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    Articles by Bertha Cooper
    Think About It: Weathering the storm of change
    Think About It: Weathering the storm of change
    By Bertha Cooper • January 3, 2018 1:30 am

    We can’t say we weren’t warned that someday change would overtake us. I remember decades ago seeing a table displaying…

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    Think ABout It: A lot like Christmas
    Think ABout It: A lot like Christmas
    By Bertha Cooper • December 20, 2017 1:30 am

    Last Christmas, we attended a holiday open house in our neighborhood. The evening was festive with friendship, conversation and good…

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    Think About It: The business of government
    Think About It: The business of government
    By Bertha Cooper • December 6, 2017 1:30 am

    The President appointed his Director of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney as acting director when the bureau’s director resigned. Mulvaney…

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    Think About It: No more silence, no more denial
    Think About It: No more silence, no more...
    By Bertha Cooper • November 22, 2017 1:30 am

    Whatever we do as decent men and women in the midst of all these voices coming forward and telling us…

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    Think About It: No easy or good answers
    Think About It: No easy or good answers
    By Bertha Cooper • November 8, 2017 1:30 am

    Occasionally, I am asked how I come up with column ideas every couple of weeks. I have no good answers;…

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    Think ABout It: Halloween story, the sequel
    Think ABout It: Halloween story, the sequel
    By Bertha Cooper • November 1, 2017 1:30 am

    “Bring Grandpa some of his favorite tea. The kind with an ounce of Pernod in it,” shouted his Grandson with…

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    Think About It: Halloween story redux
    Think About It: Halloween story redux
    By Bertha Cooper • October 25, 2017 1:30 am

    It’s unbelievable! The response was fantastic. Never happened before. Said to be the greatest Halloween story ever. No one else…

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    Think About It: The high price of uncertainty
    Think About It: The high price of uncertainty
    By Bertha Cooper • October 11, 2017 1:30 am

    Different people have speculated that President Trump may be “gas-lighting” us. I had a vague recall of a movie called…

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    Think About It: Category 5 labor negotiations
    Think About It: Category 5 labor negotiations
    By Bertha Cooper • September 27, 2017 1:30 am

    I write this nearly a week before the strike deadline set by the teachers of Sequim School District to meet…

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    Think About It: Forest fires and floods
    Think About It: Forest fires and floods
    By Bertha Cooper • September 13, 2017 1:30 am

    I was wondering what astronauts see from their whirling home miles up in space when my mind-reader editor happened to…

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    Think About It: Malignant mobs
    Think About It: Malignant mobs
    By Bertha Cooper • August 30, 2017 1:30 am

    I have never thought that disorderly mobs were a good idea whether riots, protests or demonstrations of civil disobedience. Organized…

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    Think About It: Hot topic
    Think About It: Hot topic
    By Bertha Cooper • August 16, 2017 1:30 am

    I’m pretty sure that Mother Nature doesn’t read my columns, but she might as well have given the coincidental happenings…

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    Think About It: Heating up?
    Think About It: Heating up?
    By Bertha Cooper • August 2, 2017 1:30 am

    I have believed for some years now that Greater Sequim is going to become the new California. Certain sea life…

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