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Heartened by the Kindness of Strangers

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Each day we all face challenges, quietly carrying the burdens of worry, sadness, loss or letdown with us like spare change in our pockets. While...

Rug Wash in the Great Outdoors

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I have a penchant for area rugs — small to large, bold to muted, plain to intricate. While I grew up with the wall-to-wall sculptured berber and the...

I Fought the Lawn, and the Lawn Won

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At first it was difficult to wrap my suburban-lawn-care brain around the fact that I no longer lived in Seattle on a postage-stamp-sized lot. When...

Spring in My Step: Putting Hibernation to Bed

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Fresh start: honeycomb, pea vines, and a little luck...The robins, crows, tree frogs and barred owls, raucous little alarm clocks that they are, have sounded...

Knitting Up an Awesome Bulldog

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I like surprises, not the kind that make you pee in your pants, and seek therapy and tubs of Haagen Dazs, but the sort that delight...

The Twelve Days of Christmas Vashon Island Style

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While The Twelve Days of Christmas is not my favorite Christmas carol, I think I could embrace it more wholeheartedly if the song was less...
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Christmas Lights, Madrona Trees, and a Cordless Phone

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  One of my favorite Christmas traditions is to install flood lights at the base of my century-old madrona trees. The underlit behemoths put on...

Goldilocks and the One Bearish Bulldog

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Someone's Sitting in My Chair... Boz and Gracie, my beloved bullies, are never short of entertaining antics.  So when my friend Nancy stopped by for...

Little Truck, Big Life

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In 1998, I bought my little gray Mazda truck with a 150,000 miles on it for $1500. The gentleman I bought it from was a...

How to Cook Fresh Pumpkin for Pie or Soup

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With my front porch buckling under the weight of pumpkins, and winter bringing up the rear, I'm eager to do something with the bounty before me....