Janell Shah
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- Aug 16, 2026
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- Jul 4, 2026
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Wandering Central Washington: Nearly a century of Squeezing Inn (opens the original)
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It feels like just yesterday, but more than a few years ago I was working out in Creston, Washington â a town of about 200 residents that most people donât even know exists. I was working on a wildlife refuge, and one hot and blistering day, one of my coworkers heard me mention Zillah and stopped in his tracks. âOh, the best prime rib Iâve ever had was in Zillah!â he exclaimed, recounting how in the mid-1990s he and his friends would drive three hours each way just for the prime rib. H
Wandering Central Washington: 'It's just a snake' (opens the original)
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People are always so apologetic about being afraid of snakes, as if it's some personal failing to feel uneasy around a creature that has been sending shivers down human spines for thousands of generations. Whether it's a snake curled up in a terrarium at a pet shop, a harmless garden visitor or a sleepy snake living out their bougie pet-life in the resident snake-person's home, that instinctive pause, the quickened heartbeat, the urge to step back and the "No thank you, I'll admire it from here"
Wandering Central Washington: Fart walk or evening constitutional? Either way, let's promenade. (opens the original)
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I never imagined the word "fart" would make its way into a column I wrote, but adulthood has a funny way of humbling us. When I first heard the phrase "fart walk," I assumed it was either a joke or some new wellness trend that would disappear as quickly as it arrived. The internet loves taking perfectly ordinary things, giving them ridiculous names and pretending they've just been discovered; this is the case with the fart walk. Itâs literally just a walk after dinner. That's it. Thereâs no
Wandering Central Washington: The rise, fall and resurrection of the porch goose (opens the original)
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I never knew how exciting a plastic goose could be. Not a real, feathered, squawking goose, but a plastic, hollow, frozen-in-time replica of the real thing. Somehow, much like the day I realized I was genuinely excited about logging bird sightings in the Merlin Bird ID app, I recently found myself developing a new obsession: the quirky porch goose. You might be wondering what in tarnation a porch goose is. The only way I can describe it is as a midcentury source of wonderment and whimsy. A cemen
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