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

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

Here’s a little story from our friend Derek Sivers: 232 sand dollars When I was 22, I lived alone on the Oregon Coast for a year, just practicing, recording, dreaming, and going for 10-mile runs in the sand. I had been coming to this beach since I was a baby, and had spent hundreds of  Continue Reading

I don’t mind if you tell me you need to relax, but don’t tell me there’s nothing to do! Let’s look around a bit: • The Friday Harbor High basketball season gets underway this Saturday with games at 4:30pm & 6pm at home – see you there! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ • You know that Holiday Festival deal  Continue Reading

You know how grey & windy it was last Thursday…the seas were heaving & crashing on our usually calm shores…here are some glimpses from the west side of the activity ’round the shore. You can click on the photos to make them larger! ++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++ • Alex Shapiro took video outside her window & posted  Continue Reading

It was great the way dozens of people came together to make the Community Thanksgiving Dinner come together (you saw the video before) – here’s the backstory, by Minnie Knych: Another great Community Thanksgiving Dinner at the San Juan Grange Thanksgiving at the Grange was a day of sharing and caring as more than 400  Continue Reading

Living on an island is cool, but living on a literate island is even cooler.  Here are four books (including three presentations) that I know you like. Here’s the scoop: • Nancy at Griffin Bay Bookstore reports they’re presenting Caryl Sherpa this Friday (the 2nd) at 7pm…here’s more: I TASTE FIRE, EARTH, RAIN: Elements of  Continue Reading