Recently, I was asked whether my job has affected my taste in music. It’s an interesting question and a thing I’d never considered until that moment. I believe I answered something along the lines that my job has not as much altered my taste as it has facilitated the discovery of music that might not otherwise have shown up on my radar.

Or at least that’s what I think I said. It’s what I meant to say, anyway.

Some of the most interesting music I’ve come across in my…

Viewing transformation in action is one of the things Pauline Smith loves about her job.

As the executive director of the Skagit Adult Day Program—a nonprofit whose mission is to preserve dignity and promote quality of life for seniors with special needs via guided activities and socialization—Smith says the changes she witnesses in both seniors and their family members after a month spent interacting with staff and peers is nothing less than remarkable.

“When a family first comes…

Not far from the massive, barn-like studio where David Syre spends long periods of time painting, he used to milk a Guernsey cow named Molly and sell the fresh dairy product to neighbors for 25 cents a gallon.

To say Syre has come a long way since those early days on his family’s sprawling farmstead along the Nooksack River near Everson is a bit of an understatement.

At 78, the former lawyer and successful real estate developer has spent much of the past decade in pursuit of the…

If you’re looking for a slice of paradise this summer, look no further than Feather’s Cove on Maurelle Island.

This small, barely known isle in the Discovery Passage of British Columbia is home to the Flow Wilderness Retreat, a small, family-owned destination where guests spend five all-inclusive days kayaking across the clear, aquiline water. They take soul-nourishing forest walks to pristine lakes no one has heard of and end their days in a cedar-fueled hot tub overlooking a bay…

Living in the modern age means you can easily summon someone to deliver a pepperoni pizza to your doorstep or have grocery store employees do your shopping for you. And when it comes to other food choices where convenience is key, it’s also possible to have farm-fresh fare delivered directly to your front porch, workplace or agreed-upon drop spot.

To find out more about that third option, you’ll want to schedule time to stop by Sustainable Connections’ and Tilth Alliance’s fourth…

For the average layperson, it would be difficult to explain the formulas and theories that led American astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt to discover a means to measure the distance to faraway galaxies.

During the time frame when she paved the way for modern astronomy’s understanding of the structure and scale of the universe, most people probably would have assumed Leavitt couldn’t provide the answers, either—not because she wasn’t whip-smart, but because she was a woman.

When…