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The season of resilience and spirited hope has returned.
Blankets of green moss adorn the trunks of maples, with big leaves unfurled. Early blossoming fruit trees beckon mason bees to wake before …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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3/31/22
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Just when we thought things were beginning to look up yet another “something unexpected” happened. This time it’s the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Did the whole world emerge from Covid …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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2/28/22
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Some of the best advice I ever got in life came from an old boatman: “The most dangerous thing you can do out here is disrespect the river.”
The year was 1990. We were rafting …
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Lisa Bryan, KP News
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1/27/22
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Thanksgiving was a day of talking a little too loudly, gesturing a little too broadly and experiencing all the good feelings of true belonging that we’ve missed over the past two years. It …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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12/2/21
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My husband's cardiac symptoms took us to the ER. After a now-familiar temperature scan and questions about symptoms and recent travel, we find a seat in a long hallway lined with patients on benches, …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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10/28/21
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The banner stretched over Key Center announcing the annual scarecrow contest, along with a fresh crop of scarecrows lining the road, brought a big smile to my face. For an instant I wanted to close …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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9/29/21
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A few friends and I go swimming early in the morning in Von Geldern Cove. We’d done it a dozen times already this summer, I was getting acclimated to it and kind of proud of us for continuing a …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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9/1/21
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“I wouldn’t think a nonprofit newspaper could print something like this.”
It is a brand-new day when an advertisement appearing in the Key Peninsula News draws so much attention …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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8/28/21
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What began March 25, 2020 was unlike anything we have experienced in this country in living memory. The coronavirus pandemic restrictions that went into effect with the first statewide “stay …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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6/30/21
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It’s daylight and the towhees are here again. For the last six weeks the pair has shown up every morning outside our bedroom window to perch on the deck railing and sing for breakfast. Mr. and Mrs. make a most handsome couple, but are terrible singers.
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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5/26/21
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I could hear this morning arrive before opening my eyes. A solo American robin performed his clear, full-throated first call that pierced the dark silence in the seconds before sunrise. A song …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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4/28/21
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I spent a number of years as an early morning commuter into the city. Slipping into the stream with all the others in such a regular pattern, I noticed many of the same drivers in the same cars day …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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3/31/21
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A year has passed since the first mention of the novel coronavirus in a KP News staff meeting. The whole world has changed since.
The stress and fatigue from living during the pandemic comes in …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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1/27/21
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Our longtime friends walked the country mile between us to deliver good cheer and connect on Christmas Eve.
Nestled inside the small gift bag they brought was the crown jewel of northwest summers …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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12/30/20
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The 2020 election was a mixed bag for Key Peninsula voters of all persuasions. We all got something but none of us got everything we wanted.
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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12/2/20
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We are headed deeper into the forest with the darkest days ahead. On my walk this chilly fall morning, my breath along with the dog’s meets the cold and hangs suspended mid-air. It won’t be long before the trees shed the rest of their leaves. Untended, growing wild along the roadside, the last deep red apples cling to their branches as if for dear life.
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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10/29/20
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Simply keeping up with the news of rolling disasters has been quite an exercise in 2020. Time feels more distorted than ever in this, the seventh month of the pandemic life.
In September, …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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10/1/20
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Does voting really matter? Key Peninsula voters say yes.
And 2.5 million people in Washington State agree. An impressive 54.44% of registered voters cast ballots in the Aug. 4 primary election …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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8/27/20
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Pierce County is failing to meet the goals for Phase 2 reopening. The desired 14-day average number of COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people should be under 25; that’s the number the state …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor, KP News
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7/30/20
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The coronavirus pandemic put the brakes on customary municipal fireworks shows, but no doubt the skies above the Key Peninsula will light up …
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Lisa Bryan, KP News
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6/26/20
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