West Seattle - Opinion

By Kyra-lin Hom

Some weeks I struggle for column topics. No matter how I wrack my brain, I just can't get impassioned about anything. And then some weeks, for better or for worse, inspiration falls into my lap.

This week, at…MORE

By Kyra-lin Hom

Hello again, everyone. I apologize for my absence last week. The cough I had been holding off for several days made a final charge to devastating effect. I was rendered rather witless without warning and was thus unable to…MORE

By Kyra-lin Hom

After my two week dive into the horrors of the American Big Food Industry (my own phrasing, not an official term), I've been trying to live by my own advice: only eating meat and animal products harvested by cruelty-free,…MORE

By Kyra-lin Hom

It is currently way too hot for thinking. My apartment is on the third floor of an old, air tight converted house. It's air tight to cut down the sound pollution from the nearby airport. This it does remarkably well. So we…MORE

By Kyra-lin Hom

My study abroad semester in Beijing, China included a program-wide excursion to Yangshuo in southeastern China. For those who know their Chinese geography, Yangshuo is a small county within the Guilin prefecture of Guangxi…MORE

By Kyra-lin Hom

When writing a column, I strive to keep with issues I feel strongly about. After all, if I'm to write an opinion column, it helps me to actually have that opinion. The downside is that I often feel like a one-woman doom…MORE

Kyra-lin Hom

Before anything else, I need to make a correction to last week's column. Based on the statistics that currently 1 in 5 high school-age boys and 1 in 11 high school-age girls in the US are medically diagnosed with ADHD, I said…MORE

By Kyra-lin Hom

I recently peer reviewed a classmate's statistics paper on ADHD. Her son had been exhibiting hyperactive traits. So she decided to look at the rates of ADHD diagnosis in children and the various treatments proscribed in…MORE

By Kyra-lin Hom

By definition, mainstream culture is never going to be the avant-garde. It's never going to be cutting edge, and it is never going to lead the pack. Mainstream culture is all about what is popular, meaning what has already…MORE

By Kyra-lin Hom

I love that we in West Seattle do an official Community Garage Sale Day. Whoever decided to get that started near a decade ago, very nice. Consider this my vote for more and varied community events in the future.

I'…MORE