Whale’s Tales
Late last month, a small Texas city joined an ever-expanding list of cities and sites that none of them ever wanted to be on. Formerly… Continue reading
I have thinking lately about goofy, patently absurd notions. The sort that people would have laughed out of doors not so long ago, but now… Continue reading
Whale’s Tales
I have been thinking a lot lately about the Prohibition Era in the United States and the fiery, brook-no-argument crusaders who pushed for it. Like… Continue reading
Not so long ago, one could have called me a dyed-in-the-wool, hard-core skeptic about cryptids. Cryptids. You know Bigfoot, Yeti, the chupacabra, the Jersey Devil,… Continue reading
Whale’s Tales
With the approach of Mother’s Day, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my own mother, gone 16 years ago this month, how much I… Continue reading
Whale’s Tales
The past is like a foreign country — they do things differently there. Oddly enough, I’ve been thinking about those words lately in light of… Continue reading
Whale’s Tales
It is a July day in 1969, and I am with my family at Lake Surprise. I have just finished first grade in Mrs. Foster’s… Continue reading
The Auburn Police Department reports that in the early morning hours of Feb. 25, a man tried to force his way into the apartment of… Continue reading
To say that anything is possible is to condition the sinister, pitfall corollary that nothing is ridiculous. So you told me, dad. All I can… Continue reading
Whale’s Tales
Those who know me know me know I’m a bit of a stickler about language. Not so much about the grammar, although of course that… Continue reading
Auburn man operated storefront businesses in Kent and Renton that fronted as legitimate pawn shops.
Whale’s Tales
As one small part of the often derided “legacy media,” I am aware that what I am about to say won’t find sympathy with many… Continue reading
Whale’s Tales
I was born late — exactly three weeks — despite my mother’s earnest efforts to speed the process along with various over-the-counter elixirs. I don’t… Continue reading
Whale’s Tales
When I was growing up in the 1970s, like many others I enjoyed “The Waltons,” Earl Hamner Jr.’s televised account of his childhood in the… Continue reading
Man pleads not guilty to first-degree voyeurism charge in December 2021 incident at Auburn casino
South King County’s new recycling and transfer station is expected to be completed in 2026.
Whale’s Tales
From March 2020 until recently, it seemed to me that COVID-19 always hit someone far off, the man who’d been incautious, the woman who screamed… Continue reading
