“Island Senior” is a reg­u­lar col­umn on the San Juan Update writ­ten by Peg­gy Sue McRae. Any way you look at it, 2020 has been one heck of a year. Times have been tough for many islanders. For some of us, stay­ing at home with­out our usu­al social inter­ac­tions has been the brunt of it. That has  Con­tin­ue Reading

“Island Senior” is a reg­u­lar col­umn on the San Juan Update writ­ten by Peg­gy Sue McRae. Pret­ty sure Mer­le Hag­gard was not think­ing about a spik­ing glob­al pan­dem­ic when he penned the lyrics to his clas­sic coun­try song, If We Make It Through Decem­ber, yet I can’t think of a more fit­ting song for wrap­ping up  Con­tin­ue Reading

“Island Senior” is a reg­u­lar col­umn on the San Juan Update writ­ten by Peg­gy Sue McRae. Islanders are cre­ative resource­ful peo­ple. For everyone’s health and to see our way through this pan­dem­ic, hol­i­days will be a lit­tle dif­fer­ent this year. That does not mean we can­not cel­e­brate, enjoy good food, share with our loved ones even  Con­tin­ue Reading

Island Senior is a reg­u­lar col­umn on the San Juan Update writ­ten by Peg­gy Sue McRae. How are we doing? Eight months into this pan­dem­ic and we are all tired of it; tired of stay­ing home, tired of wear­ing masks, tired of wash­ing our hands all the time. It is easy to get lulled into feel­ing  Con­tin­ue Reading

Island Senior is a reg­u­lar col­umn on the San Juan Update writ­ten by Peg­gy Sue McRae… The con­cept of “blue zones” grew out of a demo­graph­ic study iden­ti­fy­ing Sar­di­na, Italy as a region with a high con­cen­tra­tion of cen­te­nar­i­ans. Researchers who drew con­cen­tric blue cir­cles on maps high­light­ing vil­lages of extreme longevi­ty began to refer to  Con­tin­ue Reading

Edi­tor’s Note — This sto­ry is being re-post­ed with cor­rect­ed infor­ma­tion. The flu shot clin­ic at the Mullis Cen­ter will actu­al­ly be on Thurs­day the 15th from 1:30pm to 4pm. *Not* the 13th as pre­vi­ous­ly post­ed. Island Senior is a reg­u­lar col­umn on the San Juan Update writ­ten by Peg­gy Sue McRae… As we enjoy these  Con­tin­ue Reading

Its wild­fire sea­son in the west and air qual­i­ty is bad. Every­one, but espe­cial­ly those of us with com­pro­mis­ing health issues are rec­om­mend­ed to stay indoors with win­dows closed and avoid breath­ing the par­tic­u­lates in the smokey air as much as pos­si­ble. You can check cur­rent air qual­i­ty on the web­site Pur­ple Air. In my  Con­tin­ue Reading

One of the first things on anybody’s list of how to live a good life pan­dem­ic or not is to get some phys­i­cal exer­cise. For me this can be a chal­lenge in the best of times. Being quar­an­tined by myself has made find­ing the moti­va­tion to get mov­ing near­ly impos­si­ble, near­ly, but not entire­ly. I  Con­tin­ue Reading

It may seem qui­et at the Mullis Cen­ter these days with­out our live­ly com­mu­ni­ty lunch­es, excit­ing senior trips, and the wide vari­ety of social gath­er­ings that are all on hold right now. Take a clos­er look though and you will see that the Mullis Cen­ter is still hum­ming along on our seniors’ behalf. With the  Con­tin­ue Reading

A new flag is fly­ing over the Mullis Cen­ter. The flag is a gift to the Mullis Cen­ter from the fam­i­ly of Mar­gret Lack­ey in hon­or of their moth­er, grand­moth­er, and great-grand­moth­er. Not only has the Lack­ey fam­i­ly pro­vid­ed the Mullis Cen­ter with a new flag, they also gen­er­ous­ly over­saw long need­ed repairs to the  Con­tin­ue Reading

Island Senior is a reg­u­lar col­umn on the San Juan Update writ­ten by Peg­gy Sue McRae… Accord­ing to Wikipedia, cab­in fever refers to “claus­tro­pho­bic irri­tabil­i­ty or rest­less­ness expe­ri­enced when a per­son, or group, is stuck at an iso­lat­ed loca­tion or in con­fined quar­ters for an extend­ed peri­od of time”. Any­body relate? They go on to say… “Cab­in  Con­tin­ue Reading

Island Senior is a reg­u­lar col­umn on the San Juan Update writ­ten by Peg­gy Sue McRae… With the pres­sure and stress of open­ing up our des­ti­na­tion vaca­tion island only to then slow the open­ing back down, the arrival of vis­i­tors with and with­out masks, spik­ing COVID num­bers across the nation, not to men­tion pro­longed iso­la­tion, a  Con­tin­ue Reading

Island Senior is a reg­u­lar col­umn on the San Juan Update writ­ten by Peg­gy Sue McRae… It’s June and gar­dens on the island are bur­geon­ing with new life. At the Mullis Cen­ter more than foliage and flow­ers has sprung up. Among the green­ery on the east side of the build­ing you will now find poems thanks  Con­tin­ue Reading

Island Senior is a reg­u­lar col­umn on the San Juan Update writ­ten by Peg­gy Sue McRae… It is sum­mer in the San Juans and San Juan Coun­ty has moved into Phase 2 of our state’s four-phased Safe Start Wash­ing­ton plan. What does this mean for island seniors as local busi­ness­es slow­ly begin to open up, the  Con­tin­ue Reading

Island Senior is a reg­u­lar col­umn on the San Juan Island Update writ­ten by Peg­gy Sue McRae… Its been a few months now of stay­ing home and stay­ing healthy, of wear­ing masks and gloves to the gro­cery store, of stay­ing six feet apart from friends we’d real­ly like to hug, of meet­ings on Zoom. How are  Con­tin­ue Reading

Island Senior is a reg­u­lar col­umn on the San Juan Update writ­ten by Peg­gy Sue McRae… With com­mu­ni­ty lunch­es on hold due to COVID-19 it may seem like not much is hap­pen­ing these days at the Mullis Cen­ter. How­ev­er, since the lock­down, the num­ber of meals deliv­ered to local seniors by our Meals on Wheels nutri­tion  Con­tin­ue Reading