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Video: A Seattle Drag Queen's Visit to the Pot Shop

Video: A Seattle Drag Queen’s Visit to the Pot Shop

This article originally appeared on The Fresh Toast.  Marijuana retail stores are among the most inclusive establishments you’ll visit in Seattle. If you have cash and an ID that shows you are 21 or older, you’re welcome to shop. As marijuana becomes more normalized in the Northwest, many cannabis curious consumers have questions. Mama Tits,…

Value-Based Health Plans: Healing Medicine?

Value-Based Health Plans: Healing Medicine?

Our medical costs are out of control. Some local companies are trying value-based health plans. Are they the answer?

Sabrina McKinney faced an important decision two years ago.  It was Boeing’s annual open enrollment period, when employees choose a health plan for the following year. McKinney, now in her 39th year with the company, chose something new: a “value-based” health plan. It meant a small monthly health insurance deduction from her paycheck and access…

Recipe of the Week: Fennel-Beet Borscht

Recipe of the Week: Fennel-Beet Borscht

We tend to overindulge during the winter holidays. Keep up your energy and spare yourself holiday pounds by opting for healthy home-cooked meals when possible, like this light, but filling soup

Warm up with a sweet, savory bowl of borscht

Road Trip: Sandpoint, Idaho

Road Trip: Sandpoint, Idaho

It’s the definitive Pacific Northwest winter wonderland

Schweitzer Mountain, whose $5 million, 9,000 square foot lodge debuts in December

Holiday Party Prep: Ready Your Supplies

Holiday Party Prep: Ready Your Supplies

This article originally appeared on Houzz.com. Why wait until the day before your party to find out you’re short on coffee mugs and the silver is tarnished? Get a jump on things by sorting out your entertaining supplies, shopping for missing pieces and making room in your kitchen … before you come home with five…

Recipe of the Week: Kale Gougères

Recipe of the Week: Kale Gougères

These delicate, one-bite appetizers set the tone for a festive night

12 Home Hot Spots for Holiday Decorating

12 Home Hot Spots for Holiday Decorating

This article originally appeared on Houzz.com. Time to dust off those boxes in the garage and clean the spiderwebs from the garland stored in the basement. The holidays are upon us. My two youngest boys have holiday radar. As soon as October 1 hits and the air chills at night, they know it’s time for…

Windermere's W Collection: A High Point Market

Windermere’s W Collection: A High Point Market

This $10 million 1933 home was commissioned by nautical author James A. Gibbs, who later moved to an Oregon Coast lighthouse; meticulously restored, it is a typically lavish luxury property from Windermere’s W Collection

Recipe of the Week: Harissa-Roasted Acorn Squash

Recipe of the Week: Harissa-Roasted Acorn Squash

Harissa-Roasted Acorn Squash: mild spices mingle with hearty squash for the perfect cold weather dish

Spend Less Without Being a Grinch: 8 Holiday Ideas

Spend Less Without Being a Grinch: 8 Holiday Ideas

Give meaningful gifts and use nature's decor to work holiday magic without blowing your budget

This article originally appeared on Houzz.com. Between the endless stream of holiday music, window displays and festive events, the holiday season can sometimes feel like a never-ending parade of opportunities to blow the budget. But when you set and stick with a budget you feel comfortable with, you are bound to feel better, and probably…

Methow Valley Meets Vermont in This AIA Home of Distinction

Methow Valley Meets Vermont in This AIA Home of Distinction

Architect David Coleman’s “Hill House” perches on a narrow, rocky ridge line above Winthrop. The 1,100-square-foot house is flanked by gabion stone walls, made from the spoils of the site excavation, creating a bridge between building and landscape

Office Space, Reimagined: An 80 Square Foot Work Space Doubles as Family Room

Office Space, Reimagined: An 80 Square Foot Work Space Doubles as Family Room

Cutler’s wife Beth sits at the built-in drafting desk, ensconced among the trees

Vashon Island's Tiniest House Is Big in Spirit

Vashon Island’s Tiniest House Is Big in Spirit

Brenna and Jean-David Larson read to daughters Aurelie (left) and Eloise in the meditation pavilion designed by Bosworth Hoedemaker behind their Vashon Island home.

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