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A Parade for Peace
Here’s what Michael Kinsley from Seattle’s Politico had to say about the shooting in Tucson: “No one is suggesting that one of those voices in the assassin’s head was John Boehner’s cigarette growl or...
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An Open Letter to the Spokanite in all of us
This is a letter written by the woman I have the biggest lady crush on. She’s darn cute, super smart and is the lead singer of a band. If she and I both had not found our respective significant others...
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To My Bike Thief
Congratulations! You’re the proud new owner of a 52-centimeter Trek 2.1 road bike. It might be a little small for you. Maybe you’ll give it to your girlfriend. Maybe you’ll hike the seat up ride around...
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Things to do about sadness that aren’t drugs.
Sometimes I get stuck. Like bigger-than-life sad/hopeless/can’t move stuck. That kind of stuck loops around in a bigger stuck, in which I know I’m not living life to its fullest but can’t quite sort...
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Ladies We Love: Kate Burke
There are some women in Spokane doing some super awesome things. In fact, there are a lot of women doing awesome things, so we’re starting a new series to let you know what the women of this city are...
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Bucking up.
This is what I looked like before I was sad. OH MY GOD JANUARY. It is so awful. There is science proving how awful it is — or “pseudoscience,” at least. According to Science, the most depressing day of...
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What our classmates didn’t know.
I’m reposting this story today in celebration of a guilty verdict. It was originally published on May 29, 2012 at community-building.org. Jolie sat on a blue picnic table outside our school cafeteria,...
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For Som: Grief.
I am taking a walk with someone today whom I have only begun to know. He’s saying something about “my twin brother and I…” “–Wait. You have a twin brother?” “Did. He died, oh, about three years ago.”...
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Earning Our Ovals
By The Apostate This week both The Inlander and the Spokesman were kind enough to remind us about Washington’s disengaged youth. In “Geriatrics vote. The youth don’t care.” Nick Deshais cited some data...
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Earth Turners Convergence
I grew up in Spokane. I also successfully convinced myself to hate it for two (admittedly lame) reasons: All the cool kids were doing it, and There wasn’t much that was appealing for anyone under 21 to...
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