The Constant Harper

I can’t relate to Kindle.
The iPad leaves me cold.
I understand that the publishing industry is running scared. Fewer people read books these days. Fewer still buy them. Profit margins are shrinking, and publishers are grasping at any device to lure customers away from movies, television, and video games and back to the printed word.
I have [...]

Glee is one of those odd words which conveys in one short syllable both a giddy positivism and its twisted darker side. It’s a slightly psychotic word.
Perhaps that’s why it’s so apt as the title of the latest Fox network hit, which revolves around the bright hopes and delusional romances of a group of musically [...]

They’re doing it again.
Up there in Skagit Valley, where the land flattens out for miles and the snow geese arrive in feathered clouds each spring, the tulips are tempting.
I succumbed to the call when I first moved to Seattle four years ago. I thought what could be more thrilling than acres and acres of tulips [...]

What strikes you first about a manatee is not its size, or its enigmatic expression, but its almost mystic aura of calm.
This is all the more striking when you happen to be with a group of excited tourists all eagerly flapping around trying to get close enough to touch and snap pictures of the elusive [...]