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.
So many signs pointed to a broken culture in the Auburn Police Department, and yet it does not appear that any meaningful corrective action was taken, the authors say.
I’ve written a lot about English here, so I can only hope I haven’t made a butt of myself rattling…
The hurricane-force winds fueling fast-moving Southern California wildfires have exasperated firefighters in western states for over a century. They quickly…
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…
