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Two remarkable events in the 18th century that were a consequence of the viral disease smallpox have lessons for us today: How a simple method for vaccination was reduced to practice and presented to …
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Richard Gelinas
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10/28/21
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Colleen was sitting on the steps in front of her brick house when my dad parked our green Dodge, and I rushed to see her. Her house was the biggest and nicest one in Lincoln, Iowa, very grand when …
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Phyllis Henry
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10/28/21
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Living on the Key Peninsula, growing older and more reflective, I have been reminded how life seems to be a circle — we often end up right where we started. For me, that’s small-town …
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Bob Perry
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10/28/21
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The pile of books at my bedside grew taller each week. A new book might appear almost daily, increasing the height of the pile by a couple of inches. My lifelong love of reading is not restrained by …
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Vicki Husted Biggs
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10/28/21
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Some thoughts as an offering to my new neighbors: Yes, I’m another transplant with something to say about our glorious home on the Puget Sound. I offer them in the conviction that sometimes …
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Jack Dunne
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9/29/21
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Sometime in 1988, I think, I was an editorial assistant at G.P. Putnam’s Sons in midtown Manhattan when I happened to come out of the elevator to find Kurt Vonnegut trying to get past the …
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Ted Olinger
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9/29/21
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Something unexpected happened this summer: I stopped refilling my bird feeders.
I’ve been keeping my backyard feeders stocked for years, only missing a day or two now and then. Nothing but …
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Joseph Pentheroudakis
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9/29/21
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“Look here,” my wife said, pulling back the thick vines growing in our backyard garden. I saw a flash of red deep in the shadows. Reaching in, I gave a gentle tug and pulled out our first …
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Dan Whitmarsh
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9/29/21
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Back in March of 2020, I wrote a column here called “Moving to Reduce Medical Expenses” where I stated that my wife and I were going to be moving to Portugal, the cost of medical bills …
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Rob Vajko
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9/29/21
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The night sky above the Key Peninsula isn’t always clear.
We enjoy about 140 nights a year that are partly cloudy or better. The rest remind us that the KP isn’t West Texas and you …
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Dan Clouse
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9/1/21
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Recently I rediscovered a forgotten pleasure.
I have come to believe that waiting is one of life’s under appreciated treasures. Unfortunately, societal norms have created the impression that …
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Carolyn Wiley
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9/1/21
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We moved to the Key Peninsula from Seattle in 2019. We had and continue to have such vivid impressions of this place — so many stories, discoveries, wilderness encounters, new family members …
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José Alaniz
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9/1/21
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Before I was a mom, back when I used to see social media as fun rather than torture, I would roll my eyes at those captions accompanying photos of kids headed off to their first day of school. …
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Krisa Bruemmer
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9/1/21
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Sometimes I feel like that is how I live my life; just muddling through until I finally get somewhere. Some people seem to have a clear objective and a straightforward path that they do not veer from …
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Vicki Husted Biggs
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8/28/21
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You have probably noticed it is getting hotter, as if the weather is out of balance. Earth’s energy flow is always in balance, but the planet-wide thermostat is now set to keep more heat. The …
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Richard Gelinas
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8/28/21
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I have been researching and writing about the history of our area for a few years now. The lives and adventures, the successes and low points of the people who managed to find their way to this …
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Joseph Pentheroudakis
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8/28/21
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Promises are not written in stone, or even wet cement. They are soft and squishy and easily manipulated into shapes that only slightly resemble the original. When I Googled “promise,” the …
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Phyllis Henry
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8/28/21
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I first want to congratulate this year’s graduating seniors. The end of your time in high school was unlike others, and this probably wasn’t how you expected to experience these rites of …
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Derek Young
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6/30/21
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