Are you ready for the weekend? Let’s check, Beck: • Here’s the deal for the Santa sightings on the island – head to Roche Harbor tomorrow (Saturday) for their annual Block Party from 4-7pm, with the Roche Harbor Lighted Boat Parade on tap then. Then – Sunday the 11th, it’s the Lighted Boat Parade for  Continue Reading

• Let’s take a look around the island, Myron….. • Good to see you at the Community Dinner at FHHS last night…big mob in support of the kids’ cooking, with special thanks to San Juan Pasta Company for the pasta & help putting it on…way to go! ++++++++++++++++++ • Brian & Rebekah at the Mystical  Continue Reading

The library can use a hand if you have a little extra space – Birgit explains: HELP!  The Friends of the San Juan Island Library needs a new site to sort and store donated books for our annual book sales. Our former sorting and immediate storage area in the library basement was permanently damaged in  Continue Reading

You know how the music & words shape what we feel & say & do each day – it’s so cool when the poetry of our songs & verse says so clearly what is in our hearts & minds, whether it’s a cry of joy or singin’ the blues – that’s why it’s good to  Continue Reading

Courtesy of Jessica Hagy, Indexed

I’d have to say – I’m pretty excited about this. On Sunday, Filmmaker Keith Busha will be joined by Ann Marie Molnar (she works at Lavendera in town) who returned this year from spending three months living in Damanhur. Keith’s website can tell you more – much more – about Damanhur, and here’s the website  Continue Reading

If you haven’t been to the Community  Dinner that’s offered at the high school by FHHS’ Food For Thought program, you’ve been missing out, seriously. Tonight the deal is from 5:30-7:30pm…drop by! I got a chance to swing by the kitchen Tuesday night to see what was cooking:

A fave from Phil Collins:

Let’s take a quick look around: • The Wolverines are back in action tonight with basketball at FHHS – they started the season last weekend with the girls beating South Whidbey 41-35, and the boys coming close before dropping a 48-44 decision. Concrete comes visiting tonight for their first game of the season. By the  Continue Reading

It was great to see so many people turn out for last weekend’s Holiday Festival at the Community Theatre. The theatre’s biggest fundrasier of the year went very well – raising the money that needed to be raised, and getting people on the same page in support of that. But there was more than that.  Continue Reading

“When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be — I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. “I come into  Continue Reading

Here’s a note from Glenda about what Santa & she are up to: This started with a drive into town over Labor Day weekend when I saw some bicycles lined up on the side of the road with a big FREE sign in front of them.  I thought here’s an opportunity to join forces with  Continue Reading

When you’re out & about, here are some things to check out: • Whoa! Susan Feldmiller has an open house for her massage studio set for 11-3 today & Sunday at the Technology Center on Mullis Street (next to Napa Auto Parts). Besides massage, she and her studio partner Karen offer handmade lotions. Complimentary massages   Continue Reading

Thursday night at the Museum was awesome – there was a lot to like! There was plenty of food (the chili & Ivar’s clam chowder was a hit, and the cookies were all nearly gone when the evening was over, and the apple cider, too!) and the music just kept coming, with the Island Chordsmen  Continue Reading

Let’s see what’s going on ’round the town: • Tree Lighting tonight! Sing-a-long at 5, lighting at 5:30pm! Here’s the deal: Friday Harbor Tree Lighting Celebration 5:00 pm – Holiday Music and Sing-a long Children’s Creative Center ~ crafting holiday tree ornaments, Hosted by Island Rec in the Arcade Building Cookies, Coffee, & Cocoa ~  Continue Reading

Here’s an idea from Alan, sharing an idea from our friends at the Community Foundation: The Ideal Holiday Gift: A Personalized Brick at the PeaceHealth Peace Island Medical Center  Need a new holiday idea that celebrates a special event, remembers a loved one or sends a message? Inscribed bricks and dedicated garden benches at the  Continue Reading

There are lots of different ways to look at this…here’s one, by one of my favorite writers, Bill McKibben, in an essay I’ve posted each year in one form or another since the days when I was a long distance runner (now I’m a long distance walker, and that’s what I did last year for  Continue Reading