Ron Judd’s HELP!!-ful guide to navigating our ‘new normal’ VIEW
Professional WFH-er Ron Judd offers a highly unserious, but maybe actually helpful, guide to Life in the New Normal to help us navigate with self-awareness...
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Finding connection in a time of angst — even when some of that angst feels a little like WFH whining
There is nothing amusing about a global pandemic, of course, but there is some room (and maybe even need) for a lighter-hearted look at common...
Why does Washington have so many dismal place names?
Ron Judd explores the origins — and the staying power — of some of Washington's gloomiest place names. Most came about when times were tough....
Ron Judd feels all warm and fuzzy after a bear encounter
A close encounter with a more-brown-than-black black bear in 2008 near Mount Rainier's Paradise parking lot reminds Ron Judd that bears just do what bears...
Washington is named for a president who owned slaves. Should it be? VIEW
We see our state name so often, it's become nearly invisible. But what's behind our "Washington," and who was our first president, really? Even more...
Who WAS this Washington guy, and why are we named after him?
In the context of current events and long-ago history, Ron Judd researches the naming of our state, including recent scholarship about Washington as a person,...
Quick as a (cool, damp, suddenly no-longer-summer) breeze, here’s autumn
There's no way to ease into fall, which is almost here. And that's fine with some of us longtime residents, who welcome cooler temperatures and...
Pacific magazine debuted 40 years ago. Yeah — we’re gonna celebrate that. VIEW
Ron Judd explores the history, and longevity, of Pacific magazine, one of only a handful of its kind. The Seattle Times has produced a weekly...
A meta commemoration of this magazine, in this magazine, for this magazine — which we really, really hope you haven’t tossed
Ron Judd explains the research and discovery involved in reporting the story of Pacific NW magazine's 40th anniversary. Hint: There was a lot of navel-gazing...
Twisp mayor’s leadership through 3 devastating disasters has forged an inspiring sense of community and resiliency VIEW
Since resettling in Twisp and becoming mayor a decade ago, Soo Ing-Moody has steered the town through three federally declared disasters; been re-elected three times;...