“Hanging with the locals: dreamers, doers, and mermaids—keeping the fairy tale alive or maybe I’m just lost on island time.”
An Earth Day Special on Chocolate: Fair trade vs. Big Chocolate and WTF is Dubai Chocolate?
We’ve come a long way from grabbing whatever major name brand chocolate happened to be on the grocery store shelf. Usually, it comes in the form of Nestle and Hershey products. One of my favorites growing up was the Almond Joy. That sweet milk chocolate wrapped around fluffy coconut and the subtle almond lump that…
From Ferry to Bohemia: A Mom-and-Pop Taste of Prague Between Whidbey and Mukilteo
Just across our small pond, the Puget Sound. The Salish Sea. Whatever you identify our surrounding body of water as, there sits a little outpost called Mukilteo. I love hearing people attempt to pronounce it if they have never passed through. Its name comes from Lushootseed, the language of the Snohomish people and other Coast…
The Return of the Third Place: Salad Design
When I try to describe to people what exactly is going on in the old yellow cottage on First Street, they look perplexed, yet still intrigued. What was once In the Country boutique and more recently Alma’s Kids outpost, the cottage had been emptied out yet again. Upon passing by the yellow cottage recently, I…
Isle Chronicles 