“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.
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.
I have always been fascinated by the titles we Americans have bestowed on our towns and cities over time.
“Carbon footprint” was the crowning achievement of an advertising campaign.
Tony – not his real name – was a gifted writer.
I was listening to the radio on the way in to work the other day when I caught a discussion…
Before we put the veterans back on the shelf until the next observance, I think it’s worthwhile to consider a few of the things they have done for us that we may have forgotten.
One of the largest Veterans Day parades west of the Mississippi returns to Auburn on Saturday, Nov. 11.
“We did not expect you to make it,” doc says.
It is plain to me in looking at dogs small and large that a decent share of them are exemplars of love on Earth, innocents who love unconditionally and love their chow.
Among the most useful things I studied in college were debate, and deceptive messaging in advertising.
I have been thinking lately about all the people who by some dark mechanism have managed to willfully blind themselves…
It is 12:35 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 3.
In the 1968 film “Oliver!,” the murderous Bill Sykes’ doomed lover, Nancy, leads pub revelers in a round of “Oom…
As I have written before in this column, I am a word person.
We find them everywhere we turn.
For much of the flight from the Renton Airport over South King County and back early Friday afternoon, Jan. 27,…
My brother, Jack, and I were jabbering on Christmas Eve about all the things we’ve done in our lives that…
One of the important lessons the dawning of each new year has taught me is the futility of making New…
Looking today at the North Auburn home in which I grew up fills me with wonder.
Many sweeping generalizations stalk our land today, making no distinctions between diverse people and institutions, but lumping them into one…