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I am writing to let you know that I have a concern regarding Count Bruce D Fleming’s gutless campaigns. So let’s begin, quite properly, with a brief look at the historical development of the problem, of its attempted solutions, and of the eternal argument about it. We must give to bigotry no sanction, to persecution [...]

Cakehouse really is my favorite, for two reasons: one, it’s hard to get a cup of coffee in the ID, and two, those killer salty-sweet coconut buns. In another century, I used to work on the very north end of Rainier Avenue, which was probably when my love for the ID began. I’d go for [...]

Today I had to poop so badly the soles of my feet hurt. I thought, well, that’s strange. So I went and read up about reflexology and TCM until I glazed over. The blockage was literal and the relief immediate and palpable, which made a reflexological reading of the whole episode very satisfactory. In the [...]

I can’t remember the last time I set foot inside a church. My streak continued on a technicality: the service that Mom and I went to Sunday morning took place out on the lawn of Rosedale UCC. They had invited the congregations of two other churches to join them: St. Paul AME Zion and Colonial [...]

Last fall, my sister Mary moved from the Fairview neighborhood in Olathe to a house well over twice as big in a subdivision called Persimmon Hill. There she has the luxury of naming rooms by function: the Workout Room, the Loom Room, the Spare. Her house in Fairview was so close to the tracks that [...]