The Vashon Loop

King County Local Services’ Community Service Area Town Hall Open House. Monday, Sept. 23, 7-9 p.m.; Vashon High School, 9600 SW 204th Street, Vashon These events give unincorporated King County residents a chance to meet...

Washington became the first state to legalize “human composting” on May 21, when Gov. Jay Inslee signed a law that will allow human bodies to be converted into soil in licensed facilities.  On Thursday,...

My doctor told me I should eat pickles for the electrolytes and to help my digestion. Pickles? Really? I LOVE those sweet gherkins I buy at the grocery store and the pickles Mustafa makes!...

Hugh Jones, the husband of Bruce Blakemore, has died. Bruce is the sister of an old friend, John Blakemore. John has lived in Australia for many years now with his Australian wife Julie. Before that...

I have been preoccupied of late and am having trouble focusing on the next topic, so I decided to go with the flow.  My oldest friend on Vashon, Bill Tobin, died on August 2. ...

“What wonderfully curly hair your children have,” a visitor from Seattle exclaimed, as she ran her fingers through my curly hair and made me cringe.  Since my brother Mike was dark complexioned, a throw-back...

I got another writing reprieve the last time here, and so it did not become general news that I was on the road again. I believe at this moment I am somewhere over the...

A recently added hunting season for deer on private land on Vashon-Maury Island does not include King County Parks’ Island Center Forest, which is scheduled to have its annual limited deer-hunting season Oct. 12-31,...

I thought I didn’t like cauliflower, until I tasted Jamila’s Zahra Maqaliya. Jamila is at home in the kitchen, whether she is cooking for the seniors at the senior center, cooking with Mustafa in that...

I have one dog and one cat, both rescues. The dog, Marley, is an all-white American Staffordshire Terrier with a black nose. She came to us as a foster dog. I was asked if I...

Last October, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a report stating that our children will be toast if we don’t make substantial progress by 2030.  On August 8, they will be issuing another...

The first thing I bought from Earl McCormick was a crow-call and it was all black and shiny with white lettering on the side.  I was twelve years old and cocky because I thought...