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After an earthquake: The art of managing pee and poop

Perhaps you remember Tarō Gomi’s 1970s bestselling children’s picture book, Everyone Poops, featuring illustrations of all manner of animals relieving themselves, creating squealing delight for most children, along with consternation for some adults. In today’s world it’s common to see people dealing with dog poop and the consternation is when poop has been left behind. Once human animals are out of diapers and “potty trained” we take for granted that toilets will manage our human dung.

Falling Awake: A familiar story

It’s a familiar story: I met someone who became my friend. And though this someone was a man, we were never more than a friendship. From his first dance class in my studio, there was something between us that might have made people think we were more, but it was never like that.

Get Growing: Creating a private sanctuary

Think of your garden as a stage set — and you are the set designer.

Lindberg: Reishi (and cousins) — fabulous fungi

Our planet is home to an estimated 1.5 million fungal species, whose properties and functions are enormously diverse.

Tree Talk: Patriotic petunias

With many days of freeze-free weather still ahead, there’s reason to add petunias to your garden.

Revisiting the Park: Stick ’em up!

Looking back on crime and punishment in the Madison Park area.

Get Growing: Pick the right roses

The Pacific Northwest is great for roses in that it tends toward warm and dry in the summer.

Your Best Life: Why I sleep on a bed of spikes

Loss of sleep can impair cognition and reaction time, and even make you crave extra carbs.

Carter: Human engagement with first-aid skills

Pockets of volunteers around the city are forming neighborhood Emergency Communication Hubs.

Revisiting the Park: The why and wherefore of Madison Park

Life in Madison Park was close to normal in the early ’50s after the Depression and WW2 had faded from memory.

Tree Talk: Bright, bold and glossy contrast

Photinia's broad leaves are a vivid, glossy copper or red from spring into summer.

Get Growing: Wallflowers take the dance floor

The name can be confusing, but the colors are vibrant.

Revisiting the Park: Fight for the memories

Remembering Madison Park school days.

Falling Awake: C’est la vie

Sanelli: Seattle is not the same city as it was before the pandemic, but I’m also not the same person.

Neighbors helping neighbors: Summer events for emergency preparedness

On June 11, many neighborhood emergency hubs and ham radio operators will participate in a city-wide simulated regional power outage.