Barb Strom has an appreciation for all of life, humans, animals and nature, and is a champion good neighbor to all. So much so that Harry Jestor, one of Strom’s neighbors, says, “In the tough real estate market today, if I were considering selling my home, I might want to include the statement: ‘You would live just down the street from Barb Strom.’”
He calls music a gateway to deeper healing. One gate has opened and is pointing him toward the south.
Grandchildren, it turns out, are one of the unexpected benefits of having children in the first place, or so it…
A bevy of talented musicians will roll out the barrel for everybody’s enjoyment Friday.
It’s been 14 years since Eve Ensler’s play “The Vagina Monologues” first hit the stage and created a whole new awareness of domestic violence against women.
A wagon of peace is rolling home, and its owner would like to invite the community to welcome it with song.
Their story would change the course of history for every blind and deaf person in the world.
Recently an eager bird watcher asked, “What’s the earliest bird to nest here on Whidbey?” I could tell her that the early bird gets the worm and swallows are harbingers of spring, but found I had to do some research.
Any guesses who the contenders might be?
In spring the drive to reproduce becomes every adult bird’s raison d’etre. Migrants fly thousands of miles to breeding territories. Some males molt into elaborate plumage and engage in energy-consuming displays. They sing at the top of their little thoraxes to attract a mate.
When a couple in Ormond Beach, Fla. found a frog in their can of Pepsi, they were understandably upset. They had originally thought it was a mouse.
Personally, when I read the item about the frog, I can only say how happy I was that I don’t drink Pepsi.
I don’t, in fact, drink soda pop of any kind, with or without mice or frogs.
It looks like another young country mouse is going off into the wide world to find out what life is like for all those city mice.
Ariel Amber Schmidtke, daughter of Michelle Schmidtke of Clinton, is a senior English major at Western Washington University. She was named to the president’s list for the fall quarter of 2009.
But beyond her scholarly achievement, Schmidtke is flying high in other realms around the Bellingham campus.
Schmidtke counts herself as one proud member of the Bellingham Circus Guild, for which she juggles and performs balancing acts and aerial dancing when she is not busy writing stories for her creative- writing classes or working her café job.