In the early afternoon on Feb. 16 I found an article I wrote after Seth Dawson first started coaching the boys swim team at Kentlake High little more than a year ago.
I woke up this morning feeling the weight of the world on my shoulders. I even tried to get an extra hour of z’s, but to no avail.
I realize I really don’t have the weight of the world on my shoulders, just a small portion, and certainly no more than anyone else, and probably much less.
The smoke-filled room of medical marijuana legislation in Olympia will continue to be shrouded in haze.
I am helping 7-year-old Maria with math homework – she struggles with the English instructions and I assume she may not get much help at home because her parents are busy or lack English proficiency.
Tahoma Junior High student Tyler Friesen has figured out at 14 what a lot of us don’t figure out until we’re in our 20s.
Actually, he’s figured out two things: what he loves to do and what he’s good at.
When I left home Tuesday morning the wind was blowing. For most places around the Puget Sound, that is not necessarily a big deal, but in Enumclaw we take notice. The wind really knows how to blow in that town.
OK, I am in the newspaper business last time I checked. That means I am supposed to write stories and try to tell something resembling the truth.
Talking to Rick Haag about the Tahoma Film Academy made me think about my own days in high school and subsequent college education.
Education, schools and school teachers are hot topics everywhere parents or politicians are locked in the same room these days. The recent State Supreme decision on the Constitutional requirement to fully funding schools created quite a furor among political leaders in office and those hoping to get into office.
Every time a storm rolls through like the one we had last week I park my rear-wheel-drive Mustang in the garage.
This year I was fortunate enough to have my mother-in-law’s 2006 all wheel drive Chevy Equinox at my disposal so I was able to get around.
For a while I have desired to write a column about how technological advances, particularly within the Internet, have the potential to affect the role and manner in which a reporter operates.
I have decided my New Year’s resolution this year will be focused on my daughters. For their benefit I am resolving not to be the perfect wife and mother.
About six months ago, Netflix announced it would be raising its rates by as much as 60 percent, something that caused a massive public furor among its 23 million subscribers.
As a reporter and a fiction writer, the transformation of the traditional publishing industry has been fascinating.
Some of us know how to take it easy.
Ron Harmon, who retired from the Kent City Council after two terms, is less visible these days, but he has not exactly put the engine in neutral.
The new year has started and there are a few items I would like to write about in this first column as 2012 engines rev up. None are worthy of a column on its own, so I will just string some notes together about issues I am interested in or would like to figure out.
A new year editorial cartoon from the pen of Frank Shiers, Jr.
The National Transportation Safety Board has taken a tough, but necessary, stand on texting, emailing or chatting while driving a vehicle. The board wants it outlawed.
A funny thing happened when I was discussing with my parents what I wanted for Christmas.
My dad asked me if I wanted a new smartphone.
I shrugged. Being the avid reader I am, my mom then asked if I wanted a Kindle or Nook.
There was a long, awkward silence.
Locally, we have dealt with two cases in the Kent School District, one which eventually ended in a former Kentlake teacher serving an eight month jail sentence for sexual misconduct with a student while a second case alleging misconduct by Kent-Meridian teacher (who lives in Black Diamond) is just at the start of the criminal process.
