In this issue

Doing good for others, then and now • Grandparents answer the school bell • Navigating a new knee • Riding the wind in a paraglider • Ode to live music • Peter Graf — a man on the run • Four seasons add spice to eastside life • Home snuggles into nature • Interior designer has the feel • Long talks with Harriet Bullitt leads to book • A Horned Lark in full display • Okandogs expands its help • Pushing away from factory food

I'm in luck: A Horned Lark in full display

I saw my first Horned Lark when I visited the Columbia Wildlife Refuge with a friend many years ago.

3 mins

Doing good for others, then and now

Over 100 years ago, America was experiencing similar things, the Spanish Flu and the First World War.

2 mins

Grandparents answer the School Bell

The pandemic has thrust some families together, with parents working from home and kids learning remotely, using a dining room or kitchen nook as a makeshift classroom.

5 mins

BREAKINGIN A NEW KNEE

When the pain becomes too much, going under a knife is the option

2 mins

Riding the wind

Perhaps you have looked up in the sky during the spring, summer or fall months and seen colorful balloon looking specks in the sky.

6 mins

ODE TO LIVE MUSIC

Remembering a time before the music stopped

4 mins

THE ATHLETIC LIFE High elevation adventures with Peter Graf — a man on the run

I had heard that Pete Graf runs all over the place, up high mountain peaks (that I have hiked and they are steep) and that he can run for hours.

5 mins

Four seasons add spice to our lives

When we moved from the west side of the state in 2016 after living in Seattle for over 60 years, we were (and still are) asked the same question by people on both sides of the mountains, “Why did you move to Wenatchee?”

2 mins

Okandogs: Rescuing dogs — and now, feeding starving cattle

Tom and Jan Short have a wonderful home in Cashmere, right on the Wenatchee River.

3 mins

Designer has the feel for space

Diana Hoyt, the interior stylist with Deep Water Home & Electronics, designed much of the Carlisle Classic Builders entry in the 2020 virtual Home Tour (see related story).

3 mins

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The Good Life Magazine Description:

The Good Life magazine is a monthly lifestyle print publication primarily circulating in Wenatchee and the Chelan and Douglas counties area of Washington founded upon the idea the world is a big, beautiful place — we like to find people who are stepping off the usual path in one way or another to find adventure in their lives.

One of our guidelines is that we only report on local people — folks from Chelan and Douglas counties. Our idea is this: other media can go all around the world and come back with stories on war, famine, earthquakes, crime and the like.

We go right down the street and find our neighbors who are doing something extraordinary that maybe, might inspire you to take your own adventure. The variety of our stories never ceases to surprise us: People have shared their adventures of going to some of the most inhospitable places on earth — such as north of the Arctic Circle — to the most hospitable — such as floating down the canals in the French countryside.

Most of our stories, though, take part locally, in the most beautiful area of Washington State, as readers and contributors find adventure close to home. We love the “chapter two” stories where people show us how they have rebounded one of life’s bruises to find new joy in living.