When President Obama first ran for office, he insisted that his candidacy would not even have been possible at any other time in history or anywhere else on earth. He banked on the possibility of the – until then – unthinkable. He knew that change, no matter how unlikely, would come if enough people believed in it, and he was right.
A golf tournament aimed at raising money for The Jennifer Beach Foundation, a local child abuse and domestic violence program, is looking for players and sponsors for its third annual event.
Food in a family is a precarious thing. Everyone has their likes and dislikes and finding a balance is a challenge for moms everywhere. I have learned to pick my battles.
For author Sarah Gerdes, who lives near Maple Valley, the path to publication has been nontraditional.
It is estimated that one out of five Americans enjoys spending time bird watching, or birding, and here’s a poem for some of those people by Kathleen M. McCann, who lives in Massachusetts. I especially like the way she captures the egret’s stealthy motion in the second stanza.
Maple Valley Creative Arts Center will have an Open Mic night 7:00 p.m. Saturday July 23 .
Deposits are being taken for Fundamentals of Drawing from Life with Michael class at the Maple Valley Creative Arts Center.
Homeless people, compassion and human dignity are the major topics of “The Ave.,” a new play written by Maple Valley resident Ed Corrigan.
An open audition for “THE AVE.” will be held 6:00 p.m. Monday July 25 at the Maple Valley Arts Center
Humans first prized horses for their strength and speed, but we have since been captivated by their beauty, their deep eyes and mysterious silences. Here’s a poem by Robert Wrigley, who lives in Idaho, where the oldest fossilized remains of the modern horse were found.
The Maple Valley Creative Arts Center features open mic night the second and fourth Saturday of the month at The Leaf at 7 p.m.
I usually plan my summers in January. It makes me feel warmer to plan summer camping in the middle of winter. Plus there are a lot more sites available at the state parks in the middle of winter. So I did it again this year, not anticipating the changes that were coming my way this summer.
Nine Kent School District schools were among the 77 schools in 12 districts that earned recognition this spring for their successful conservation efforts from the King County Green Schools Program.
Tickets for the upcoming play “The Ave.” will be available July 15 at www.maplevalleyarts.com.
I’ve gotten to the age at which I spend a lot of time remembering, and it’s the fragments that seem to affect me the most, fleeting glimpses into the past that leave me still reaching for something I can’t quite grasp. Here Roy Scheele, a fine Nebraska poet, perfectly captures one of those passing memories.
The band Sealth with Dace Anderson performed at the Maple Valley Farmers Market Saturday.
There will be an open mic at the Maple Valley Creative Arts Center Saturday July 9 at 7:00 p.m.
I don’t often mention literary forms, but of this lovely poem by Cecilia Woloch I want to suggest that the form, a villanelle, which uses a pattern of repetition, adds to the enchantment I feel in reading it. It has a kind of layering, like memory itself. Woloch lives and teaches in southern California.
I told my daughter to pick up the blanket and cot her friend slept on the one night. I have dowels at the end of the hall where I hang blankets.
To gather up a large blanket, fold it in a reasonably neat fashion and pull it over the dowel does take some effort, but it’s very doable, I do it all the time.
Some of us have more active fantasy lives than others, but all of us have them. Here Karin Gottshall, who lives in Vermont, shares a variety of loneliness that some of our readers may have experienced.
