The word pops up from time to time, but most of us are unlikely to pay it much attention.
An object may lean only so far to one side before it goes over, unless set upright again.
The murder of political activist Charlie Kirk, the 31-year-old founder of Turning Point USA, on Sept 10 at Utah Valley…
I first read John Howard Griffin’s “Black Like Me” in Mrs. Dickinson’s seventh-grade English class at Cascade Junior High in…
In parts of the world, lives and battles lost more than 1,000 years ago still get human blood boiling.
As most of us learned at school, the U.S. Constitution requires a supermajority of three-fourths of the states to ratify…
The initial news was grim enough on its own: flash flooding in Central Texas had taken dozens of lives, with…
For all their flaws, the founders of the United States were brilliant.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem recently defined habeas corpus before a congressional hearing as “the right that the…
Among the fascinating relatives of the noun “instinct” is the German term “Fingerspitzengefühl.”
My brothers and sisters tell me they have also been called to account for using “big words.”
At this moment, many of our distracted countrymen glare at each other over a rigid barrier of hardened suspicion and…
Ever since it invented the skid steer loader in 1960, the Bobcat Company claims on its website, it has “helped…
Road trips through the heart of Eastern Washington’s one-horse towns are among the most treasured memories of my childhood.
Questioning methods, as I see it, has nothing to do with politics or personal animosities.
I no longer fear death itself, but I could do without dying.
As readers of this column may know by now, I am a word person.
We got her from a friend of Ann’s, as one of the two remaining pups from a litter of nine.
On March 8, I met a reader and sometime critic of this column for lunch.
As readers of this column may know by now, I am a terminal cancer patient.
For most of my life, that’s how I felt about myself.
It stuns me how often we are guilty of doing the very thing we complain about and despise in others when they do it, but excuse it in ourselves.
