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Stewardship

Not much of a churchgoer, but I have embraced some of the aspirational ideas I’ve heard there. In one church many years ago, I heard a sermon about stewardship that stuck with me. In my very … more

Jack Dunne | 6/1/22

Climate Change Comes Home

On a hot day last August, the Whitmarsh family took a trip to Seattle to visit the Space Needle. Standing in the viewing area, we were shocked to see a large plume of smoke rising to the west. We … more

Natalie Pierson/Olivia Whitmarsh | 6/1/22

Flower Blood Moon

I was a university sophomore in New York City in the fall of 1982. There was a girl in my art history class who stood out as particularly smart, attractive and friendly in the way people are who have … more

Ted Olinger | 6/1/22

The Rona Year

The first “back to normal” school year since the COVID-19 pandemic began is slowly wrapping up. Yearbooks are on sale, the senior Nerf wars are ending, and all the annual … more

Grace Nesbit | 6/1/22

Emissaries

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José Alaniz | 5/27/22

1968

The train pulled into the Hauptbahnhof, Munich’s central station, just before noon. It was Wednesday, Aug. 21, 1968, a balmy day under a deep-blue sky, and I was on the first leg of my slow, … more

Joseph Pentheroudakis | 4/27/22

A Rerun of History

Passing through Check Point Charlie into East Berlin prior to 1990 was like Dorothy waking up back in Kansas in the final scene from the 1939 film “The Wizard of Oz.”West Berlin, like … more

Mark Michele | 4/26/22

Procrastination, Pencils and Plumbago

The procrastinator’s spirit animal is the crow. Back in fourth century Armenia, as the story goes, a wicked crow looked up and wheedled a Roman centurion named Expeditus into putting off … more

Dan Clouse | 4/26/22

Clean Energy Deep in the Earth

Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? But what if there is a way to just ditch the coal and switch over the turbines to hot water from the ground? Quaise Energy, a startup company that … more

Richard Gelinas | 4/26/22

The Time of Trillium

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José Alaniz | 4/25/22

Waiting to Vax

My daughter turned 1 just two days after Gov. Jay Inslee issued the first stay-at-home orders of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. We opened birthday presents with family on Facetime and she had … more

Meredith Browand | 3/31/22

Difficult Spaces

Spring is upon us and summer is fast approaching. The glowing faces of daffodils greet me on these longer days, while our pond is alive with the cacophony of a family of geese who have made a new … more

Dan Whitmarsh | 3/31/22

Restoration to Sanity

I recently had occasion to read step two from a 12-Step program: “Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.” I thought about those words, … more

Vicki Husted Biggs | 3/31/22

An Immodest Proposal

Even before I left Texas, I was pretty much a wild-eyed, tree-hugging, bleeding-heart liberal. Having spent my teaching career in schools that served singularly needy neighborhoods, my liberal bias … more

Carolyn Wiley | 3/31/22

Being Community

I want to thank all the teachers, counselors, various council members and pastors in the Gig Harbor-Key Peninsula area who reached out to me after reading my first column (“Being … more

Rion Tisino | 3/31/22

Ostara

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José Alaniz | 3/31/22

Their Time

An old pal of mine asked me to do him a favor a couple years ago and come talk to a freshman composition class at the university where he was a dean. It would really help him out; his department had … more

Ted Olinger, KP News | 2/28/22

Bedtime Stalling

Every night Violet’s dad reads “Go, Dog. Go!” at bedtime. Over time the story has grown, nearly doubling in length with the addition of words and lines that Violet has come up with … more

Krisa Bruemmer, KP News | 2/28/22

Are the Kids All Right?

This school year has been something different. Back in classrooms, but with masks? And the shock of returning as a junior at Peninsula High School after only one in-person semester freshman year. … more

Grace Nesbit | 2/28/22

Sittin' on Top of the World

As some of you may recall from earlier columns, we migrated north a few years ago and continue to delight in the many ways our new home enriches us. Here I’d like to make another observation. I … more

Jack Dunne | 2/28/22

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