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Fish Wednesday: Sunday Chicken Soup Edition

By Your Intrepid Substitute Blogger I stood in PCC in Kirkland last Wednesday and looked at the fish. I looked at the halibut cheeks (don’t like halibut), the shrimp (my little guy decided last week he doesn’t like it any more; plus we just had it), the wild Alaskan king and sockeye (I really prefer …


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Fish Wednesday: On the Dock

“What happens when you actually catch something?” I ask the sailor. He’s tall and tan in shorts and a polo neck shirt with the snorkel boat line logo on it. He’s good looking in that Magnum PI kind of way, which is funny, because we’re in Hawaii. “Well, it depends on what we catch. We …


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Dear Bakery Nouveau: I Love You.

I thought it was a passing crush, nothing more than a blush of affection based in giddiness around our departure from Capitol Hill for the broader reflective light of West Seattle. But as time has passed and I’ve visited over and over, my feelings have deepened and now, there is no denying it. Bakery Nouveau, …


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What Do You Mean You Don’t Have A Ukulele?

If you had a uke, you might have had the pleasure of having the Nikkei Horizons Ukulele Band come to play for you and your ukulele club last weekend. If you had a uke, you might have learned that the old guy in their club is 90 and the youngest 11, and you might wonder …


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