by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
For some time now, the commentariat—columnists, critics, bloggers—has bashed the American public as “celebrity-starved,” gobbling every sighting and, better yet, smashup of a person “famous for being famous.” And, with the smashups...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
After a flood came streams of neighborly aid. GIG HARBOR, WASH.— “Home” is a term instantly understood, even for mobile Americans who, over a lifetime, change residence many times. No matter how long we live at a particular address, there is still that bit...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
“I’m all for progress,” Mark Twain once said. “It’s change I object to.” Not so the Democrats. Ever since Barack Obama won his early victory in Iowa calling for it, every candidate—Democrat and, less convincingly,...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
Editor’s note: Carla Seaquist is a Barack Obama delegate to the Democratic state convention next month in Spokane. Superdelegates looking to “close the deal” on the Democratic presidential nominee—Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama?—might consider anew the issue that...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Essay
Experience, as commonly understood, produces valuable things—wisdom, perspective, resilience, philosophical equanimity, wit. Experience knows lots about Life, supposedly; or at least it can tell, as Shakespeare put it, “a hawk from a handsaw.” Its most powerful...
