America needs a statesperson of the stature, capability, and perspective of Daniel J. Evans as our next president.
Right now, we want to speak to the survivors in our community.
Call it the sweetness of life.
Dad never finished the bomb shelter.
It was 3 p.m. on a recent Friday, and there I was, at my computer, desperate to dig up information…
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.
As humorist and social critic H.L. Mencken wrote, “A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable.”
It will be about what does not perish when we do.
Life without hope draws nectar in a sieve, hope without an object cannot live.
On Memorial Day, we traditionally honor Americans in our military who gave their lives in battle for our country. It…
I’ve heard people say that human beings are the only creatures that know they will die.
As the poet Theodore Roethke once wrote: “In a dark time the eye begins to see…”
“Learn a new language and get a new soul.”
I can’t shake the conviction that a sense of perpetual aggrievement is one of the key components of the engine driving our national estrangement.
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I was curious. I had to know what was true. So I set out to educate myself.
Perhaps my brain injected a bit of humor to cover the shock. But I felt the gut punch.
State lawmakers return Jan. 8 to Olympia.
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I have always been fascinated by the titles we Americans have bestowed on our towns and cities over time.
