Thursday, October 1, 2026
|
I truly don’t understand the argument about personal rights when it comes to wearing a mask -- or get vaccinated.
What it resembles is what one hears from a child when they don’t …
more
|
|
Dear Lexis,
I’ve been offered the opportunity to pursue some new projects but I don’t feel like I have the time for all of them. They all seem equally valuable though, and I …
more
By Alexis Rae Baker
|
8/16/21
|
|
Gertrude Jekyll, a wonderfully eccentric artist and gardener, was born in London in 1843 and spent most of her life in the English countryside. She was the author of several gardening books that …
more
By Jill Severn
|
8/13/21
|
|
Since Olympia wasn’t founded until 1853, it’s a safe bet most of our ancestors came from somewhere else in the beginning.
For instance, my education began in 1950 in a one-room …
more
|
|
Usually in The Daily JOLT newsletter's Thurston County Trivia department we tell you about fun and hallowed "Days" and other commemorations. You know, National Julienne Fries Day (this …
more
|
|
|
Dear Lexis,
I’m worried. My husband has been really quiet and angry lately and I don’t know why. I keep asking him if something’s wrong but that just seems to piss him off even …
more
By Alexis Rae Baker
|
8/9/21
|
|
|
Gardeners learn something new in every growing season.
In the last few months, readers of this column have shared what they have learned, what they want to know, and their creative ideas. …
more
By Jill Severn
|
8/6/21
|
|
Well, here we are again – pretty much stuck at home. Home for me is with my daughter and her husband, so I am lucky – no total isolation.
Ordinarily my granddaughters would be next …
more
By Kathleen Anderson
|
8/4/21
|
|
Dear Readers,
I’ve been a bit obsessed lately with trying to make a decent living place for my future newborn, which is interesting because I’ve always been a “go with the …
more
By Alexis Rae Baker
|
8/2/21
|
|
|
A walk through Mt. Rainier wildflowers can sure make a gardener humble. Nothing we can do will ever match the sight of a drift of avalanche lilies or a patch of paintbrush, alpine asters, rosy spirea …
more
|
|
|
In another life I owned a little café in a tiny town in California. When I say tiny – I mean the town had two bars, a mom-and-pop grocery store, a feed …
more
By Kathleen Anderson
|
7/28/21
|
|
|
It’s absolutely fascinating what’s happening to policing in our community resulting from the new state laws, and what our local jurisdictions are doing in response to new ideas, new …
more
|
|
|
Dear Lexis,
I’ve been trying to declutter my house for the last few weeks, but I’ve determined that I can’t tackle the project alone. I hold too much sentiment to things and I …
more
By Alexis Rae Baker
|
7/26/21
|
|
being on the right side of history is not for sissies
Hikers are flooding our public …
more
|
|
|
It’s time to revel in the glory of high summer – this annual peak experience of beauty and abundance in the garden, on the barbecue grill and at the beach. It’s time to call in …
more
By Jill Severn
|
7/23/21
|
|
|
I have long had a love/hate relationship with telephones. When I was a kid, we had a three-digit phone number, an operator to whom we repeated the …
more
By Kathleen Anderson
|
7/21/21
|
|
Washington state Rep. Jim Walsh (R-Aberdeen) recently made a mistake by misusing a symbol of the Holocaust -- wearing a yellow Star of David in protest of COVID-19 restrictions. It was apparently …
more
|
|
|
Dear Lexis,
People often tell me that my expectations in life are too high. They tell me that my dreams are impossible and that I shouldn’t keep trying to pursue such lofty goals. I know …
more
By Alexis Rae Baker
|
7/19/21
|
|
|
Years ago my 15-year-old foster daughter asked me a question I’ll never forget: Why, she inquired, do you make a beautiful garden in the back yard, but not the front yard? Don’t you think …
more
By Jill Severn
|
7/16/21
|
|
|
Okay, folks, it’s time for some fun! Now that we have been allowed back into society it’s time to remember there is more out there than the grocery store.
For instance…the …
more
By Kathleen Anderson
|
7/14/21
|