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Academy Award winning producer launched her career at The Olympian

posted 06:49 AM 03/06

Before Audrey Marrs had even walked off the stage clutching her first Academy Award last Sunday night, The Olympian's former classified advertising manager, Mike Leonard, was already on the phone, leaving me a voice mail.

Democracy flourishes at home, not so much at national level

posted 07:32 AM 02/27

What do the isthmus development debate, last year's big backlog of county assessment appeals and the misguided $180,000 speech bubbles artwork once proposed for the new Olympia City Hall have in common?

Millions of Americans have not protected their privacy on Facebook

posted 07:56 AM 02/20

Chances are you probably have a Facebook account. That means you are one of more than 600 million people around the world connected via the social network site.

Guys better be paying close attention to the calendar today

posted 07:35 AM 02/13

Note to guys: The most dangerous day of the year is sneaking up on you. In fact, it's hiding just around the weekend, poised for an unfortunate ambush unless you take precautions right now.

Olympia climber summits tallest mountains on seven continents

posted 07:43 AM 02/06

Why would someone spend a princely sum to visit "the world's coldest desert," where less than an inch of precipitation falls each year and temperatures can reach minus-94 degrees?

Can't get brain around these things, or mouth around this burger

posted 07:58 AM 01/30

Here's something for junior legislators up on the Capitol Campus to do while waiting for their party's leadership to make $4.6 billion in budget cuts: pass laws that fine those who violate my personal pet peeves. A few modest suggestions:

Life as a new grandparent looks stress-free and guilt-free too

posted 07:11 AM 01/23

I'm suffering from an injury that I like to call "grandparent whiplash." It happened while going from zero to three grandchildren in just three weeks.

Mother's love for her daughter undimmed in wake of accident

posted 08:24 AM 01/16

Are there many different dimensions of existence in this world, or is it just our reaction to the challenges of life that separates us? Some people have never had a single bad thing happen to them. They live incredible lives of privilege, possibly without even recognizing or appreciating it.

McCartan and her volunteers create a 'home' for the homeless

posted 07:49 AM 01/09

For 87-year-old Clarice Mc-Cartan, it was a chance encounter at age 16 with the renowned social activist Dorothy Day that changed her life forever.

Fostering vulnerable children is life's work for the Vandeventers

posted 07:19 AM 01/02

A while back, I wrote a column about an independent film called "Nothing Special." It's about a woman who thinks she's quite ordinary and dreams of doing something special with her life. But in reality, she has sacrificed her personal dreams and ambitions, acquiring a damaged heart in the process, to care for her bipolar mother.

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