Guess what I got to do last week? After the eggnog, cookies, hors d’oeuvres, turkey, ham, wine and gingerbread, I went shopping for a bathing suit. I don’t know too many middle-aged women who enjoy bathing suit shopping at any time of year. But when the holiday over-indulgence chickens have come home to roost – on my hips and thighs --bathing suit shopping is the last thing on my list. OK – maybe not the last – but it’s a close third, right behind pap smears and mammograms.
Nearly two weeks ago, Jared Lee Loughner allegedly walked up to Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and shot her once in the head. He then turned the gun on members of her staff and 17 others. Six people died, the youngest just 9 years old. Giffords remains hospitalized.
The new year is a chance to start fresh. Many of us resolve to change our ways. We promise ourselves we will go to the gym, eat less junk food or spend more time with our families.
Finally, the first Iris unguicularis bloom. It is not looking too promising to have any more this year – but I continue to hope.
So what’s a company like Seattle Opera to do when staging as familiar an opera as Rossini’s most popular masterwork “The Barber of Seville”?
If you are in the midst of your pregnancy or if you are starting out 2011 with a bun in the oven, chances are you have adopted a new lifestyle. Not only do you have to think of yourself, but you must consider every choice you make and the effects on your baby. Taking care of yourself during pregnancy requires a lifestyle change, not just a New Year’s Resolution. Without further adieu, here are some easy ways to be good to you, your baby, and the environment.
Hundreds of citizen activists from local communities around Washington state are scheduled to descend on the state capitol in Olympia on Feb. 15 to push this year’s environmental priorities with their elected representatives.
The morning cold didn’t spoil the excitement of students, teachers and volunteers as they waited eagerly outside to see what was about to happen before their eyes.
1. In a somewhat dubious honor, where was the first soft-serve ice cream served? 2. The first European record of a landing on the Washington coast was by who? 3. What is the team mascot for The Evergreen State College?
The Seattle Public Library, in collaboration with Kaplan, will offer a free SAT practice test from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 5 at the Central Library, 1000 Fourth Ave., Level 4, Rooms 1 and 2.
Dr. Lina Kim’s Dental office in Magnolia is scheduling kids for a free dental day on Friday, Feb. 4.
Labor Dispute While in route to respond to a disturbance call on Jan. 12 at 5:10 p.m. a police officer was flagged down by a man in the 2000 block of West Barrett Street. He said that there were four people putting up posters around the neighborhood that had degrading messages about himself and his business. He had been taking the posters down.
“I’m sorry, you just don’t seem to be cutting the mustard.” “It was obviously Colonel Mustard, in the dining room, with the candlestick.” “C’mon, you call yourself a pitcher? Put some mustard on it!” Mustard is a part of our cultural heritage, not just that jar of yellow stuff in the back of the cupboard only to be hauled out when the hot dogs are done.
Yellow journalism, as crafted by William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer in the 1890s, called for a little news, strident editorials and big spreads on the day’s popular pseudo-science. It required lots of crime news, plus celebrity gossip, and comic strips. It was Richard F. Outcault’s popular comic, The Yellow Kid, which gave this sector of the newspaper business its famed tagline.