Founding Fathers on Religious Freedom
A Facebook post by Dan Rittenhouse yesterday sent me on a quest to learn more about the Founding Fathers and their views of religious freedom. As y’all know, the Declaration […]
Book Review: The Shadow of the Wind
Wouldn’t you love to know what giants in the publishing world are reading for pleasure? The World’s Best Book Club was kick-started by one of these executives, and he highly […]
SCOTUS: No Guns for DV Perps!
This morning in Voisine v. United States, the United States Supreme Court ruled that domestic violence perpetrators are prohibited from owning firearms. Justice Elena Kagan wrote the a 6-2 decision: The federal […]
Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Victory Speech in Brooklyn
If we stand together, we will rise together. – Hillary Rodham Clinton Last night I popped the cork on a bottle of champagne and watched Hillary Rodham Clinton’s victory speech […]
Bravo: Hillary Clinton Breaks the Glass Ceiling
Tonight I am overwhelmed. The women’s movement is 100 years older than I am, and I never thought I’d live to see the day that a woman would be nominated […]
Book Review: All Summer Long
Nobody writes a beach book like Dorothea Benton Frank, and this year’s All Summer Long will transport you from Manhattan to Sullivan’s Island and other haunts of the 1%. The plot […]
Mill Creek’s Memorial Day Parade
Memorial Day kicks off summer, and nothing says summer to me like a parade. I have many happy memories of marching in parades with my high school’s band. Glacier Peak’s […]
Bravo: Deanna Gayle Walters Graduated with a BSW Today!
Guest column by Kit Gruelle Today is Deanna’s Big Day! She’s graduating from Appalachian State with her BSW, and I (we!!) could not be more proud of and happy for […]
Book Review: The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe
The Broadway play Hamilton has set me off on a frenzy of books about First Lady Louisa Adams (wife of John Quincy), Alexander Hamilton, and Julia Ward Howe (“Battle Hymn of […]
Artist’s Date: YMCA’s Trip to the Tulip Festival
Terry Huffer at Mill Creek, Washington’s YMCA plans the best trips for seniors. Yesterday we went to the Tulip Festival in Washington’s Skagit Valley. RoozenGaarde has been on my bucket list […]
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