As I get around the Highline area and talk with celebrated seniors, I'm seeing a pattern, here. Most of the people that are considered special, by others, are those that gave of themselves - most never stopped. They're almost always volunteers or…MORE
Opinion
New day for Des Moines as downtown building heights examined
Mon, 05/02/11
"Birds flyin' high, you know how I feel, Sun in the sky, you know how I feel, it's a new dawn, it's a new day - and I'm feeling gooood!"
Don't those lyrics just lift your spirit and mood? We can hope for sunshine.
Heaven knows, with…MORE
He offered links and drinks from the Weenie Wagon at Burien's first Farmers Market
Tue, 04/26/11
Nearly thirty years ago we were visiting Portland. We were impressed by their gigantic success with an open-air collection of booths and tables they called the Saturday Market.
It started largely as a venue for local farmers to sell their…MORE
Opinion: Rescue mental-health services with fair sales taxes
Fri, 04/22/11
State Rep. Mary Lou Dickerson
Allowing people to fall back into the abyss of untreated mental illness is cruel, wasteful and sometimes extremely dangerous. But this is the inevitable result of state budget cuts that are shredding our…MORE
Takes a lot of listening to get good things done
Wed, 04/13/11
Of all skills of leadership, listening is the most valuable -- and the one least understood," wrote Heath Herber of the Herber Company.
Two world leaders captured this truth when President Woodrow Wilson said, "The ear of the leader must…MORE
Fumble Bums his claim to fame
Wed, 04/13/11
Why do we favor some golfers over others? Or baseball players? We all root, root, root for the home team; but why golfers, prizefighters or the boys of summer who carry the single burden of winning your love along with the paycheck?
With…MORE
Updated: The story of Burien in three acts
Tue, 04/05/11
We'll skip over Native Americans harvesting clams at Three Tree Point, Mike Kelly trudging up from the Duwamish Valley to find a "sunny dale" or Gottlieb Von Boorian settling by his namesake lake. We'll start our tale from when we got here. By we…MORE
Why Russell pounded Quentin
Tue, 04/05/11
The papers have been full of stories lately about bullies in schools and it might make you think that big guys picking on little guys is something new. It is not, never has been. Little people have been low hanging fruit since Goliath.
I…MORE
Love the Second Time Around
Mon, 04/04/11
Not much is written about a second chance at love in one’s so-called senior years. After all, people with children, grandchildren and maybe even great grandchildren aren’t expected to enter the dating scene in their advanced years. But everyone…MORE
No foolin' yourself-get in shape
Wed, 03/30/11
If there's anybody who can "fool" anyone, that would be us - foolin' ourselves. And we don't always wait for April 1st to get the fooling done.
While fooling can be in all good fun, sometimes the truth of human behavior is funny enough for…MORE
