Opinion

The week before Seattle Schools’ winter break was a heartbreaking time all over the country and very difficult for every grade school teacher who could imagine those classrooms so clearly. It was also the week Mrs. Niemeyer, 2nd Grade teacher at…MORE

In the ‘50s urban legend had it that a deep, dark hole existed at the bottom of Hicks Lake that drained out to Puget Sound to the west. When someone drowned and the authorities could not find the body, we just assumed it got sucked down that hole…MORE

By Kyra-lin Hom

I've been out of undergraduate college for about a year and a half now. I've had my time of identity crisis and readjustment – not to say that I'm over that hump just yet... But for a number of friends of mine who graduated…MORE

By Rev. Judith Laxer

The frost is so white that at first I think it is snow. The infant sun cannot make its way high enough to clear my wall of laurel in the back yard and unable to melt it, the morning remains cold and still and quiet. My…MORE

When I was 11 my big brother Russell, who was thirteen, gave me two marbles for Christmas. One was bright red and the other was bright blue. I know it was a sacrifice for him as he had won them from some rookie and knew I wanted them bad.

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By Kyra-lin Hom

Happy New Year, everyone! Happy 2013 to be exact. Congratulations, you, along with about seven billion other people, have survived the end of the world. Let's take a look at how.

First, a quick refresher. Around 2-3…MORE

A tradition among some. Totally arbitrary to most. We’ll get on with covering 2013 but first, here are my Top 10 Stories of 2012:

1. North Highline voters overwhelmingly reject annexation to BurienBurien City Manager Mike Martin promised…MORE

By Marjorie Young

Since earliest childhood, there have been numerous episodes when an inexplicable ‘something’ altered my path. Some of these incidents proved life-altering…while others were less weighty. But I have learned, over a…MORE

About two weeks after the overall sense of glory and pride in book sales, community connections and sheer attendance at the Ballard Writer’s Collective: The Big Event I finally started to come back into my body. The raffled gift baskets had been…MORE

As a nation, we were dealt a withering emotional blow with the deaths of many school children in Connecticut Dec. 15. In the days since, as the reality of this loss to the greater community has washed over us, we have been tentatively trying to…MORE