IT WAS A dark and stormy night. The wind roared through the timber like a freight train. I thought it would rip the roof off… Continue reading
POTATOES MUST BE my favorite thing to dig, next to clams, but clam season is closed so I’m digging potatoes. I know what you’re thinking,… Continue reading
THE SECRET SOCIETY of Sequim is in session. Both the Sequim City Council and the Sequim School Board are taking actions of great importance to… Continue reading
I TRIED TWICE to arrange a phone interview with Joy Harjo, the artist, musician and U.S. Poet Laureate. Wonder of wonders, she’ll give a Peninsula… Continue reading
IT WAS GOING to be one of those days. I remember it like it was yesterday, because maybe it was. It all started with a… Continue reading
THAT WAS YET another bad idea in last week’s column. When out of concern for the well-being of our fellow sportsmen and women who pursue… Continue reading
TODAY IS EPIPHANY, aka Three Kings Day. On the Christian calendar, Jan. 6 is when the Magi discovered the baby Jesus had been born, and… Continue reading
EVEN WITH GLOBAL warming, January is the coldest month. When all the rabid
chickens come home to roost. When the slings and arrows of outrageous… Continue reading
OFTEN, NEW YEAR’S resolutions that seem like a good idea on New Year’s Eve can seem like a bad idea in the harsh light of… Continue reading
How sad to see the Dec. 14 letter about no unity, ever, not gonna happen attitude. Does the writer mean, by “all Democrats,” the 80… Continue reading
IT WAS DAYLIGHT in the swamp on the shortest day of the year. Christmas was coming and I wanted to get a goose for Christmas… Continue reading
EVER PLAY THE game of Telephone? I did when I was younger. A group of people would sit side-by-side in a circle and one person… Continue reading
TWO YEARS AGO this week, I had a few surprises. First, I found out my trip to Mexico coincided with the Feast of Our Lady… Continue reading
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news as the Washington Fish and Game Commission passed more laws restricting steelhead fishing on the waters of… Continue reading
2020 HAS BEEN an interesting year. I can’t think of anything I would want more right now than to be with friends and family over… Continue reading
IT’S BEEN ANOTHER tough week in the news, as we wait for the state to decide if they’ll cancel steelhead season. This would be devastating… Continue reading
I READ WITH some interest the article by the Associated Press in the Dec. 2 Peninsula Daily News on police reform in Washington state. Very… Continue reading
HAVING SPENT NIGHTS and days in hospitals with my family members, I figured I knew how things work in there. I also believed complaints get… Continue reading
CONGRATULATIONS, YOU SURVIVED the latest COVID-holiday, Thanksgiving. Where we gathered together to celebrate the fact that we didn’t burn the house down frying the turkey,… Continue reading
