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I’ve been a public defender in Seattle for twenty-two years, tried many adult and juvenile cases, and negotiated plea agreements more...

I often wondered whether my sons read up on birth order theory while still in the womb. Embodying the theory, my first-born has always...

Way, way, back in 1981 B.C. (before cellphones), Michael Crichton, who brought us Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain, dabbled in a...

I can’t count the number of times I’ve been on job interviews, and on many of them I would’ve been crushed if I got hired. I’ve worked in...

On Friday, November 22, 1963, about a month before my sixth birthday, I was playing with my favorite little yellow tractors on a small...

When I was nine years old, my stepfather picked me up from school one day and took me to a junkyard somewhere between downtown Fort...

“A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water” – Eleanor Roosevelt. Did you know that an...