By Marc J. Elzenbeck How do you become a pirate ship? One suspects it’s always been a tricky process, what with obtaining pesky letters of marque, patiently hiding in keys to ambush passing merchant ships, and the risks of your crew swinging by their necks from a yardarm. Paul Freeman of the good ship Sara…
By Andy Valencia Yes, everything is up-up-up, as in prices: your cafe drink, groceries, ferry fares. Let’s not even talk about gas. Will we actually reach $8 per gallon? And in technology … RAM prices up 3x, maybe 4x, or even moreDisks, more than 2xSSD, more like 3x And now the word is coming out…
By Suzanna Leigh The end of my sojourn with the Pilgrims Christian Commune in Hawaii came when a man from the home church on the mainland came to speak to us. Along with some possibly prejudiced prophecies about the coming end of the world, he told us that Ken, the head of Pilgrims, was an…
Part Two: The Falcon’s Nest By Richard Odell from Part One: “My parents would one day move to that island, and within a few years find themselves, by choice of housing, connected by an overgrown lane to the source of that pillar of smoke, a mansion that now lay in ruins. I was but five…
By Mike Ivaska One of the things I really appreciate about life on Vashon is how quickly we can immerse ourselves in nature here. Within ten minutes of walking or driving, depending on where you live, a trailhead awaits. You don’t even have to have anything resembling survival skills – which, for me, is particularly…
Heron on Rooftop – Point Robinson. Photo by Claudia Hollander-Lucas
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By Daniel Hooker From Shannon on my Facebook page: Freddie Mercury, Venus Williams, and Bruno Mars walk into a bar. They didn’t planet that way. ~ Recently, I’ve been eating so much pickled garlic to get over a summer cold that It’s had a side effect: those people who have been flapping around and driving…