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Think About It: Transactional … say what?
Transactional. My love of words and curiosity about their use cause me to ponder the fashion of using…
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Think About It: Weathering the storm of change
We can’t say we weren’t warned that someday change would overtake us. I remember decades ago seeing a…
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Think ABout It: A lot like Christmas
Last Christmas, we attended a holiday open house in our neighborhood. The evening was festive with friendship, conversation…
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Think About It: The business of government
The President appointed his Director of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney as acting director when the bureau’s director…
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Think About It: No more silence, no more denial
Whatever we do as decent men and women in the midst of all these voices coming forward and…
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Think About It: No easy or good answers
Occasionally, I am asked how I come up with column ideas every couple of weeks. I have no…
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Think ABout It: Halloween story, the sequel
“Bring Grandpa some of his favorite tea. The kind with an ounce of Pernod in it,” shouted his…
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Think About It: Halloween story redux
It’s unbelievable! The response was fantastic. Never happened before. Said to be the greatest Halloween story ever. No…
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Think About It: The high price of uncertainty
Different people have speculated that President Trump may be “gas-lighting” us. I had a vague recall of a…
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Think About It: Category 5 labor negotiations
I write this nearly a week before the strike deadline set by the teachers of Sequim School District…
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Think About It: Forest fires and floods
I was wondering what astronauts see from their whirling home miles up in space when my mind-reader editor…
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Think About It: Malignant mobs
I have never thought that disorderly mobs were a good idea whether riots, protests or demonstrations of civil…
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Think About It: Hot topic
I’m pretty sure that Mother Nature doesn’t read my columns, but she might as well have given the…