Tillicum

Victor Herrera will be whatever he wants to be in life. The reason why? Because he takes the time and effort to pick up litter in his community. And not just the five full garbage cans and three full garbage bags of litter he gathered, but also the three mattresses, a couch, a chair, and […]

Or is it both? The California Board of Education “wants to turn your children into militant leftists.” In an opinion piece dated March 18, Kaylee McGhee White wrote in the Washington Examiner that “a divisive and radical educational curriculum that would force a series of courses into the public school system based in critical race […]

The storybook words of “once upon a time” usually end with “and they lived happily ever after.” But what if the tale of our lives does not happen this way – what if the narrative of our actions leaves us facing the void of unhappiness? What then of this storybook ending? Sometimes through no fault […]

For weeks before opening night, posters had appeared on walls, in windows and on poles trumpeting the arrival of the nation’s most noted actress. Of humble origins, she had worked hard to earn such acclaim. This play would mark another high point in her career. But there was also a decision to be made, and […]

The two brother brick layers worked as quietly and smoothly as polished granite – with seemingly little effort and without a word passed between them. While one yielded a masonry hammer in his calloused right hand to trim and clean bricks, the other lifted a trowel in his rough right hand to butter up bricks […]

He was king with numerous opportunities to rule well during his eight year reign. He had not. During that time he had not achieved anything for his country or people that qualified as a distinguishable accomplishment of merit. Nothing. The people he had ruled were glad when he departed. “He passed away, to no one’s […]