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By Peggy Sturdivant

A longtime friend told me last summer to stop trying to keep up with my twenty-two year-old daughter. Is it because Emily seems so serious in my company that I have to play teenager? Or am I trying to prove that I am…MORE

By Kyra-lin Hom

By age 12, we all know Hollywood is fake. We’ve learned about wires, prosthetics, and special effects. If you’re like me, you’ve converted hours of behind the scenes footage into hours of messing about with friends and a…MORE

From 1961 to 1972 Freda Kelly had a job that millions of girls dreamt about. She was the personal secretary for the Beatles. From the days before they became the biggest band in the world to their acrimonious break up she was on the inside and…MORE

By Carol Smith

I drive to work five days a week Show up on time, promotions seek Help kids with homework, settle fights Read bedtime stories, turn off lights

I watch my temper, walk the dog Eat healthy so my veins won’t clog Wear…MORE

Mack, my beautiful Border Collie was actually my second dog. I had "Boots"  a mutt of mixed breed who we lost in a horrific traffic accident near Astoria, Oregon in 1927. Dad's car was cut in half by a wayward driver, in the rain. Boots was…MORE

By Christy Wolyniak

Ballard author, Ingrid Ricks, has been an unstoppable force since the release of her memoir, Hippie Boy - a coming-of-age story of a girl grappling with abuse, crippling poverty, love, and religious misuse.

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By Kyra-lin Hom

Pardon me, as this week I’m slipping on my film junkie jacket. With a background in screenwriting and film studies and so many tasty blockbusters to choose from recently, I simply can’t help myself. Plus it certainly doesn’…MORE

By Georgie Bright Kunkel

A new year, 2014, is upon us. No better time than now to contemplate the life we have lived and learn from our past. They say that if one does not learn from one’s mistakes one is sure to repeat them. But we no…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant with additional reporting by Izzi Cooper

Even on the peak day of a summer heat wave I never think to myself, “I’ll just go to Golden Gardens and take a dip.”

So I just had to ask different groups of people…MORE

Editors Note: Burien resident Bill Cullins has had many careers from sales, to service, always seeking to reinvent himself in an effort to learn more about himself and the world. He has now embarked on a Walkabout. A journey of self discovery…MORE