I was fortunate to grow up in a household where the food wasn’t always good but there was always plenty of it.
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Ted Olinger
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1/31/24
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I have cultivated a new mindset in the past months, and it has carried me through a year of difficult personal decisions.
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Vicki Biggs
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1/31/24
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On the first day of the year, I stood in front of an outdoor fire and discussed the topic of delight.
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Anna Brones
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1/31/24
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Although I do not possess the courage to make formal New Year’s resolutions, I am on the annual lookout for character flaws in myself (and others).
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Carolyn Wiley
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1/31/24
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Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Humanity is being tested, and it’s not looking very good for us.
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April Godwin
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12/27/23
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I think we all believe we work hard. We’ve heard that if we do, we’ll do well in life.
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Mark Michel
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12/27/23
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As a new year breaks and the sun rises on 2024, we are faced with the reality that, once again, an election year is upon us.
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Meredith Browand
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12/27/23
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If you’re still reading this, thank you. Not sure I could write a more off-putting title. I envision a somewhat less-than-engaged response. Here I want to show a little love for math.
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Jack Dunne
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12/27/23
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It was the early 1990s in Azusa, California, where I was in college. It was December, it was finals week, and, needing to blow off stress, we went Christmas caroling.
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Dan Whitmarsh
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11/30/23
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Cement making around the world releases so much carbon dioxide that if it were a country, it would be the third biggest source of CO2 pollution.
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Richard Gelinas
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11/30/23
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Sure, you expect to laugh at lists of crazy Engrish menu mistranslations on social media, “Braised Dork with Bamboo Gunfires,” not to mention episodes of The Three Stooges.
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DAN CLOUSE
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11/30/23
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‘Tis the season — for all those Mariah Carey horror memes.
Truth to tell, I’ve actually never minded the song; it’s fine. The horror comes from having it repeated ad …
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José Alaniz
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11/30/23
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Violence tests us in unexpected ways. It strains our identity when the time comes to defend all those fancy principles we think we hold.
I was already suitably humbled when I heard the …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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11/2/23
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Fellow KPers — get thee to YouTube and watch “The Maple Cutter,” a 2023 documentary by Daniel Hoffman and Lynn M. Thomas.
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José Alaniz
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11/2/23
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A few weeks ago, I flew home to Seattle from Missoula. I was looking forward to getting home, excited that the flight wasn’t more than an hour. I settled into my window seat and watched as the …
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Anna Brones
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11/2/23
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As the countdown clock ticked away the waning days of summer, school and library boards around the country were besieged with demands to limit access to an ever-expanding list of books.
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Carolyn Wiley, KP News
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11/2/23
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I would like to skip the question about whether heaven exists, maybe another time, but let’s think about the idea of heaven. I’m sure some of you have a pretty clear picture, maybe based …
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Jack Dunne
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11/2/23
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I recently attended a high-profile tech conference where artificial intelligence was the talk of the week. After listening to the hype and the promises, and the long-term visions from heavily funded …
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April Godwin
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9/27/23
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On May 10, 2016, then Herron Island ferry captain John Farris posted a photo on the islanders’ group on Facebook with a laconic caption, as was his style, even though the announcement could …
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Joseph Pentheroudakis
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9/27/23
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It was 1979 or ’80. My dad informed me I would accompany him to a business dinner. I put on my three-piece suit, like his, and he drove us in his 1968 Volvo P1800 bone-white coupe with red leather …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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9/27/23
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