by Carla Seaquist | Jul 15, 2020 | Essay
“Exchange rate” does not mean much in our workaday lives.  But we develop a functional understanding in short order when traveling abroad.  There it hits home that “exchange rate” is “money,” a term so meaningful that it runs a close second to whatever is in first...				
					
			
					
											
								
							
					
															
					
					 by Carla Seaquist | Mar 20, 2020 | Review
Canadian and American audiences are ready for some dramatic transcendence. That was the hopeful theme that emerged from a debate at the Ottawa International Writers Festival last weekend where I was moderating a conversation about whether theatre matters between two...				
					
			
					
											
								
							
					
															
					
					 by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
GIG HARBOR, WASH.—In the aftermath of the murderous Tucson shootings, conservatives have been assiduously making the point that the shooter now in custody is suffering from mental illness, unconnected – unconnected, they insist – with any political ideology. Yet...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
by Carla Lofberg Valenta If the executive offices of the company where you work have the aspect of a “men’s club,” then it is not very likely that any “affirmative action” will originate from within the “club.” For it is the...