Cartoon by Frank Shiers
Many of us have read books that changed the way we look at the world.
Neurologists tell us that human beings lay down fresh connections in their brains when they learn new things.
Cartoon by Frank Shiers
I have been thinking lately about the word “elite.”
In the 1968 film “Oliver!,” the murderous Bill Sykes’ doomed lover, Nancy, leads pub revelers in a round of “Oom…
Cartoon by Frank Shiers
While none of the responses I received to the Dec. 17 column about Dominion Voting Systems defamation suit against Fox…
If we recall anything of our first years of life, it likely comes to our consciousness only in isolated, bright…
Cartoon by Frank Shiers: “On March 24, the state Supreme Court ruled that the capital gains tax was constitutional. They…
In the race to “electrify everything,” there are glitches that may derail the plan over the next 20 years. One…
As I have written before in this column, I am a word person.
I have been reading online comments arguing that the revelations occasioned by Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation suit against…
By Hayley Richbart, asylum case manager, Jewish Family Services in Kent
Life offers us no better mirror to the good and the bad in ourselves than marriage.
We find them everywhere we turn.
While the coronavirus clobbered many businesses, pharmacies were not among them. In fact, since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared…
It was a lazy Sunday afternoon at a fast food restaurant in Kirkland when a stranger’s mental meltdown surfaced without…
We all have moments in our lives that pink us up with embarrassment.
I grew up in a rather small house in the northeast Auburn of the 1960s and ‘70s.