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José Alaniz
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5/31/23
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I always wanted to be in high school. The Disney Channel glorified high school life and I couldn’t wait until that was me. The life of a high schooler is a roller coaster ride, there are …
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Grace Nesbit
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5/31/23
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These are momentous days in our household. This spring four of us are graduating — from grad school, from college, and the two youngest from Peninsula High School. I have mixed feelings about …
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Dan Whitmarsh
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5/31/23
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As I write this I have not put food in my body for over 48 hours.
Over the last three months, I have been intermittently fasting — going up to three days with no food — and I feel …
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José Alaniz
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5/31/23
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We pay about 6 cents per kilowatt-hour of electricity in Washington state, much less than the national median of 15 cents per kilowatt-hour. Here I’m just comparing the electricity costs, not the …
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Richard Gelinas
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5/31/23
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Riddle me this: What do iceboxes, typewriters and videotapes have in common?
Outdated technology, right? …
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Dan Clouse
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5/31/23
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Harlan Howard gets credit for this summary of country western music, but its simple wisdom has been validated by many over the years, from Johnny Cash to Van Morrison. Harlan knew what he …
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Jack Dunne
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4/27/23
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One thing you learn when you bike in the Northwest is that you won’t get much riding done if you don’t go out when it’s cold, dark and wet. You just kit up in cold and wet weather gear, get …
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Joseph Pentheroudakis
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4/27/23
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Earlier this year my husband and I celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary at a resort in Fiji. Situated on an island in the Beqa Lagoon south of the Fijian mainland, the resort was an absolute …
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Meredith Browand
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4/27/23
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“Violet was out last week too, right?” the attendance secretary asks when I call Monday morning to report that my daughter is sick. Again. Last week it was, “Violet’s been …
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Krisa Bruemmer
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4/27/23
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As I sat on the kitchen floor blinking back tears, I realized that the thing I had been working towards for the last three months wasn’t going to happen. I was sweaty, I was in pain and I felt …
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Arissan Nicole
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4/27/23
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Given the opportunity, wouldn’t we all choose to be shiny, happy people? Advertisers know the vast majority do.
But when I watch sports on television with my young daughter, uncomfortable …
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Mark Michel
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3/29/23
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I have been living on the Key Peninsula since Oct. 25, 2007. I moved here to increase the diversity and to be as close as I can to the water. I also thought that because I made it out of the trap …
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Rion Tisino
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3/29/23
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Election season is creeping up on us and, unsurprisingly, tribal power games are becoming more inflammatory. Hair-on-fire-reporting fills the airwaves, and my hair is getting singed.
For …
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Carolyn Wiley
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3/29/23
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All over the world and throughout all time, I’m betting, society has been creating a certain profile or image of who the perfect people are. No matter who you are or where you come from, everybody …
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Grace Nesbit
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3/29/23
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Those Easter mornings, my mother made hot cross buns. I remember them well, their butter-basted crowns glistening in the light with cross-shaped frosting dripping down the sides. I can smell their …
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Dan Whitmarsh
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3/29/23
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In 1990 I was a 26-year-old dilettante who thought I’d accumulated enough savings and contacts and clout working at a big time publisher in New York City to believe I could plunge blind-folded …
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Ted Olinger
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3/1/23
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I am not quite old enough to remember the assassination of Lincoln, but I do remember hearing Hank Snow’s 1962 hit “I’ve Been Everywhere, Man” on AM radio.
If you are a youngster, that’s …
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Dan Clouse
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3/1/23
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