It’s a disturbing irony.
The big table tells the story. I needed to clear it off to set it for dinner, so I took inventory of the stuff of life that lay scattered across the top.
Just a few weeks after she won re-election, Gov. Chris Gregoire now faces a $5 billion state budget shortfall.
I was urged not to say a kind word about George Bush. I was even asked, how could I, given all the mistakes he has made. It became even harder when my sister called me and said my 87-year-old mother waited three hours in the rain to vote for Barack Obama.
Ther’s no worse feeling than needing to change yourself, but not being able to, looking at yourself one way and having the world look at you a completely different way. It just hurts.”
Here’s a headline for you: “A NEW STUDY HAS COME OUT!”
Chris Gregoire was re-elected governor Nov. 4, but from the way she’s talking, you’d think her opponent, Dino Rossi, won the election.
We’re still a long way out from Christmas, even though one Seattle radio station is already playing holiday music around the clock, and gift catalogs have been clogging mailboxes since Halloween. Very soon, public schools and government buildings will decide what kind of displays will adorn their lobbies and classrooms. Here’s hoping that this year we can enjoy Christmas without any more intrusions from the forces of political correctness.
Parents need to provide love, acceptance “There’s no worse feeling than needing to change yourself, but not being able to,…
I didn’t want to write this article. But I came to the realization that I had to.
On election night, when I saw Barack Obama had won the presidency, I literally fell to my knees and wept. I thought about my 87-year-old mother who waited in line for hours to vote for a black man, or my father, with his steely brown eyes filled with tears. The pain was indescribable.
Why are old expressions old? Because human experience keeps validating them. A few timeless slogans explain why what happened, happened in the 2008 elections.
The election is over, but the sniping carries on.
T here was almost a very ugly confrontation at a Fred Meyer store the other day: Two guys who apparently had never met before came face-to-face in the frozen food aisle.
Elections give us winners and losers. Here are some, in addition to the candidates and issues.
It’s a troublesome world right now. We’re concerned about the war, the economy, the election – all rightfully so. But let me ask you to step back and reflect.
In 1929, my parents were 13 years old. I’m sure they didn’t have any idea what caused the sudden downturn in the economy at the end of that year.
One thing about economics – like time and the weather, it plays no favorites.
It happened on a rainy election night.
While out for a jog the other day (a jog that turned into a sprint when a German shepherd came after me), I noticed a “For Lease” sign sitting in the empty window of a failed restaurant. After the dog got distracted and ran after a bicyclist, I strolled back to the restaurant and peered in the window.
