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Reawakening my inner, snow-loving child
A Half-Bubble Off Plumb Reawakening my inner, snow-loving child Randal B. Thatcher Colmnist 12-8-2016 Leaving my native state of Utah some 30 years ago, I felt glad to be also leaving behind the condemnable snows of a Utah winter—swapping all that troublesome white stuff for the less hassle-inducing rains of a Seattle winter. …
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Optimism is more comfortable than pessimism
Optimism is more comfortable than pessimism Corrie Lynne Player Columnist 10-20-2016 Are you an optimist or a pessimist? Do you see the glass as half empty or half full? How you perceive the world will affect whether or not you can be happy no matter what happens around you. Research shows that happy…
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Heading up into the hills… my first real hunt
Heading up into the hills… my first real hunt By Randal B. Thatcher After four years of living in this lovely, high-mountain valley of ours, and having had so many horizon-broadening “country” experiences during that time, I wasn’t sure how many of these experiential “firsts” were still left for me to assimilate. But…
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My Life Has Been Blessed
My Life Has Been Blessed Corrie Lynne Player Columnist 9-15-2016 As the oldest of five, I had the perfect childhood for somebody who wanted to be a writer—a homestead at Kenny Lake, in the wilderness of Alaska. My parents and the crew daddy had flown with during WWII planned to form a…
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Ensuring the family pet’s well-being
Ensuring the family pet’s well-being By Corrie-Lynne Player Columnist 8-18-2016 Last time, I told you about what happened when I acquiesced to my almost grown daughter’s pleas for a dog. She insisted that she’d “always take care” of it. Her desire for a pet lasted exactly a week. I ended up feeding, watering…
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Tips for building lasting love
Heaven Help Us Tips for Building lasting love Corrie Lynne Player Columnist 3-2-2017 It’s traditional to talk about love and relationships during the month of February. Store aisles are filled with red teddy bears, dancing hearts and candy kisses. Retailers hope you’ll splurge on your sweetheart, and they spare no…
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Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come
Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come Randal B. Thatcher Columnist 1-19-2017 A New Year has dawned, and with it, a fresh new beginning, filled with optimism and hopeful expectation. Or, as Tennyson put it: “Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be…
