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Consider the influence of those annoying ads | Whale’s Tales
Because what we know about this election is that other nations that mean us ill — for example,…
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When your mind wanders into heavy traffic | Whale’s Tales
Before I even set out from my chemotherapy and radiation treatment in Puyallup on Monday to the office…
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Winning the battle against cancer by a whisker | Whale’s Tales
It all came to my attention one morning that formerly bewhiskered areas of my face were now bare.
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Local memories run deeper than the Green River | Whale’s Tales
Sumner’s a sweet little town, and I am happy to be part of it.
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For the love of the Auburn Avenue Theater | Whale’s Tales
The Auburn Avenue Theater building started out its long life in 1926 as a bus depot before its…
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One of the most beautiful things I have ever read | Whale’s Tales
I am a fool for a great read.
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With prescription labels, try reading the tiny fine print | Whale’s Tales
It has been one of the chief frustrations of my daily battle with the awful side effects of…
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We are facing an epidemic of blame shifting | Whale’s Tales
Now I’m starting to do all the healthful things I should have been doing all along. It won’t…
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How William Shakespeare introduced me to my wife | Whale’s Tales
The first words she ever said to me came from a famous passage of wits between Katherine and…
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Once upon a time when the truth still mattered | Whale’s Tales
We’re beating each other over the heads with “alternate facts.” It’s the tolling of our death knell as…
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Thoughts on writer’s block and other first word problems | Whale’s Tales
“I once heard an anecdote about a writer who’d spent a week in his apartment working on his…
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Ready for another cold apple from life’s vending machine | Whale’s Tales
Call it the sweetness of life.
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Cold War fallout shelter survives in childhood memories | Whale’s Tales
Dad never finished the bomb shelter.
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The aggressive in-your-face nature of online advertising | Whale’s Tales
It was 3 p.m. on a recent Friday, and there I was, at my computer, desperate to dig…
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Here’s a theory on the fate of conspiracy theorists | Whale’s Tales
If you try to reason with people like that, that the conspiracy they are going on about isn’t…
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It’s time to laugh instead of cringe at politicians | Whale’s Tales
As humorist and social critic H.L. Mencken wrote, “A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is…
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What sort of learning really matters when it’s all over? | Whale’s Tales
It will be about what does not perish when we do.
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Renewing a call for marking the White River’s past | Whale’s Tales
In my first column for this newspaper three years ago, I wrote about one of my historical fascinations.
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Thoughts on Memorial Day and the ultimate sacrifice | Brunell
On Memorial Day, we traditionally honor Americans in our military who gave their lives in battle for our…
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Here are some troublesome aspects of chemotherapy | Whale’s Tales
As readers of this column may know, I have terminal cancer.