Laura Vecsey is a former sports columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Baltimore Sun. She has lived in Seattle since 1994, which does not qualify her as a resident, according to unwritten rules of local citizenship. She lives in Magnolia, studies at the University of Washington and is the Local Content Director in Seattle for Examiner.com.

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June 26, 4:52 PM

by Laura Vecsey, Seattle People Examiner

They banned Martha Stewart in England this week, as if the dowager of decoration was some common criminal trying to gain entry into the UK's iron-tight borders.

Oh, right. Stewart IS a convicted criminal -- a notion that some of her fans here in Seattle still find a little absurd. Martha is, after all, one of us -- sort of. At least she feels like one of us, considering her loving posts in her Martha Up Close & Personal blog.

Maybe it was all those times we used to see Martha Stewart at the Seattle Sonics games that made us feel especially empathetic during her fall from well-heeled grace. That was back in the halcyon days of the dot.com surge, when the Sonics meant something to Seattle and Martha would show up here in the Emerald City to hang with her boyfriend, Charles Simonyi, a Hungarian computer software tycoon who helped to develop Microsoft. She'd sip her plastic cup of wine courtside and we'd all feel so ... so ... in the swirl of the glamor moment.

And now? Sonics are outta here. Microsoft is flat-lining. Bill Gates steps down today from his 30-year perch. The dot.com bubble has bubbled back, but who knows how much longer Seattle can sustain its Teflon coating against the souffle-falling economy? It's all gone south since Martha came to hang with us at the Sonics games.

Prior to Stewart's 2004 criminal conviction in her infamous insider trading scandal, she grew suitably fond of Seattle to prompt her to make stealth visits. Last Thanksgiving, Stewart posted on her blog some fantastic aerial shots of her helicopter tour of the San Juan Islands. (The photo above is of Martha in Roche Harbor.)

Hey, Martha. If Merry Ol' England can't get over a little ill-advised cellphone conversation to your stockbroker, we can. Come back -- and takes us along for a ride next time!

Topics: Seattle , Martha Stewart , San Juans

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