Musings -- On the editor's mind

Since coming to La Conner I have truly learned what being rooted means. Whether Gail Thulen telling me that when his grandson graduates from WSU and comes home he will be the family’s sixth generation farmer or Bobbi Krebs reflecting on her grandmother’s coming around 1903, or hearing Wallaces remember their family’s arrival that same year, clearly Skagit Valley roots run deep. Across the country these are classic American stories.

My American story couldn’t be more different. Yet it is just as classical. I haven’t been in La Conner two months and have not lived 10 years anywhere since childho...