Artist’s Date: Marysville, WA Strawberry Festival Parade
Marysville’s Strawberry Festival is the first parade in the annual Seafair season. I think you have to live in Washington State awhile before you can understand or appreciate a wacky […]
Category Archives: Artist’s Dates
Artist Date: Flower World, Maltby, WA
A trip to Flower World is phenomenal therapy for me. My case manager took me last week to buy unusual flowers. She had never been to Flower World, and I […]
Artist’s Dates: Edmonds, WA Tide Walks
A stay-cation means a trip to the Edmonds waterfront. Edmonds reminds me of South Haven, Michigan ~ my favorite retreat when I lived in Chicago. I was ecstatic to discover […]
Artist’s Date: Mill Creek, WA Trails
My late cousin Judith Vollbracht was a cartographer (she drew maps for a living). She created the maps that became the planned community of Mill Creek, Washington. It came to […]
Artist’s Date: North Creek Park, Mill Creek, WA
Mill Creek, WA celebrates reforested old-growth wetlands. North Creek Park is a huge urban wetland with a 3/4 mile floating boardwalk. This massive old growth tree is at the south entrance […]
Artist’s Date: Susan Wiggs and Elizabeth Wiggs Maas on New Day Northwest
Susan Wiggs, my favorite author, and her daughter Elizabeth Wiggs Maas were on New Day Northwest this morning to promote their new book How I Planned Your Wedding: The All-True […]
Artist’s Date: Virtual Trip to the Caribbean
Fishing Village, Aruba Stressed out? Wish you were in the Caribbean? Comcast has a very cool On Demand feature called the Windows Channel which you can find within the Get […]
Artist’s Date: Neighborhood Birds & Critters
The Byrds: Bella, Rocky, Angel III, Ziggy Animals are a superb antidote to PTSD intense episodes. My Byrds are excellent music critics. Three are named for composers: Pachelbel (Bella), Rachmaninoff (Rocky), […]
Chili Recipe
Tonight I’m starting a new feature on Navigating Uncharted Waters: recipes that can be made with ingredients primarily from a food bank. My chili is the dish my friends most […]
Artist’s Date: Pike Place Market with Barbara Bentley
Barbara Bentley, author of A Dance with the Devil: A True Story of Marriage to a Psychopath, is a great photographer as well as writer and wine maker. She and […]
Anne Caroline Drake 