by Carla Seaquist | Jul 15, 2020 | Essay
“Exchange rate” does not mean much in our workaday lives. But we develop a functional understanding in short order when traveling abroad. There it hits home that “exchange rate” is “money,” a term so meaningful that it runs a close second to whatever is in first...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 20, 2020 | Review
Canadian and American audiences are ready for some dramatic transcendence. That was the hopeful theme that emerged from a debate at the Ottawa International Writers Festival last weekend where I was moderating a conversation about whether theatre matters between two...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
GIG HARBOR, WASH.—In the aftermath of the murderous Tucson shootings, conservatives have been assiduously making the point that the shooter now in custody is suffering from mental illness, unconnected – unconnected, they insist – with any political ideology. Yet...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
by Carla Lofberg Valenta If the executive offices of the company where you work have the aspect of a “men’s club,” then it is not very likely that any “affirmative action” will originate from within the “club.” For it is the...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
“Inseparable.” That describes my husband and me—the public image and, better yet, the private reality. So why were we separated nine months last year? Why eight months in store this year? Why, subtracting it all up, has nearly half of our five-year...
