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Time for us to take another look at Lincoln’s playbook | Whale’s Tales
Hatred of Americans by Americans.
Robert Whale
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Grateful for nurses because they keep us alive | Whale’s Tales
My mother was a registered nurse for nearly 50 years.
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Here’s a more practical use of the National Guard | Whale’s Tales
Here’s how U.S. President Donald Trump defends his push to defund the government-run Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
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Lessons from ‘Black Like Me’ have stayed with me | Whale’s Tales
I first read John Howard Griffin’s “Black Like Me” in Mrs. Dickinson’s seventh-grade English class at Cascade Junior…
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Wacky weather conspiracy theorists strike again | Whale’s Tales
The initial news was grim enough on its own: flash flooding in Central Texas had taken dozens of…
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Here come da judges — and thank God | Whale’s Tales
One more instance of a judge stepping forward at a moment of peril to our national life to…
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The road to my heart is filled with paw prints | Whale’s Tales
We got her from a friend of Ann’s, as one of the two remaining pups from a litter…
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Oh, the things we say, but shouldn’t | Whale’s Tales
Curious, aren’t they, the words people say that shape us, for good and bad for the rest of…
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Let’s dive into a timeless treasure trove of family films | Whale’s Tales
Watching the 8mm Whale family films my dad shot when we were kids on the old Kodak takes…
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Ready for another cold apple from life’s vending machine | Whale’s Tales
Call it the sweetness of life.
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Cold War fallout shelter survives in childhood memories | Whale’s Tales
Dad never finished the bomb shelter.
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The aggressive in-your-face nature of online advertising | Whale’s Tales
It was 3 p.m. on a recent Friday, and there I was, at my computer, desperate to dig…
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Here’s a theory on the fate of conspiracy theorists | Whale’s Tales
If you try to reason with people like that, that the conspiracy they are going on about isn’t…
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It’s time to laugh instead of cringe at politicians | Whale’s Tales
As humorist and social critic H.L. Mencken wrote, “A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is…
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What sort of learning really matters when it’s all over? | Whale’s Tales
It will be about what does not perish when we do.
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Here are some troublesome aspects of chemotherapy | Whale’s Tales
Life without hope draws nectar in a sieve, hope without an object cannot live.
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Project targets major flooding of Green River
The risk posed to the 21-mile corridor could affect more than 27,000 residents and the stability of 28,000…
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Let’s all paws and appreciate the wisdom of dogs | Whale’s Tales
I’ve heard people say that human beings are the only creatures that know they will die.
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If you’re right, and you know it, then read this | Whale’s Tales
As the poet Theodore Roethke once wrote: “In a dark time the eye begins to see…”
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Foreign languages often find a better way to say it | Whale’s Tales
“Learn a new language and get a new soul.”