My name is Althea Paulson. I live on Bainbridge Island, a community of 23,000 people, and a 35-minute ferry ride from Seattle, Washington.
I co-published the Bainbridge Buzz, a local news website, from 2005 through spring of 2007 and have lived on Bainbridge Island for 15 years. Once upon a time, I was a corporate lawyer in New York and Seattle. But I came to my senses and returned to writing after I moved to Bainbridge with my husband, three sons, and various animals.
I’m passionate about all things Bainbridge, and love writing and wrestling with island issues, from politics to education to the arts to the predator that cleaned out my fish pond. On the side, I play the piano and read madly. My full-time occupation this year is finishing my novel, which I started before the Buzz overtook my life.
A few of the posts here are columns I wrote for the Buzz. The rest will be new shorts and essays about the substance of daily life, on the island and off.
You can email me at bainbridgenotebook@gmail.com.
Althea, I mentioned your article in our Market email newsletter to subscribers. If you want a copy, please contact me.
Linda
Hi Althea!
So nice to have you back blogging after the Buzz. With your dedication and focus, you bring us some solid, intelligent news. Thanks so much, you Island treasure!
- tj
Althea, we have a box of tea bags from Teddy’s mother who died two years ago. You can tell when Teddy’s thinking about her, because he makes a cup of tea with one of those tea bags.
He said to me, “You never know what legacy you’re leaving behind, except for those gifts from the heart.” I said you can’t be sure of their exact form, because the eternal universe has a clever wardrobe of realities.
I said your mother must have loved you an awful bunches. He told me your children will have among them the most incredible legacies. “It’s a cosmic law,” Teddy said.