So many of my father’s advices, as he actually said them, I did not take.
These should not be partisan issues, but that’s what they’ve become.
For most of my life, that’s how I felt about myself.
It stuns me how often we are guilty of doing the very thing we complain about and despise in others when they do it, but excuse it in ourselves.
The authors of “Un novo guia conversação em portuguez e inglez” (“A new guide for conversation in Portugese and English”) meant it to be a serious work.
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…
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
After years of odious political behavior, it is time for elected officials to focus on governing our nation with civility…
I have been thinking a lot about an alarming trend in this nation that appears to elevate ignorance.
“You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when he starts hating the same people you do.”
Watching the 8mm Whale family films my dad shot when we were kids on the old Kodak takes me back…
As the late comedian and famed cynic George Carlin once said in another context: “People would have to be asleep to believe it.”
Why, oh why, do parents do this to the children they profess to love?
When Reporter editor Andy Hobbs and I first discussed this column three years ago, we talked about making it an…
I feared the day when passersby on the streets would start in with, “Hey, get a look at Uncle Fester there!” or “What’s cookin’, Kojak?!”
I watched a documentary 15 years ago in which a reporter asked a group of kids what they wanted to…
Because what we know about this election is that other nations that mean us ill — for example, Russia, China and Iran — are working overtime to influence our election.
Before I even set out from my chemotherapy and radiation treatment in Puyallup on Monday to the office in Sumner,…