THE SECRET OF making and keeping New Year’s resolutions is to focus on the little things that can improve our lives, help our fellow man… Continue reading
With apologies to Charles Dickens. HUMBUG! I HUFFED and puffed my way through the newspaper lobby, crammed as it was with holiday well-wishers yammering their… Continue reading
BY NOW, I’M pretty sure we’ve all had it up to here with those phony Christmas letters some people keep sending year after year. You… Continue reading
(With apologies to Francis Pharcellus Church, Editor of the New York Sun, Dec. 21, 1897.) I AM 8 years old. My family and I have… Continue reading
WHY CAN’T CHRISTMAS last all year? You’d better be glad that it doesn’t. Christmas can be very dangerous, starting with putting up the Christmas decorations!… Continue reading
THIS IS A story about Thanksgiving in the olden days. It was back in the Depression, the Dirty Thirties. Pa had somehow got some turkey… Continue reading
AND SO, ANOTHER hunting season passes astern. I hope yours went better than mine. It was a shipwreck of failure, blame and excuses. Hunting experts… Continue reading
IT WAS DAYLIGHT on the river. The shadowy forms of overhanging trees appeared like a tunnel in the twilight. There was the sound of water… Continue reading
THERE’S NOTHING QUITE like tent camping in the rain forest during the monsoon season. The rain falls like it’s being sprayed from a hose. The… Continue reading
THERE’S NOTHING LIKE a hard day’s writing to make me glad I’m not one of the country’s leading Bigfoot researchers. I won’t bore you, dear… Continue reading
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, (NOAA) issued its 2024-25 U.S. Winter Outlook. It was not a… Continue reading
AUTUMN IS A time of plenty on the Olympic Peninsula. The salmon are running. The game is fattened and the berries are ripe. This is… Continue reading
IT WAS DAYLIGHT at the homestead, but I was more than a little late for breakfast. I probably missed it by 50 years or so.… Continue reading
MUCH IS AT stake in the upcoming elections. In Clallam County, which is now our nation’s sole bellwether county for the presidential race, your vote… Continue reading
IT MIGHT HAVE been the American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson who was credited with saying, “build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a… Continue reading
SEPTEMBER IS NATIONAL Disaster Preparedness Month. It’s time to raise awareness about the importance of preparing for disasters and emergencies. This year’s theme for disaster… Continue reading
1890 WAS A good time to be on the Olympic Peninsula. That was before the coming of the railroads and the industrial age that slaughtered… Continue reading
