Social Critique

Excellent writing (and reading) advice: your hero's stated intent is never the real reason for his journey. The real reason is ALWAYS SE...

The year of 2014 is complete, and it was a mighty year for books. The year's end always brings for me the great joy of reading "Boo...

IF YOU were to tell your life story, how would you prove it is true?   In his moving new book, The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes grapple...

During this past weekend’s Northwest Bookfest , Mitchell Maxwell, a Tony Award winning Broadway producer spoke at Kirkland ’s Performance ...

As a kid I loved Wham-O’s Slip ‘n Slide.   Each summer my father retrieved that long tattered piece of banana colored plastic from some dust...

A 1966  Seattle Times article quoted one then-Kirkland-housewife as saying, “Kirkland really is a glorified bedroom for Bellevue, Renton and...

Communities across our country are riddled with holes: empty store fronts that are peepholes through which you can see a once thriving busin...