Opinion
Thoughts on writer’s block and other first word problems | Whale’s Tales
I once heard an anecdote about a writer who’d spent a week in his apartment working on his…
Opinion
Ready for another cold apple from life’s vending machine | Whale’s Tales
Call it the sweetness of life.
Opinion
Cold War fallout shelter survives in childhood memories | Whale’s Tales
Dad never finished the bomb shelter.
Opinion
Here’s a theory on the fate of conspiracy theorists | Whale’s Tales
If you try to reason with people like that, that the conspiracy they are going on about isn’t…
Opinion
It’s time to laugh instead of cringe at politicians | Whale’s Tales
Day after day, you and I watch politicians stand before the cameras, lie shamelessly and get away with…
Opinion
What sort of learning really matters when it’s all over? | Whale’s Tales
It will be about what does not perish when we do.
Opinion
Here are some troublesome aspects of chemotherapy | Whale’s Tales
Life without hope draws nectar in a sieve, hope without an object cannot live.
Life
‘It’s a chance to thank all of those who came before me’
U.S. Air Force veteran and Auburn resident reflects on her service.
Opinion
Energetic puppy flummoxes all-thumbs owner | Whale’s Tales
I had contrived to reach 62 years of age without the big event.
News
Project targets major flooding of Green River
The risk posed to the 21-mile corridor could affect more than 27,000 residents and the stability of 28,000…
Opinion
Incredible memories of not-so-incredible edibles | Whale’s Tales
After more than 56 years, I can still smell and taste the rubbery things.
Opinion
My heroes include Dickey Betts and Merriman Smith | Whale’s Tales
I admire these guys for very different reasons.
Opinion
Let’s all paws and appreciate the wisdom of dogs | Whale’s Tales
I’ve heard people say that human beings are the only creatures that know they will die.
Opinion
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives | Whale’s Tales
It seems I got to be a geezer awful fast.
Opinion
Snake oil salesmen thrive in the social media age | Whale’s Tales
Like Teddy Daniels, a former candidate for Pennsylvania lieutenant, who is prominently featured in a series of doomsday,…
Opinion
Once upon a time, there was a local journalist | Whale’s Tales
I could call up any large chain store in a city and talk to someone without being told…
Opinion
If you’re right, and you know it, then read this | Whale’s Tales
As the poet Theodore Roethke once wrote: “In a dark time the eye begins to see…”
Opinion
The wit and wisdom of Mrs. Whale carries on | Whale’s Tales
Now I am the one with the terminal cancer. I’m where my mother was.
Opinion
Foreign languages often find a better way to say it | Whale’s Tales
Not since I was 14 years old, I have been enthralled by languages.