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PAT NEAL: Don’t get suckered in by sunshine
IT WAS DAYLIGHT on the river.
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POINT OF VIEW: A challenging voice among voices
I HAVE TAKEN an internal Hippocratic oath of choir participation: At first, do no harm.
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Stretching a hand from Forks to India
SOME PEOPLE TEACH and find ways to learn no matter where they go, even if it’s the eastern…
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FROM A WRITER’S NOTEBOOK: Serenity in accepting things as they are
AT FIRST, IT just felt like a crazy new year.
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PAT NEAL: Steelhead fishing’s last bastion gasping
I KNEW IT was the end when a low-holing, fly-flogging fishing guide floated past on the river and…
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PAT NEAL: Leave your garbage-bag rain gear at home
THE RECENT MARTIN Luther King Jr. holiday is a three-day weekend that traditionally marks the peak of the…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Community celebrates drugstore owner
“STAN THE MAN.” So read the words in the center of a photographic display on a table at…
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FROM A WRITER’S NOTEBOOK: Dancing magic in New Zealand
I’M NOT UNLIKE many professional artists.
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PAT NEAL: For deep snow, tread back in history
THE HISTORY OF the Earth goes back billions of years.
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PAT NEAL: Lions and tigers and log cabins, oh my!
IT WAS A gratifying end to the old year and a hopeful beginning to the new to read…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: World of winter break’s a stage
IF I DON’T time it right, I’ll never get into my own bathroom.
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PAT NEAL: An Olympic Peninsula pioneer’s Christmas
SOMETIMES, WHEN FEELING overwhelmed by the stress of the modern holiday season, I think of a story that…
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PAT NEAL: Harkening back to the Christmas letter
THIS IS A special time of year when the joy and warmth of the holiday season can drive…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Holiday displays light up West End
THE SUN HAS set, darkness has overcome the road.
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PAT NEAL: Defeating Japan in World War II a family fight
“DEC. 7, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy …”
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FROM A WRITER’S NOTEBOOK: Celebrating the season post-election
THIS IS HOW the season finds me: determined, ear-to-ear, not to let November disappointment crush my December spirit.
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Finding light in the gray of La Push
THE WAVES WERE stacked, one upon the other, like fans rushing a concert stage.
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