When thinking about where you grew up, which is it? “You can’t go home again;” or “plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose” (French for “the more things change the more they stay the same”)?

What a busy time we live in. Everyone wants things done instantly. We want our computers to process stuff faster and faster and we want our food delivered sooner and generally we are all running out of patience when it comes to waiting for things to happen. I hate to say it but it is no different in the gardening world, especially when it comes to bulbs.

Fans of the Peanuts comic strips by Charles Schultz will feel right at home watching Henry M. Jackson High School’s 2013 production of Clark Gesner's two act musical, “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” Thursday, October 31 through Saturday, November 2, and Thursday, November 7 through Saturday, November 9 at 7 pm.

In India, kitchari is a hearty porridge made from rice and mung beans that is loaded with yummy Indian spices. It is considered a cleansing food and is used to purify digestion and nourish and heal the body.

Ayurveda believes all disease (and therefore all healing) begins in the gut. The concept is simple. When you give your body a single, completely nourishing food that is easy to digest your body has energy to eliminate toxins and heal.

Managing weeds is one of those gardening chores that can seem like an endless job. As soon as you finish one bed it’s time to start over on another. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could just weed once a year and be done with it? Read on for some tips that will almost get you to that point.

As I am writing this column on the last days of September it is raining vigorously and I am feeling like fall is definitely in the air. But as you read this in early October the forecasters are predicting a 75 degree weekend so you decide if it is the end of summer or the beginning of fall.

Don’t waste this opportunity to do some last minute tweaking before winter comes to stay.

The word liver has its roots in the Old English word for life, and from what I have discovered this is true. For the last three months I have been taking an incredible women’s herb class with Tera Warner. We have covered a range of topics including menopause, skin health, detoxing, digestion, immune function and weight loss to name a few.

Mill Creek resident Mary Kay Voss and Cowlitz tribe member Dr. Robin LaDue released their co-written book “Totems of September” on September 29, 2013, a historical fiction of personal stories that "examine the events of September 11, 2001 and the aftermath from a non-political viewpoint."