If you’re my age or better, you probably read “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” in your formative years and grew up already knowing the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything. But on April 15, 1997, on the 50th anniversary of the...
I taught school for 30 years, 19 of them at the elementary level. During that time, I usually scheduled a 15 minute “free reading” period right after lunch. The children could choose any book they wished to read, the only requirements being that it had to have more...
My grandmother on my mother’s side hailed directly from England. She died before I was born, but to hear my mother tell it “Grandma and the Queen” were just like “this”—and she holds her crossed fingers up to indicate just how tight they were. From time to time, I...
Thirty-five years ago today, the Seattle Mariners played their first game at the Kingdom. They scored no runs, losing to the Angels, 7 to 0. In the interim, the Mariners have had only one year I’d call stellar—2001—and yet I remain a true-blue Seattle fan. I attend a...
“The Road Not Taken” is Robert Frost’s most popular poem, and I am among those who call it my favorite. I used to wish a lesser-known poem appealed to me more, as I rather resent the implication that I’m just a number in the mass majority appreciating this work. Which...
