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I came to Seattle in the spring of 1991 when I was 27 and somehow landed a part-time job tutoring teenagers.
There was no good reason for me to be doing that, other than I’d had experience …
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Ted Olinger
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10/29/20
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The first time I swam in the Atlantic Ocean — actually, I never swam in the Atlantic Ocean or any other large body of water.
When I was 6 years old a bunch of relatives on my mother’s …
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Phyllis Henry
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10/29/20
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RAT 1 Hey kid, that popcorn is mine. Drop it.
RAT 2 (Drops popcorn in order to speak.) Whoa, you must be the oldest rat around and I’ve seen a lot of rats in New Jersey.
RAT 1 People come …
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Richard Gelinas
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10/29/20
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I have given up hoarding coffee beans as a coping strategy. It was harmless and somewhat effective, but I have moved on. Learning to bake a good cake from scratch is my new diversion in this time of …
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Vicki Husted Biggs
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10/29/20
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It’s not as though Herron Island is isolated from the rest of the world. After all, our ferry, the 11-car red-and-white M/V Charlie Wells, plies the three-quarters of a mile between the island …
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Joseph Pentheroudakis
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10/29/20
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Here on the West Coast, we’re witnessing the birth of an ominous new season: smoke season.
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Caleb Galbreath, KP News
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10/1/20
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It’s late summer, early fall. Temperatures went from the near-unthinkable 100-degree mark for a few weeks down to the 50s in the evening. It feels like a blast furnace when you walk out into …
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Joseph Pentheroudakis, KP News
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10/1/20
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Nearly 150,000 people die each day around the world. On Wednesday Aug. 19, 2020 one of them was Hudson.
He was 6 years old and lived across the street from us. My wife and I have known him almost …
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Rob Vajko
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10/1/20
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My daughter talked to a spider for 30 minutes at breakfast this morning.
“I gave Spidey a sip of my chocolate milk!” Violet said, her grin spreading across the room like a …
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Krisa Bruemmer, KP News
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10/1/20
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Just outside my office sits the Lakebay cemetery, a peaceful little plot of land tucked away behind a thick hedge and madrona trees. Bordered by the Lakebay Church, on a hill that backs into Mayo …
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Dan Whitmarsh
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10/1/20
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Mindfulness can boost the quality of our lives in numerous ways.
The question is, what is mindfulness? What does it do to spark “just being” in ourselves and our …
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Anne Nesbit
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8/27/20
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My 4-year-old and I were talking about running and I was telling her about different sports she can try if she wants to one day, like track, swim team, crew team, volleyball, tennis, softball, …
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Phyllis Henry
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8/27/20
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My 4-year-old and I were talking about running and I was telling her about different sports she can try if she wants to one day, like track, swim team, crew team, volleyball, tennis, softball, …
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Krisa Bruemmer
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8/27/20
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Salmon and cedar were the lifeblood of Native people on Puget Sound. For the S’Hotlemamish of Minter Bay, the coho, chum and cutthroat trout runs were so productive that the villagers were …
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Lynn Larson
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8/27/20
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In the 1880 census Charles Pack, the first settler on Herron Island, was recorded as living on Ketron Island. Ketron is a small island on the opposite side of the Sound, across from Steilacoom. …
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Joseph Pentheroudakis, KP News
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7/30/20
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When I turned 18, I told my dad I was never going to miss an election. Not a general, primary or special election. I grew up with parents that took their civic responsibilities seriously and I guess …
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Meredith Browand
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7/30/20
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This country is probably more divided today than it has been since the Civil War. Ten minutes on Facebook is enough to make it clear that we just aren’t getting along. Donald Trump’s …
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Rob Vajko
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7/30/20
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Thanks for your congratulations on my success. Sorry about my tardy reply to your letter (KP News, May 2020), but I’ve been so busy lately, what with over 11 million COVID-19 cases and over …
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Richard Gelinas
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7/30/20
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We in the Peninsula School District join the rest of our nation in sad recognition that many children and families are in pain right now, but especially our black children and …
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Dr. Art Jarvis
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6/26/20
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Volunteering for civic organizations on the Key Peninsula is often associated with rearranging furniture, separating the recyclables, and raising enormous amounts of money from the community just to give it back to them in a new and improved format. …
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Ted Ralston
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6/26/20
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