This beautiful photo was taken a couple of weeks ago by photographer Michele Wassell when she was visiting the islands & out on a whale watching trip with Jim Maya. She has beautiful photos, and she has a beautiful thing going on with her daughter, Kayla. It’s a great story of the great love a  Continue Reading

Yep, it starts this Friday at Wold Road…here’s the scoop! See you there!

Hey, remember I told you about islander Keith Busha‘s film Dreams of Damanhur? (you’ll remember in my review of it, I reported it was freakin’ awesome, or something to that effect.) Well, tomorrow (Thursday), Keith will be interviewed on KKNW (AM1150 – they say they are  Seattle’s #1 alternative talk radio)….he’ll be interviewed about Damanhur  Continue Reading

Let’s see what’s up ’round here… • This summer marks Port of Friday Harbor Port Director Marilyn O’Connor‘s 25th year with the Port…she told me last night how lucky she is to be here, and I would add that we’re lucky to have her, both as bookkeeper/accountant for so many years & now as Director.  Continue Reading

To know her is to love her – Jessica Oldwyn‘s bright cheerful spirit & light-up-the-room smile made friends here on the island (she’s a 1998 grad of Friday Harbor High) and in her current home on the river in Wenatchee. Well, friends of hers have put together a fundraiser for Friday, July 23 – an  Continue Reading

She is one of the island’s quiet but brightest treasures…. author & teacher Janet Thomas wrote the definitive study of the WTO protests in ’99 (The Battle in Seattle) and numerous other pieces. She offering a series of workshops this summer that will change the way you look at things, and the way you write.  Continue Reading

Cynthia Stark-Wickman tells me that her husband Gunnar has a new undertaking underway, with the help & support of Cynthia and their two daughters, Lara & Audrey… here’s the writeup about San Juan Water Taxi, and here’s more from Cynthia: Hey, Ian! Our family started up a new business this summer, San Juan Islands Water  Continue Reading

Andrea from the Lighthouse Preschool Board has news: Lighthouse Preschool Welcomes Teachers Amy Pauls and Autumn Hallock Lighthouse Preschool Board and Friday Harbor Presbyterian Church are delighted to introduce their Preschool Co-teachers for the 2010-2011 school year.  The Board has created a co-teaching Team by hiring two women who love to teach preschoolers, have had  Continue Reading

Fearless reader of the Update: It is my hope that you wake every day either looking for poems to read & feel, or looking to share poems like that, or maybe to find the words, ideas & feelings to build poems of your own to share (like flowers from your garden, or cookies you just  Continue Reading

Laura‘s taking off after Wednesday, but there’s a going away thing at the Library on Wednesday at 5…be sure & come by! Here’s more in a press release from the Library folks: Laura Tretter, director of the San Juan Island Library since 2006, announced that she will be leaving to accept a position with the  Continue Reading