Last week I opened the door of my potting shed and heard fluttering in one corner, down below the shelves….
I sit here at my laptop, typing, all the while surrounded by the computer’s enveloping blue glow, as Arcade Fire’s…
Some of the lowest tides of the year occur during our summer months, and the last of those is coming…
Two islands, thousands of miles apart, find themselves fused together by a translucent connection.
Oh! Ye’ll take the high road and I’ll take the low road, to the 12th annual Whidbey Island Highland Games.
Spend the day vegging out, while making sure every island child gets to eat well.
Painter Pete Jordan likes to sit in a place and just hang out.
She may have been extraordinarily small of stature, but she was bigger than life when it came to making things happen.
It’s a widely accepted truth that in dreams, as in life, little is as it seems.
In writer and director Christopher Nolan’s new film “Inception,” that maxim is taken a step further. Nolan, creator of 2008’s “The Dark Knight,” weaves another cinematic masterpiece, a cerebral heist in which he suggests that our dreams can in fact be invaded and manipulated by members of a secret, highly-trained task force. If this sounds like a strain on the viewer’s credulity, let me just say that it was one so deftly and enchantingly handled that I was more than happy to comply. Not only is the film a visual marvel, but the plot is rich and complex, filled with smart, snappy dialogue.
If it wasn’t for cheating husbands, she might not have been the best-selling writer of all time, an honor she shares only with William Shakespeare.
It’s back. Civet poop coffee is back in the news, now given the stamp of approval by the Indonesian Ulema…
Off the beaten path, beyond the grassy drive, down a shady path and into a sunny hollow awaits a garden of delights.
