The Vashon Loop

One of the best things about winter, January in particular, is that now it’s cool enough for heating up the kitchen by baking something. We’re through making gingerbread men and gingerbread houses. We can...

Benefit dance concert for Tess Mueller, former VCD dance alum who has been recently diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Tess has been an outstanding role model in the dance community on Vashon for many...

There was a time when I stood five feet six and three-quarters inches tall. Never made that last quarter inch to five feet seven. Now they tell me I am five feet five inches. Once...

Last fall, Open Space for Arts and Community hosted a successful benefit for LGBTQ+ youth. After the event, Open Space for Arts and Community donated $1,000 of the proceeds to DOVE, and used additional...

This is a column I wrote for this season in 2011.  With some minor changes, it still says what I want to say. For thousands of years, the winter solstice and the return of the...

I had just traded a black lab pup to Uncle Jerry for a Krag 30-40 rifle and was looking forward toward shooting it in the air as soon as the clock said it was...

Vashon Wilderness Program sponsors a free family friendly event on January 26th at the Vashon Theater. Vashon Wilderness Program will host its 13th Annual Storytelling Festival on Sunday, January 26 at 1pm the Vashon Theatre...

Friday January 10th will be a big night on the beach. That night, the low tide of the first full moon of 2020 will be met with points of light floating under the North-end...

You can get a lot of goodness out of garlic: Cut a clove in half and rub the inside of your salad bowl to convey a subtle flavor to the salad you’ll put into...

Front page story in a newspaper the other week: In America the average life expectancy is going down, while in other first world countries people are living longer. Actual causes of earlier deaths in the United...

I am sitting here staring at a gallery of staunch supporters of the current president. Their images have been pilfered from the internets, printed to about the same size and rubber-cemented to foam core...

As the latest climate summit, COP 25, finishes its first week in Madrid, I assume little has been done, because next to nothing has been reported.  Since they began in 1994, the COP summits...