I usually dawdled through the Muckleshoot Reservation to see the drying gill nets and smell smoking salmon. I didn’t this time because the whole idea seemed screwier than ever. I felt conspicuous as hell in White River. Too much city work does that to you. I broke into it gradually…

hit the eye first, dating her puberty, like the vintage year on a wine bottle, to when Plymouths had tail fins and gas was a whole lot cheaper. I wondered if it was a wig; probably not. Some people change with the fashion; others freeze in an era they last…

Sure, I could tell you stories about Seattle in the seventies. It still had a kind of innocence then you didn’t usually see in cities its size. But that didn’t make it boring. The Nixon Justice Department waged part of its losing battle against the antiwar crowd in Seattle after…

There’s a man who leads a life of danger To everyone he meets he stays a stranger With every move he makes Another chance he takes Odds are he won’t live to see tomorrow Secret Agent Man Secret Agent Man They’ve given you a number and taken away your name…. — Johnny…

A MODEST PROPOSAL FOR THE HOUSE SPEAKER’S VISIT TO TAIWAN China’s egregious threats against a woman old as me, who happens to be third in succession under our Constitution should President and VP go down, has got me thinking. No surprise bullies act this way. It was ever thus. …

Did you see the news about the US indicting an FSB spy for his extensive work organizing disruptive groups here to help sap American will? Reportedly not in custody, probably on the lam. Intercepted email to the organization that made its bones under another set of initials while billeted on…

A story (well, a rant) by a writer I like mentioned LinkedIn, stirring memories of positive interactions. One was reconnecting through the platform with a good-looking wildlife biologist from a long-ago job with the Arizona Game and Fish Department. In my reply I briefly described the memorable 1970s encounter when…

The Skook Saga Continues When I got her on the pay phone outside the Pick ‘N Shovel, and after I filled her in on our son’s new buddy Ralph, my wife was sad to hear about the Petoskey mine being shut down. “I’ll call his wife tomorrow to commiserate. …

I agree with your other commenter here; if Russia is the baby and Putin and Co. are its bathwater, don't discard the baby with the bathwater. Wasn't it Lord Acton who said evil only requires good men do nothing? Too many good men did nothing for too long and allowed…