Living Bountifully in Whatcom County
Photo courtesy Jason Weston/Joe’s Gardens. Joe Betero braiding garlic. Sold as braids and bulbs, this Joe’s Garden staple can be traced back to seeds that were brought back from Genoa, Italy. If you have lived here for any length of time, you have most likely stopped by one ofBellingham’s most beloved institutions, Joe’s Gardens. If you…
The Reality of Housing for Lower and Mid-income People in Whatcom County
We recently explored a real estate path we had not tried in Whatcom County. Purchasing a mobile home for our youngest son to live in. In our quest, we visited several properties and found an older manufactured home in a nice park for under 100K. Our son and his fiancé were thrilled they could be…
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Water access is not a guaranteed right in Whatcom County
Many take for granted that we will always have access to water in Whatcom County. After all, we live where people believe “it rains all the time.” What might come as a surprise is that Whatcom County has been in a drought for years. The rainfall measured from October through February of this year was…
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New Home Insurance Law and What it Means for Washington State Residents
Announced just a few days ago, State Farm, ranked the number one property and casualty insurance agency by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) (Lowery, 2023), announced that it will no longer offer homeowners policies to California residents. This decision, which will have more aftershocks than the earthquakes that also plague the area, was…
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Good Clean Fun
Good Clean Fun The care and keeping of one’s home has transformed through quite a history of outdated sexist ideology, strange concoctions, cultural shifts, and television shows dedicated to either one extreme of not caring for your home (hoarding) to being obsessed with how loved your socks feel in their drawer (Tidying Up with Marie…
The Power of Silence
Recently, a social media content contributor I like reminded people online to think about their reactions regarding their insistence that someone (in this case, the content creator) needed to “do what I say as I am offended by you.” This influencer responded to a torrent of hate being thrown at them with the simple yet…
Finding a Safe Place to Move for Families of Transgendered Children and Youth.
According to the Human Rights Campaign https://www.hrc.org/about, the largest LBTBQ+ lobbying organization in the United States, and Human Rights Watch https://www.hrw.org/ another human rights advocacy group, as of July of last year, 121 bills directly targeting transgender people, and youth have been proposed. (Ronan, 2021) This number is steadily climbing. These proposed bills include 36…
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Money and Happiness
How much do you really need? We have by now all seen this quote emblazoned on the side of the vans that daily swarm virtually every neighborhood in America. I like that it includes a warning because that is what this post is all about. Happiness. Does it really need to come in the form…
