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My daughter, Violet, has been waiting for Santa since last January.
It feels like she’s asked, “How much longer until Christmas?” just about every single day.
I was the same …
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Krisa Bruemmer
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12/2/21
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The Christmas season is upon us once again. Even in this second winter of Covid, it is a time for celebration, family, and feasting. Dancing lights twinkle merrily while carolers serenade our streets …
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Dan Whitmarsh
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12/2/21
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Crabs think fish fly. I can hear them, muttering and grumbling, stumbling about on the barnacled rocks along the shores of Puget Sound. The fish too look up jealously at the bottom of my boat as I …
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Jack Dunne
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12/2/21
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I spent a couple of years back in the 1990s working for a small tutoring company in Seattle. The job was to help teenagers academically, but some needed more. We found them better schools, …
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Ted Olinger
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12/2/21
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I have lived in the area over 40 years and walked the beaches and forests of the Key Peninsula. I see firsthand the damage that commercial geoduck harvesting does to the beach. I was at the Haley …
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12/2/21
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I take no pleasure in pointing out the lack of leadership exhibited by the board in handling Chief Morrow’s decision…
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12/2/21
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I live on the Key Peninsula and something that concerns me is the lack of color or any reflective material on the knapsacks and coats of little kids. We spend hundreds of dollars to make sure our …
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10/28/21
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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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Two remarkable events in the 18th century that were a consequence of the viral disease smallpox have lessons for us today: How a simple method for vaccination was reduced to practice and presented to …
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Richard Gelinas
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10/28/21
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Colleen was sitting on the steps in front of her brick house when my dad parked our green Dodge, and I rushed to see her. Her house was the biggest and nicest one in Lincoln, Iowa, very grand when …
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Phyllis Henry
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10/28/21
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Living on the Key Peninsula, growing older and more reflective, I have been reminded how life seems to be a circle — we often end up right where we started. For me, that’s small-town …
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Bob Perry
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10/28/21
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The pile of books at my bedside grew taller each week. A new book might appear almost daily, increasing the height of the pile by a couple of inches. My lifelong love of reading is not restrained by …
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Vicki Husted Biggs
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10/28/21
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I support Juanita Beard for election to the Peninsula School Board Nov. 2. Her experience as a mental health professional and a parent with children in our schools makes her very qualified for the …
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10/28/21
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As I count down my days as a school board director for the Peninsula School District, I reflect on the six years I served our students and community. I am proud to know in my heart that every …
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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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Some thoughts as an offering to my new neighbors: Yes, I’m another transplant with something to say about our glorious home on the Puget Sound. I offer them in the conviction that sometimes …
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Jack Dunne
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9/29/21
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Sometime in 1988, I think, I was an editorial assistant at G.P. Putnam’s Sons in midtown Manhattan when I happened to come out of the elevator to find Kurt Vonnegut trying to get past the …
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Ted Olinger
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9/29/21
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