Lucy Tobias

Welcome to Pike Place Market, Seattle, where the word “merge” takes on whole new levels. The Market, and the surrounding area, is like a mini-United Nations, a common ground where cultures congregate and do commerce. Homeless people and low-income families…

Wayne Geer died alone. A U. S. Army veteran who served a tour of duty in Korea, Geer had no fixed address. He was living in a Belleview, Florida hotel room and was found by the motel owner lying in…

The Ichnetucknee River had a mind of its own, determined, focused, flowing at a fast clip, mysteriously drawn towards the Santa Fe River that then flows into the Gulf of Mexico. I don’t resist. Putting the paddle down on the…

Everyone is so quiet you can almost hear brush strokes. Inside Linda Blondheim’s small studio, eight artists are squeezed in somehow, easels turned every which way. If we step back to give our mind a rest, we bump into another…

I went to work a few years back at a mid-size newspaper. Like most reporters, I’m a newspaper junkie, reading it every day. Have to, just to keep up. I noticed the editors, not the cop reporter, wrote up any…

Two Canadian geese flew overhead. That was exciting. I stop to take a shot but I’m not fast enough. All I see are their behinds. Lowering the camera, I continue walking down from the high meadow, my running shoes making…

Saturday mornings with Lucy will be on hiatus for two weeks. The next column is due on Friday, May 26 (yes, I know, it is weird, Saturday morning’s column is published on Fridays). As always, your feedback and comments are…

Dear Mom, If I lived nearer to where you are, I’d take this letter to your gravesite. They say that everything people leave at the National Cemetery, letters, mementos, photographs, all get saved. It helps to write, to share emotions.…

Cancer survivors are here for the long haul, living each day and counting. At a Relay for Life last weekend, their names were announced and the time they’ve been cancer free – one month, one year, five years, 20 years.…

Annie is an All-American breed. Dog trainer Letty Towles coined that term. Annie is Golden Retriever/terrier/the rest unknown. Adopted from the Humane Society she lounges in the living room one morning with Suzi, another All-American, a Boxer-Golden Retriever mix. “I…

Dear Mother Earth,Sorry I haven’t written sooner. It is a little nuts around here trying to keep up with everything, but you understand that. I added another title to my job descriptions: worm rescuer. Some days I step out the…

I’d rather eat ten penny nails than go to a victim’s impact panel and listen to a lineup of broken people tell the story of how their life was forever changed by a drunk driver. But a friend of mine…

James has a problem. Well, actually, he’s got lots of problems but at the moment he’s fighting the leash, big time, a dog acting like a bucking bronco, throwing one leg over the lead, rearing up, forcing the trainer to…

If you are driving through Montana in the springtime and see poppies growing by the side of the road – vivid, yellow-orange globes of color looking out of place, like they belong on a California hillside instead of Montana, you…

Millie likes to multi task. While slicing long loaves of French bread, she cradles her cell phone on one shoulder, reassuring a parent. “We have to keep looking for any signs of fever, but the test was fine and she…

When Suzi, my Boxer-Golden Retriever mix, was a puppy, I nicknamed her Solar Cell because she loved to play for a while, then stretch out full length and soak up the sun’s rays in the back yard. One day a…

There are a lot of ways to get into the birdfeeder in my backyard, but I’ve got to tell you that sliding down the roof is not one of them. That didn’t stop Junior from trying. Perched on the top…

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It doesn’t get any better than this. After 23 years as a writer/photographer with the New York Times Regional Group, I’m on the back porch, freelancing. This is very new, very fresh, like a honeymoon. My new business card simply…

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