Whale’s Tales
The past is like a foreign country — they do things differently there. Oddly enough, I’ve been thinking about those words lately in light of… Continue reading
Whale’s Tales
It is a July day in 1969, and I am with my family at Lake Surprise. I have just finished first grade in Mrs. Foster’s… Continue reading
To say that anything is possible is to condition the sinister, pitfall corollary that nothing is ridiculous. So you told me, dad. All I can… Continue reading
Whale’s Tales
Those who know me know me know I’m a bit of a stickler about language. Not so much about the grammar, although of course that… Continue reading
Whale’s Tales
As one small part of the often derided “legacy media,” I am aware that what I am about to say won’t find sympathy with many… Continue reading
Whale’s Tales
I was born late — exactly three weeks — despite my mother’s earnest efforts to speed the process along with various over-the-counter elixirs. I don’t… Continue reading
Whale’s Tales
When I was growing up in the 1970s, like many others I enjoyed “The Waltons,” Earl Hamner Jr.’s televised account of his childhood in the… Continue reading
Whale’s Tales
From March 2020 until recently, it seemed to me that COVID-19 always hit someone far off, the man who’d been incautious, the woman who screamed… Continue reading
Firefighters had to rescue two residents from the roof of an apartment building in downtown Auburn that burned late Friday night and into early Saturday… Continue reading
As of 8:14 a.m. July 13, an earlier ramp blocking incident on SR 520 Westbound at 108th Avenue Northeast in Bellevue has now been cleared… Continue reading
TRAFFIC ALERT
As of Monday evening June 28 and continuing into Tuesday morning and afternoon, June 29, the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) and King County… Continue reading
TRAFFIC ALERT
As of Monday morning, June 28, Washington State Department of Transportation reported the following road obstructions: 5:17 a.m.: A collision blocking the ramp of Highway… Continue reading
“It’s what nature meant us to do. We just do it faster.”
“Decision to close the National Archives in Seattle has far-reaching impacts across the Northwest.”
One night a year, volunteers spread out across Seattle and King County to count the homeless. And on the cold, rainy night of Jan. 24,… Continue reading
Politics
‘Biggest shock of my adult life has been the Republican Party’s complete capitulation to Donald Trump.’
