The Good Life - January 2021

In this issue

Readers share their best days in 2020 • Favorite photos from 2020, with updated comments • Skiing in solitude on a winter day • For this chocolatier, the candy business is dandy • The joys of dog walking • Traveling off grid during the pandemic • Upgrading by downsizing to a tiny house • Fighting muscle loss that comes with age • Setting a better-for-you goal in 2021 • Rethinking some early, early history

It's the BEST Day because I live here & I live now

What makes the best day for me? Any day at all that I wake up in the USA.

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Our stories continue: Filling a heart with joy

MY BEST DAY 2020

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Solitude & skiing

Even in the ‘empty nester’ years, it’s fun to strap on skis or snowshoes for a trek in the snowy wonderland

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Chocolatier follows her heart

A long and winding road to doing what she loves:

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Joy for both dogs and humans in walking

PET TALES

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Taking an off-grid break during the pandemic

As the owners of Ravenous Catering located in Monitor, Valarie Gilmour and Dave Toal are usually very busy people, but in 2020 the lack of weddings and large gatherings gave them time to indulge their wanderlust.

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Upgrading by downsizing

Builder believes tiny homes have large variety of uses

4 mins

Catching up with 4 artists and their creations

It’s always a pleasure talking with artists about their projects, but it’s especially nice to check in after a few years and hear about continuing growth and new directions.

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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.