The Spring Races
April 13, 2025
The young know no limits. … More The Spring Races
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John Hartman Patterson: The Dude Abides
January 19, 2025
Whatever you do, don’t work the middle school dance night. … More John Hartman Patterson: The Dude Abides
The Road Not Taken
June 1, 2024
By Robert Frost In this bit of a lawyer’s road review I wish to dedicate this poem to our daughter Rachel J. Patterson. Most of us from around these parts graduate from High School, maybe go to college but nearly always return to the headwaters of our family origin, a town a lot like Everett … More The Road Not Taken
Baby Boomers: Born at the Right Time and Place.
December 30, 2023
In the Second World War, young Russian women, often just girls, would volunteer to fight at the front against the Germans. If assigned to a tank medical corps, their position was to ride on the back of a tank into battle while the male soldiers rode inside driving the tank and firing the weapons. Russian … More Baby Boomers: Born at the Right Time and Place.
Men at Work
November 28, 2019
We more or less live in a time where we have come to expect a quantum of leisure time and a variety of experiences. I recall early in the primary grades reading comments about how Americans had more time and more money than ever before to pursue relaxation and generally fun activities. What was not … More Men at Work
Survivor: Sentosa Island
June 9, 2018
Get ready for a very special episode of Survivor ladies and gentlemen, this week North Korea’s Kim Jong Un and our own Donald Trump square off in a game of nuclear chess, and answer the question, who will be voted off the island ? Dennis Rodman apparently is showing up and who knows, Kim Kardashian … More Survivor: Sentosa Island
Seattle Bike Share; Death Be Not Proud
September 24, 2017
Well here we go again, another effort at getting people out of their cars and on to bicycles. The idea of a bike share enterprise, private or publicly funded, refuses to die in Seattle. Why is it called “Bike Share” when in reality it is “Bike Rental”? Because in collectivized Seattle it is considered poor … More Seattle Bike Share; Death Be Not Proud
Dog Biscuits
April 23, 2017
Dogs put up with a lot, particularly what people name them. Imagine the what David Eitner, Doctor of Veterinarian Medicine comes across in his daily practice. I casually mentioned to him the prevalence of pretentious names people give their dogs I have encountered and he had plenty to say. It is hard to think of … More Dog Biscuits
The Dr. Barry Nyman PhD Interview
March 30, 2017
Our children, it seems, face greater hurdles than they have in the past, and the hurdles are spaced closer together than ever before. I asked my long time associate and local clinical physiologist Dr. Barry Nyman Ph.d. into the studio to reflect on his long career and his impressions on where we have been as … More The Dr. Barry Nyman PhD Interview
Hey, Nonny, Hey
March 9, 2017
The practice of family law has left me with a healthy respect for what Shakespeare meant with this passage from Much Ado About Nothing: Sigh no more, ladies, sigh nor more; Men were deceivers ever; One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never; Then sigh not so, But let them … More Hey, Nonny, Hey
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