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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
    Combing through this current follicle challenge | Whale’s...
    By Robert Whale • October 11, 2024 7:30 am

    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?!”

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
    Behind the scenes in the quest for fame...
    By Robert Whale • October 4, 2024 6:30 am

    I watched a documentary 15 years ago in which a reporter asked a group of kids what they wanted to…

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
    Consider the influence of those annoying ads |...
    By Robert Whale • September 27, 2024 1:30 am

    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.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
    When your mind wanders into heavy traffic |...
    By Robert Whale • September 20, 2024 1:30 am

    Before I even set out from my chemotherapy and radiation treatment in Puyallup on Monday to the office in Sumner,…

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
    Winning the battle against cancer by a whisker...
    By Robert Whale • September 13, 2024 1:30 am

    It all came to my attention one morning that formerly bewhiskered areas of my face were now bare.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
    Local memories run deeper than the Green River...
    By Robert Whale • September 7, 2024 8:30 am

    Sumner’s a sweet little town, and I am happy to be part of it.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
    For the love of the Auburn Avenue Theater...
    By Robert Whale • August 30, 2024 1:30 am

    The Auburn Avenue Theater building started out its long life in 1926 as a bus depot before its turns as…

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
    One of the most beautiful things I have...
    By Robert Whale • August 23, 2024 1:30 pm

    I am a fool for a great read.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
    With prescription labels, try reading the tiny fine...
    By Robert Whale • August 16, 2024 1:30 am

    It has been one of the chief frustrations of my daily battle with the awful side effects of chemotherapy.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
    We are facing an epidemic of blame shifting...
    By Robert Whale • August 9, 2024 7:30 am

    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.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
    How William Shakespeare introduced me to my wife...
    By Robert Whale • August 2, 2024 7:30 am

    The first words she ever said to me came from a famous passage of wits between Katherine and Petruchio.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
    Once upon a time when the truth still...
    By Robert Whale • July 26, 2024 7:30 am

    We’re beating each other over the heads with “alternate facts.” It’s the tolling of our death knell as a nation.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
    Thoughts on writer’s block and other first word...
    By Robert Whale • July 19, 2024 8:30 am

    “I once heard an anecdote about a writer who’d spent a week in his apartment working on his novel, without…

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
    Ready for another cold apple from life’s vending...
    By Robert Whale • July 12, 2024 7:00 am

    Call it the sweetness of life.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
    Cold War fallout shelter survives in childhood memories...
    By Robert Whale • July 5, 2024 7:00 am

    Dad never finished the bomb shelter.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
    The aggressive in-your-face nature of online advertising |...
    By Robert Whale • June 28, 2024 1:30 am

    It was 3 p.m. on a recent Friday, and there I was, at my computer, desperate to dig up information…

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
    Here’s a theory on the fate of conspiracy...
    By Robert Whale • June 22, 2024 6:30 am

    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.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
    It’s time to laugh instead of cringe at...
    By Robert Whale • June 14, 2024 6:30 am

    As humorist and social critic H.L. Mencken wrote, “A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable.”

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
    What sort of learning really matters when it’s...
    By Robert Whale • June 7, 2024 1:30 am

    It will be about what does not perish when we do.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
    Renewing a call for marking the White River’s...
    By Robert Whale • May 31, 2024 11:30 am

    In my first column for this newspaper three years ago, I wrote about one of my historical fascinations.

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