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Last Christmas, I wrote about Desiree’s Dolls at the Ballard Market. Stone took a holiday away from the market from Christmas until the Superbowl, but...

In his inaugural blog post on Bandcamp, Andrew Dubber wrote about the trade-offs that come from being a musical omnivore. On the one hand, you...

Seeing a book on at the bookstore with my friend’s name on the spine gives me a vicarious thrill- but I open the book with...

I confess to a contrarian streak. If someone (especially an authority figure) tells me to do something, I will do the opposite. If everyone says...

My favorite yoga teacher, Tami Hafzallah, often tells her students to take the variation or pose “that your body is craving today.” For a long...