“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,…
It all came to my attention one morning that formerly bewhiskered areas of my face were now bare.
Sumner’s a sweet little town, and I am happy to be part of it.
The Auburn Avenue Theater building started out its long life in 1926 as a bus depot before its turns as…
I am a fool for a great read.
It has been one of the chief frustrations of my daily battle with the awful side effects of chemotherapy.
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.
The first words she ever said to me came from a famous passage of wits between Katherine and Petruchio.
We’re beating each other over the heads with “alternate facts.” It’s the tolling of our death knell as a nation.
