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Savvy Senior: Do I need to file a tax return this year?

Advice, tips, and tools for seniors looking to live a healthy, full life.

Drive the bus: Interrupting negative thoughts

Your Best Life: If we all repeat thoughts, why not make them more positive ones?

Get Growing: New year, new plants

Some highlights from 2024’s latest and greatest releases.

Your Best Life: The power of functional movement exercise

Functional movements focus on the exercises that give us the most freedom of mobility.

Get Growing: A new way to choose seeds

The plants we choose and the way we plant and care for them can make a difference.

Your Best Life: Tips to finally get to sleep

After a bad night, we are shadows of our best selves.

Weinbeck: Benefits of a children’s center inside a Senior Living Community

One way to build compassion is to start intergenerational exposure early.

Recipe: Every season is taco season

Weekly recipes and food ideas from Pacific Publishing.

Tree Talk: In the dark months, it's yellow that's warm

Offerings for winter yellows can be slim, but they are out there.

Your Best Life: Tiny workouts that work

There are several iterations of the micro-workout that promise big results in bite-sized time.

Mary Lou Sanelli: Letter To Rose

Rose, your email came at just the right time. Because here it is December, and I’m at a loss. Everything “holiday” has been written before. I have my doubts as to whether I can find a fresh angle. When you become a writer, Rose, you’ll understand, I promise.

Your Best Life: Can journaling reprogram your brain?

Research has shown the power of the pen in helping retain information — but some say it can it do far more.

Get Growing: Welcome to Zone 9a, Seattle!

The USDA's Hardiness Zone Map has been updated for 2023, shifting Seattle to Zone 9a — the same as the northern end of Florida.

Falling Awake: The (loud) monsters among us

A regular column from the local author of 'Every Little Thing.'

Best Life: Calm down, now, with these stress-busting techniques

Tips for those challenging moments, days, and weeks when our cortisol is running higher than we’d like.