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Kick-off Dinner to the Kick-off Lunch

August 31st, 2010 No Comments

Spend five minutes chewing the fat with Dr. Kevin Danaher and it’s anyone’s guess where the conversation will lead you. I just returned from breaking bread with the Executive Director of Global Exchange and the keynote speaker for tomorrow’s Sustainable September Kick-off Luncheon at the Masonic Temple. If tonight was the appetizer, I can’t wait for [...]

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Runway Renegades Recap

August 27th, 2010 7 Comments

By Taylor Weech Spokane has a style all it’s own: a mix of high and low brow, city and country, grungy and funky. Beyond the surface of chain stores at the mall we have a growing array of local shopping options, many of which are run by young entrepreneurs. Boutiques like Swank and Lolo, vintage [...]

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Vote for Unity in the Community

August 10th, 2010 2 Comments

While it has yet to reach the same level of mass hysteria wrought by “Hey Google, Pick Spokane”, another nationwide competition has taken hold in our town. This time the aim is to win $25,000 to support Unity in the Community, an annual celebration of diverse cultures and people in Spokane. For those of you [...]

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Salvation Farmy Reflection

July 18th, 2010 5 Comments

There are things people need, and then there are things people need on multiple levels. A garden is one of those things that will enrich the bodies, minds and spirits of generations to come. But before there was a plan to build a garden at the Salvation Army campus on Indiana, there was a motley [...]

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Summer Parkways

July 9th, 2010 2 Comments

When I rode by myself to meet the other volunteers for the inaugural Summer Parkways, I had that familiar first date feeling in my stomach like “yeeaaah.” Scientifically known as butterflies. What will happen, I thought, since this has never been done in Spokane? It felt like a historical moment with over half of the [...]

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Turnips, Poop and Social Media

July 7th, 2010 1 Comment

Last week I sat in on a LaunchPad Social Media panel with Chris Pirillo at the Crosby Theater. Between Bill’s cheeky sense of humor and Chris’s propensity to shock and opine, the audience went home thoroughly edutained at the end of the night. Photo by Mark Anthony I knew I had a unique perspective on [...]

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B-Ball by the Numbers

June 29th, 2010 2 Comments

Basketball is a numbers game. From twenty feet away, the idea of putting an inflatable ball with a diameter of roughly nine and a half inches into a basket that is eighteen inches across and ten feet from the ground should defy physics. But that is precisely what happened countless times this last weekend with [...]

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Sweet Spot City

June 21st, 2010 22 Comments

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately … I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. The reasons Thoreau once gave for his retreat into the forest near Walden Pond are eerily similar to our own reasons for moving to Spokane last month after ten years [...]

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Holy Local Lovin’

June 18th, 2010 6 Comments

My quest to find more substantial love in the Lilac City took an interesting turn one night when I met The Priest. The Priest was everything I was looking for in a man; witty, passionate, good looking, and able to engage in serious conversation. He challenged me in a way few men had. His passion was [...]

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Bike WASHington

June 14th, 2010 4 Comments

Now is the balmy time of year when volley ball teams and church youth groups start to get their car wash on. But what about a bike wash? After a rainy winter and spring my bike looks like a work horse that has been ridden hard and put away wet. My spokes are covered in [...]

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