegetables and fresh...

PBS (public TV) repeats a ten-minute filler in between each fifty-minute program.  It changes every week or so, and last week you may have seen that they featured Vashon Island for its stellar vaccination...

It’s been about a year now, because the ranunculus are blooming again. There are, indeed,  other ways of marking the passage of years. I usually write in my rain log when the tree frogs...