Years ago, the late journalist Harry Reasoner said this on a CBS historical documentary: “The past is like a foreign…
When I was a kid, a dude two or three years older and bigger than I was might as well…
I have many treasured memories from my four years at the University of Washington, and to this day, they bring…
I have been thinking a lot about an alarming trend in this nation that appears to elevate ignorance.
Watching the 8mm Whale family films my dad shot when we were kids on the old Kodak takes me back…
Why, oh why, do parents do this to the children they profess to love?
I watched a documentary 15 years ago in which a reporter asked a group of kids what they wanted to…
Before I even set out from my chemotherapy and radiation treatment in Puyallup on Monday to the office in Sumner,…
It all came to my attention one morning that formerly bewhiskered areas of my face were now bare.
I am a fool for a great read.
It has been one of the chief frustrations of my daily battle with the awful side effects of chemotherapy.
Now I’m starting to do all the healthful things I should have been doing all along. It won’t happen in a day, but I am on the road.
We’re beating each other over the heads with “alternate facts.” It’s the tolling of our death knell as a nation.
I once heard an anecdote about a writer who’d spent a week in his apartment working on his novel, without…
Call it the sweetness of life.
Dad never finished the bomb shelter.
If you try to reason with people like that, that the conspiracy they are going on about isn’t real, you become part of the conspiracy and are trying to hoodwink them.
Day after day, you and I watch politicians stand before the cameras, lie shamelessly and get away with it —…
It will be about what does not perish when we do.
Life without hope draws nectar in a sieve, hope without an object cannot live.
U.S. Air Force veteran and Auburn resident reflects on her service.
I had contrived to reach 62 years of age without the big event.
Ah, the Golden Rule.
