The Vashon Loop

John and I compared Covid-19 shots and the damage they could do to you.  A week after the shot, the black and blue patch on my right arm looks like master sergeant’s stripes that...

Celebrated my one-year anniversary of being in isolation this week. Most of us are observing that one year milestone: isolation, quarantine, sheltering in place, lockdown, pain in the butt, whatever you want to call...

If Voltaire’s characters Candide and Professor Pangloss had been a dinner guests at my house this week, the professor would have recommended the recipe I give you in today’s column, Professor Pangloss would have...

The 1.9 trillion Covid 19 Relief Bill has engendered equally mammoth hopes and fears. I’ve been thinking lately about the difference between Republicans and Democrats—that the former generally think that government is the problem and...

We have just had another shock, another mass shooting- what appears to be another race-base shooting. On a different planet- our Island planet, I was looking at the other Island newspaper tonight and saw...

The project is expected to start on Monday, March 29 and will last approximately three full weeks. During construction, the bridge itself will be closed around the clock for up to three weeks straight....

ESTABLISHING CARE How do I go about choosing a provider at Sea Mar to be my primary care physician? To establish a provider as your primary physician at Vashon Sea Mar you just need to call...

Author Elizabeth Berg, known best for her many works of fiction, will share stories from her own life and caring for her aging parents at a reading on March 20. Vashon Community Care is hosting...

Help us build the Vashon-Maury Island Community Memorial Gate pavilion at the Vashon Village Green. We are asking for donations and a few volunteers to help construct and install this memorial to those that...

“John and I were having a bit of writer’s block one day.  What to write about?  The next day we awoke to a foot of snow as if the writer’s patron saint had answered...

Many of us are feeling calmer these days. It is such a relief to wake up every morning and not wonder, “What’s he done now?” It seemed like every day there was an attention-getting tweet...

Nutritionists advise us to avoid inflammatory foods, but few tell us what foods aren’t inflammatory. It would take more space than this column to give you a complete list of inflammatory and non-inflammatory meats,...