by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
Washington, D.C. If you wish to become an optimist and understand life, stop believing what people say and write, observe and discover for yourself. — Chekhov Howard Beach, Central Park, Bensonhurst: These tragic events are fact, they are indisputable. I believe. But...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
Washington, D.C. How dismaying to see Pete Wilson recant. When he was Mayor of San Diego in the 1970’s and early 80’s, he developed a nationally acclaimed affirmative action program. “It must come from the heart,” he once told the City Council, “but we must have goals...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
LACEY, WASH. – The death and destruction of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, then the anthrax scare, and who knows what next have shaken Americans to the core. To allay the fear, and deny the terrorists’ objective of miring us in it, we have been advised...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
The small voice of conscience converses with the American psycheBy Carla Seaquist Gig Harbor, Wash. VOICE: What’s happened to us? Wake up. What’s happened to us? BEHEMOTH: What? Who’s talking? And … how’d you get inside my head? VOICE:...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
By CARLA SEAQUIST GUEST COLUMNIST Our neighbors across the street are immigrants, from India. Recently, after we moved in, we invited them by for an evening. Over tea we exchanged personal histories, anxieties about Sept. 11 and its significance, plans for the future...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
Gig Harbor, Wash. With the end of the Iraq war, no more serious talk, right? Au contraire. Elemental questions remain – of who we are and where we’re going; questions that our “victory” in Iraq only heightens, especially as we presume to...
