Like the water lily pads on the pond, the coupleβs recollections skipped across the years.
There is something to be said for those individuals who at times do β and should β become uncorked. Including my pre-school granddaughter.
Never tell boys or girls to line up. Not if you want them to succeed in life.
While picking up litter he found a one-dollar bill. But he also got paid far more than what he could take to the bank.
Turning our children into "militant leftists." Will that happen here?
A rainbow baby is a reminder of the miracle that is life after a dark and terrible storm.
The storybook words of βonce upon a timeβ usually end with βand they lived happily ever after.β But for us, that's not true. What then?
There was a decision to be made, and it had to do with a young man. If she were true to him, the social status, money and fame would fade.
What they could see with their minds would determine the way in which they worked with their hands.
When he died it was said that he had βdeparted without being desired.β He had been a leader, but he had left no legacy.
What works for the classroom should work in the boardroom.
They refuse to surrender to whatβs easy or convenient or economically best; they shun media ratings, opinion polls and interviews.
In friendship, loyalty takes second to honesty and the latter requires courage to speak the truth - what they most need to hear -to friends.
The victim bravely recounted to the judge the depths of the horror, the pain, the grief and the despair that she had suffered.
Should we be concerned as a tax-paying public and as the parents of children attending Clover Park schools that all may not be well?
βObjective and accurate β these things are very important to me,β said school board President Shafer. Except when they're not.
To go to camp cost money for us kids. Grandpa and his silver dollars could have paid our way. But he gave us something more valuable.
We now know who is behind the circulated letter that believes Clover Park School Board Director Paul Wagemann made a racist comment.
Every single one of the 86 emailed letters to the Clover Park School District criticizing Board Director Paul Wagemann are exactly the same.
βCβmon Old Faithful,β he whispered as he cranked the four cylinder engine over.
Like a flower in a greenhouse, peeking down the road, she had flagged down the passing motorist. That's when the nightmare began.
I threw the rock as far as I could into the placid surface. I wanted that peaceful lake to be as disturbed and troubled and hurt as I was.
The green peppers of the world have united! Vive la revolution!
How dreams come true.
It resisted but didnβt struggle as I slowly reeled it in. Then I saw why; I had the half of something.
With the exception of promising to provide a link to the consultantβs website, the school board voted down Director Wagemannβs request.
Like a trout swimming upstream, a half-century of life has quickly slipped by since that fishing trip.
Cushioned in the comfortable confines of the crinkled leather heβd read himself to sleep. Until he read the story of the HMS Resolute.
The nation is watching what the school board does on January 11.
Safety measures are being "taken seriously." Like what?
Love, Individualism, Vision and Effort vs. Diversity, Inclusion and Equity: How best to educate our youth?
There is no check list. No grandiose set of goals, weight-loss programs, business endeavors, or other soon-to-be-broken-and-forgotten tasks
In a cathedral of filtered sunlight and scattered glimpses of blue sky, they walked the leaf covered path, hand-in-hand.
Death had not taken a Christmas holiday.
There is within the human heart a homing-device and it is always drawing, forever tugging, and faithfully leading us home.
Our family room is a microcosm of life. Life happens in the family room.
In trying to be like the other racers, it slipped into a four-wheel drift and crashed through a barricade.
Is the phrase 'crack the whip' racist?
His face was a picture perfect portrayal of a blank wall.
Because there was no room at the inn, He was born in a small stable and laid in a manger.