Opinion

So, how's that New Year's resolution to become a 'buff babe' or 'strapping stud' goin', eh? Yep, it's not quite as easy as those magazine covers promise, is it? "YOU CAN LOOK LIKE THIS IN ONLY TEN DAYS!" 'Hmph, talk about a pile of pies-in-the-…MORE

The woods on the hillside below our home stretched for what seemed like forever toward Puget Sound and Vashon Island across the channel. It was the private playground for the five Robinson brothers.

It was vast enough to be the imagined…MORE

Does love find us - or do we find love? Haven't we all kissed a few frogs before finding the prince or princess of our life?

Or maybe you're still in love's process of transition. If so, may Cupid soon appear with a perfect Valentine…MORE

(Editor's Note: In Publisher Jerry Robinson's travels last week he discovered Burien's Three Tree Point has gone to the birds as some chickens ran amok while their guards were apparently distracted by something fishy.)

If you've been in any of the grocery or drug stores, you'll see that they're loaded with flowers, chocolates, cards and doo-dads, which all speak of love and romance.

Yep, the retailers are ready to take your money in exchange for helping…MORE

How many times have I expounded about the animal kingdom of which we humans are all a part. Not only am I allergic to many, but I have rigid opinions about our relationship to what we sometimes term as the lower animals. In ancient China dogs…MORE

Meet Dayne Hansen. He is 84 with a smile as bright as a new penny.

He owns Dayne Hansen & Associates at 2215 S.W. 152nd St. in Burien, the former Kirk's Pharmacy. I have often wondered what was in there as I drove by.

Dayne is…MORE

I cannot allow 2010 to pass without noting that it represented the centenary of two significant events: women's suffrage in the state of Washington and the birth of my late mother-in-law, also in the state of Washington.

Washington's male…MORE

(Editor's Note: Utter the words 'National Treasure' and images of the Grand Canyon, redwood forests and Sally Field come to mind. To these must also be added ninety-six-year-old Fauntleroy resident Morey Skaret, whose life not only links us with…MORE

Did you ever wonder why we know so much about some things and almost nothing about other things? It all depends upon who is able to secure a research grant to find out. I know you have heard it from me before but here again it depends upon the…MORE