A local journalist wrote recently comparing the disaster of 9-11 in 2001 to that of Custer in 1876. As a “Custer buff” I was immediately...

Yesterday I had a book signing, probably one of the fantasies of those seeking to be published. The wannabe author imagines being seated...

My latest book with Turner Publishing is now out, Historic Photos of Seattle in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. I had posted the availability on...

The recent kerfuffle over the dismissal of a civil servant who was framed by a doctored video underscores something I’ve believed for a...

Monday, the Supreme Court reinforced its position that gun ownership is an individual right as set out in the Second Amendment to the...

I get irritated with the clamor to ban offshore oil drilling because of the current disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. I wish people would...

I received good news this week. University of Washington Press is listing two books of mine in their online catalogue. The first is Power...

Steve Sadis, the producer and my co-writer for The Power of Snoqualmie Falls informs me that the video has been nominated for an Emmy....

It’s time to join the cacophony over the Gulf oil spill. I worked for the EPA as a criminal investigator for sixteen years, thirteen of...

I can’t believe that it’s been forty years since the killings at Kent State. In Kent, Ohio they call the event May 4th like December 7th...

Two weeks ago, Mike Shanahan died. He was my chief of police and assistant chief for two years in the early 70s. I moved on to be a...

The folks at Turner Publishing Co. in Nashville have a new project for me, Historic Photos of Seattle in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. It’s the...

Today there appeared a news item about Seattle Police and a man who was the subject of a felony arrest warrant. The police followed the...

I will rant a bit on history as it appears on cable. I say cable since the broadcast stations don’t feature much in the way of...

Six-year-old Alice lies half reclined on the stretcher struggling against asthma to breathe. Her alveolar sacs are paralyzed and her...

In my posts about my work speaking up for abused and neglected children I have mentioned those kids who are adopted once their parents’...

This is another theological term like reincarnation, resurrecton, and immaculate conception hijacked by literature and modern culture....

The loss of five police officers in a little more than a week here in the Puget Sound region made me remember how lucky I am to having...

It’s been a year of premiers, the big events that mark chapters in life. Where to start? We all strolled the red carpet to meet Kellen...

My ancestors were at the first one in 1621. Teenagers Elizabeth Tilley and John Howland survived that first winter when her parents died...