Among the fascinating relatives of the noun “instinct” is the German term “Fingerspitzengefühl.”
My brothers and sisters tell me they have also been called to account for using “big words.”
One more instance of a judge stepping forward at a moment of peril to our national life to save our butts.
At this moment, many of our distracted countrymen glare at each other over a rigid barrier of hardened suspicion and…
Too often, elected officials overlook the cumulative costs of regulations, taxes, and fees on taxpayers. However, those added costs come…
Ever since it invented the skid steer loader in 1960, the Bobcat Company claims on its website, it has “helped…
Road trips through the heart of Eastern Washington’s one-horse towns are among the most treasured memories of my childhood.
Jury service is the most likely role residents will have in our justice system.
Questioning methods, as I see it, has nothing to do with politics or personal animosities.
I no longer fear death itself, but I could do without dying.
As readers of this column may know by now, I am a word person.
We got her from a friend of Ann’s, as one of the two remaining pups from a litter of nine.
How does the old “Cheers” intro go?
On March 8, I met a reader and sometime critic of this column for lunch.
As readers of this column may know by now, I am a terminal cancer patient.
In last week’s Whale’s Tales, I criticized the present administration in Washington, D.C. — not for its goals, but for…
In a series of rules that Wile E. Coyote’s creator, Chuck Jones, laid down in 1948 to guide Warner Brothers’…
Following the sentencing of former Officer Jeffrey Nelson to 16 years and 8 months in prison, several members of the…
Just last week, walking along Auburn’s East Main Street, I felt the past and its people all around me.
None of us looking at what’s happening in the world sees things exactly as the next guy does.
