Opinion

As I reclaimed the laptop from the cat to write this column, a message from Alison Krupnick popped up in the corner of my screen. It read, “If it weren’t for the Ballard Writers Collective, I wouldn’t be about to release this book!”

There…MORE

One cold winter day Dave Stamborsky and I were searching for a likely place to catch a steelhead and I convinced him we should try the Hamma Hamma on the Olympic Peninsula. This is a short and narrow little stream that flows out of the mountains…MORE

(Editor’s Note: When you get to a certain age, you start passing emails among your peers with the central theme, “Things were so much better back then.” I don’t know who wrote the following article. But thinking about my parents, Bernadine and…MORE

By Kyra-lin Hom

The new movie Looper is awesome! It's a science fiction-action film set 2 and 32 years in the future (got to love time travel) that honestly defies summary. The official logline is, “A killer who works for the mob of the…MORE

Writer Fred Moody had been trying to track down Lynette Johnson for months. When he finally found her, he asked exactly one question and then listened to her talk for three hours. Eight years later, he said, “My life has pretty much never been…MORE

From hamburger service to hospitality queen, young Penny Jumonville had a whirlwind adventure in the summer of 1962. Penny was too young for Seafair but just right for the White Center Chamber of Commerce. They selected this counter clerk at Lou'…MORE

I don’t know if there is a way to go back –- a way to return to the simpler life. A time removed from the anger and strife of today’s world.

A day when being together with other folks, family and friends over a steaming cup of coffee and…MORE

By Kyra-lin Hom

All right, enough of this zombie silliness. I get it. The predatory undead aren't for everyone. I mean, we're in serious political times here. This is no time to be joking around – *cough**Jimmy Fallon* *cough*. Excuse me,…MORE

By Corbin Lewars

Several of my clients were struggling with what I call the fundamental step of writing: applying butt to chair. There are so many reasons to not apply your butt to the chair, and in my clients’ cases, all of them were…MORE

The Umpqua Bank that opened on NW Market St last December has been on my “future column” list since I learned they hosted a Salsa dance and a poetry reading. My general interest is always piqued by what seems like unlikely partnerships. I wanted…MORE