Maria Montalvo
Maria A. Montalvo. That’s the name I was born with since it flows better than what my married name could have been (and my husband knows I am pretty fond of him without the name).
My official bio talks about a busy professional life as an Executive Vice President of Corporate Planning and Development for a national company and as the Executive Director of a private charitable Foundation, both that serve military families.
I opened up a local Edmonds’ office more than ten years ago, and these days my office overlooks Main Street.
From that vantage point, I see the world that is Edmonds from my perspective, and as thoughts come into my head, I connect them to our small part of the universe.
This column is a way to connect my outside world to the quiet hamlet we live in.
My greatest joys are my husband, my family, my dear friends, and the exultant, Lulu (border collie/who-knows-what mix).
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Memorable
By Maria Montalvo - Dec 31There are moments in time that are part of our individual memories, our national memory, even an international memory, and many are, unfortunately,...
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Letter to Anyone
By Maria Montalvo - Mar 15Hello. How are you? I hope all is well. Me? Well, I have been better. I’m still all that I was before…in love and happy in my marriage, grateful ...
Boston, New York…Edmonds
By Maria Montalvo - Nov 11Ruth, Michelle and Maria atop Mt. Rainier "When you part from your friend, you grieve not; for that which you love most in him may be ...
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X-tra Large Generation Gaps
By Maria Mantalvo - May 13The New York Times recently said my generation was going through a mid-life crisis. Generation X was the first generation to go by a one-lette...
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To represent is human, to serve is more human?
By Maria Montalvo - Jun 21It has been said that Jimmy Carter is a better man than he was a president. Carter presided over the United States during the last years of the ...
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Bird Watching 101
By Maria Montalvo - May 20Juncos, Warblers, Cowbirds…When I was a little girl, my dad and I used to watch the birds together. He would pick me up and sit me on the kitchen ...
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A New Beginning?
By Maria Montalvo - Aug 14In 1929, physicists and astronomers took a few observations and a handful of Einstein’s theories and proved that the universe was expanding. In ...
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The pursuit of sadness…
By Maria Montalvo - Jan 19I watched a politician on TV yesterday giving yet another speech about the Declaration of Independence. He said we were all entitled to our ...
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The place where you live… Where you belong?
By Maria Montalvo - Aug 09Puerto Rico is marketed as a jewel of the Caribbean, some of its historic and natural treasures protected through the efforts of a few well-known ...
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The Blahs of February
By Maria Montalvo - Mar 04“Beware the ides of March.” Clearly that soothsayer didn’t spend a February in Washington… According to the National Weather Bureau, this ...
The perfect X
By Maria Montalvo - Jun 04A few weeks ago, two clouds above Edmonds criss-crossed to create a perfect “X”. It did not seem like a plausible contrail pattern from a Boeing ...
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Spring of Love and Youth?
By Maria Montalvo - May 18This past Saturday was glorious in Edmonds, 61 degrees and partly sunny through hazy skies, with a touch of a breeze from the south. It was the ...
