The Vashon Loop

Thirty-four interpretive photo panels depicting the history of Vashon buildings are being installed to create “Main Street Vashon” A Walk Through History, presented by the Vashon Heritage Museum and curated by Brian Brenno, opening...

The Mukai Farm & Garden on Vashon Island has hired its first Executive Director, Tina Shattuck, an island dynamo in the arts and nonprofit community on the island and beyond. Shattuck has been a...

Bob Greg was my best friend in grade school.  We hunted flounder off their beach on Ridge Road, with a trident spear on a 10 foot pole and swung out over the bay on...

Recently those of us who use social media have been treated to an onslaught of videos of mostly middle-aged white women being ridiculously racist, and the name “Karen” has been applied to these women. Now...

A little green book titled: Watkins Household Hints caught my eye. It;s copyright: 1941. I thought, Wow! almost 80  years old. (No, I didn’t write it.)Are any of these hints still useful?  Oh, yes....

This week, I give you an article by Jeff Krasno, edited for length.  I couldn’t have expressed this any better.  The whole essay will be, but is not yet, on his blog here: https://www.onecommune.com/blog. “On...

Well, I did finish the minute movie talked about here last time, and if you like, it can be viewed here on the youtubes:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl9SGFmLG5M . Putting it together was a fascinating experience on...

We’ve got some exciting news from the Matsuda Farm, our trails and new land acquisition! Pour a glass of something and get ready! Join the Zoom call ten minutes before 5:00 on Saturday, August 1. Sit back...

Klahanie School is hosting the annual school’s Pie Auction for Family Financial Aid, Saturday August 1, 2020 6pm-9pm Live Streamed via Facebook, for the first time ever! Thank you for helping us build Fun...

Sean and I were discussing the ‘origins ‘of our mutual understanding of ‘race’ as we might have seen developing over our many decades. We agreed that our early concept of ‘race’ was really not...

Dear readers: I am taking a break from rants about current events to do some straight up storytelling. 2020 is making me tired. “There’s a young man that I know, his age is twenty-one Comes from...

The best butters for breads, biscuits, or rolls and for cooking vegetables such as carrots, celery, cabbage and other vegetables. They gain flavor with the enhancement of helpful herbs. Each variety of herb has...