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health

CPAP Machines Aren't Sexy, but Neither Is Chronic Exhaustion

Helping Someone With Hoarding Disorder Takes Time and Patience

Helping Someone With Hoarding Disorder Takes Time and Patience

Like most people, Jaime Fratilla thought loud, excessive snoring was the hallmark of sleep apnea. Because Fratilla doesn't snore, she was surprised when her partner, Jordan, suggested she get a sleep study.

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Helping Someone With Hoarding Disorder Takes Time and Patience

Helping Someone With Hoarding Disorder Takes Time and Patience

Helping Someone With Hoarding Disorder Takes Time and Patience

For years, Alexandra Berrie and her husband, Zak, had been dealing with conflicting levels of cleanliness in their home, or what she calls "the organization versus chaos spectrum," but as they got older, the fights began to intensify.

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Why I’m Stockpiling Reproductive Health Meds

Helping Someone With Hoarding Disorder Takes Time and Patience

Why I’m Stockpiling Reproductive Health Meds

Despite being safer than penicillin and Viagra, mifepristone remains under attack by conservatives seeking a nationwide ban. The abortion pill, as mifepristone is commonly known, has been available in the U.S. for 25 years.

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travel

A Weekend Getaway to the Least-Crowded Island in the PNW

This Washington Village is Like Entering a Bavarian Snow Globe

This Washington Village is Like Entering a Bavarian Snow Globe

Seagulls duck and dive around the ferry dock as a line of cars load onto the Whatcom Chief. To test my ferry karma, I purposefully didn’t consult the schedule—a risky endeavor...

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This Washington Village is Like Entering a Bavarian Snow Globe

This Washington Village is Like Entering a Bavarian Snow Globe

This Washington Village is Like Entering a Bavarian Snow Globe

Eagles soar over a European Tudor-style village serving German food, beer, and desserts, while the distinctly playful sounds of polka music drift from the downtown gazebo...

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My Life on the Road as a Traveling House and Pet Sitter

This Washington Village is Like Entering a Bavarian Snow Globe

My Life on the Road as a Traveling House and Pet Sitter

Before leaving on their four-week European vacation, my hosts warned me about their dog’s compulsion for hoovering up discarded marijuana butts and other dangerous substances...

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technology

How Law Firms Can Use Technology to Be More Client Focused

Running a Real Estate Empire from Rural Oregon with Fiber Internet

How Law Firms Can Use Technology to Be More Client Focused

The COVID-19 pandemic has removed any doubt that for firms to remain competitive, they must embrace and invest in technology that will better serve the customer and reduce costs.

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The CDC Protects the World. Azaleos Protects Their Email.

Running a Real Estate Empire from Rural Oregon with Fiber Internet

How Law Firms Can Use Technology to Be More Client Focused

With email as the CDC’s primary means of broadcast messag-

ing and communication with doctors throughout the world –and nearly 24,000 users spread across 50 countries...

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Running a Real Estate Empire from Rural Oregon with Fiber Internet

Running a Real Estate Empire from Rural Oregon with Fiber Internet

Running a Real Estate Empire from Rural Oregon with Fiber Internet

When Chris Suarez and his family decided to move to a scenic winery in Oregon’s remote Tualatin Valley, they knew fast, reliable internet was a must. With more than 800...

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PUBLIC RELATIONS

Island Soul Thriving after Coronavirus

Twitch Partner Levels Up with Fiber Internet

Twitch Partner Levels Up with Fiber Internet

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, restaurants across the nationhave lost more revenue and jobs than any other industry, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. A survey from the...

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Twitch Partner Levels Up with Fiber Internet

Twitch Partner Levels Up with Fiber Internet

Twitch Partner Levels Up with Fiber Internet

With millions of Twitch viewers consuming 61 million hours of daily content and professional gamers generating hundreds of thousands of dollars each month in revenue, the live streaming...

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JPMorgan Chase Invests in Southeast Seattle

Twitch Partner Levels Up with Fiber Internet

JPMorgan Chase Invests in Southeast Seattle

Rainier Valley Community Development Fund has announced a $250,000 commitment to address the immediate economic challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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parenting

I'm an Empty Nester Who Gave Up My Home to Travel Full-Time

Sharing Custody is Brutal During the Holidays. Here’s How I Coped.

Sharing Custody is Brutal During the Holidays. Here’s How I Coped.

My youngest daughter was approaching her senior year in high school when she announced that she wanted to live with her dad. I was shocked.  I'd been a single mom with primary...

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Sharing Custody is Brutal During the Holidays. Here’s How I Coped.

Sharing Custody is Brutal During the Holidays. Here’s How I Coped.

Sharing Custody is Brutal During the Holidays. Here’s How I Coped.

I sobbed as I sat surrounded by the remnants of Christmas morning – half-eaten cinnamon rolls, discarded wrapping, and little piles of presents my three and six-year-old daughters...

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Helping My Kids through College after a Devastating Divorce

Sharing Custody is Brutal During the Holidays. Here’s How I Coped.

Helping My Kids through College after a Devastating Divorce

Growing up, I didn't know anyone who worked in an office, had never heard of a marketing department, and couldn't tell you what "CEO" stood for if my life depended on it.

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personal essays

I Followed My Boyfriend to Arizona. He Bailed. I Stayed.

I Thought My Sister And I Would Be There For Each Other Through Anything.

I'm an Empty Nester Who Gave Up My Home to Travel Full-Time.

Twenty-six and together since high school, Forest and I had backpacked throughout the Pacific Northwest, driven from California to Maine and back in a Volkswagen bus, and camped under the stars in 35 national parks. 

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I'm an Empty Nester Who Gave Up My Home to Travel Full-Time.

I Thought My Sister And I Would Be There For Each Other Through Anything.

I'm an Empty Nester Who Gave Up My Home to Travel Full-Time.

My youngest daughter was approaching her senior year in high school when she announced that she wanted to live with her dad. I was shocked. I'd been a single mom with primary...

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I Thought My Sister And I Would Be There For Each Other Through Anything.

I Thought My Sister And I Would Be There For Each Other Through Anything.

I Thought My Sister And I Would Be There For Each Other Through Anything.

As a kid, I always felt safer when my baby sister and I shared a room, holding hands through the bars of her crib as our mom drank herself to sleep in the next room. So 30 years later, watching her testify against me in my divorce/custody trial was especially painful. 

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