Today, I spent over three hours at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance with a friend and her husband. She is a patient there and I went with them to take notes, ask questions and offer support. Seattle Cancer Care Alliance has patients from all over the…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a report yesterday on the case of extreme food poisoning at a Dallas County Texas restaurant in 2010. Symptoms, which included fainting resulting from low blood pressure, occurred within minutes of consuming food from the restaurant and…
In our Tuesday column, a reader asked how you know when the spirit or soul leaves a body. One part of the answer read: In the late 1800s, Dr. Duncan MacDougall of Massachusetts conducted research on dying patients. He set their beds on specially designed…
She Bewitched us and gave us Heartburn. She sent us (You’ve Got) Mail. We learned secrets deep within Silkwood and wondered if just maybe the best romance begins between best friends, like Harry Burns and Sally Albright. Every woman on the planet remembers Meg Ryan’s…
Just got a voice message asking me to please post on my Facebook page or blog or Twitter account, or all of the above, that Sears has narrowed its Love.Hate charity competition to two charities -- The American Cancer Society and St. Jude Children's Research…
In our column today, we talked about contacting folks who are experiencing hard times, and how hard this can be if you've been out of touch. When we lose touch with relatives and friends after many years, it can seem both awkward and impossible to…
Charles Robert Wallace, who shot two sheriff's deputies last week, also confronted an 87-year-old woman in her home and then stole her car. She fought him with her cane, and he did hit her with the butt of his gun, but he didn't shoot here,…
I spent all day Saturday hopping with my good friend…to quilt shops. Each summer various quilt shops in Western Washington host the five-day, Shop Hop event. As we drove (200 miles out and home again), I kept thinking how our adventure was like a metaphor…
From the Desk of Fr. Doug What the Nuns’ Story is Really About Part Two I had no intention of writing a Part Two to last week’s article but two things happened that inspired me to do so. The first was the overwhelming response to…
A friend sent me the following words from a Catholic Church bulletin. The commentary was written by one of the parish priests. The second column he wrote will be posted tomorrow. From the Desk of Fr. Doug What the Nuns’ Story is Really About Many…
In my Rewind story today, I patched together what nursing life might have been like for Alice Hope, class of 1926 at Deaconess Hospital nursing school. The nursing school alums (it closed in 1980) have put together a beautiful wall of historic photos and anecdotes.…
My niece's dog, Shyla, a mini chihuahua, was killed in a tragic way last week. A deer in the wilderness behind their Spokane Valley home kicked her in the head. The doe had just given birth to a fawn and was protecting her baby, a…
The police scanners are on alll day in the newsroom and we've all learned to ignore them. But you can't help but hear the voices. They are male and female, chatter between officers and dispatchers and always unusually calm, professional, betraying no emotion. This afternoon,…
My Sunday story about John Baker, who lost his daughter to cystic fibrosis and now gives talks to teens about organ donation, was a grief exercise in the reporting. I didn't have Kleenex at the talk he gave to the Ferris students and couldn't stop…
The sadness crept in early this morning and made its home inside me. I could not understand it. Then I glanced at the calendar – oh, yeah. June 14th. My dad died on this day seven years ago. And my sisters and I spent the…
Our EndNotes column Tuesday warned people against donating to accounts set up for people in the community who have hit on hard times or have experienced great tragedy. Turns out, the person who opens it has all the control, and financial institutions don't monitor those…
You get the text 15 minutes after filing the Sunday story about the father who lost two children, one at birth, the other at age 20. The new baby in your extended family will get his first bath, courtesy of Nana, your sister, at 4…
Some Catholic sisters are taking their work on the road. Well, they are planning a bus trip across nine states stopping at homeless shelters, healthcare facilities, schools and food pantries to highlight their work with the poor and vulnerable in our communities. The tour, “Nuns…
In my extended family, I sometimes ask the 30-and-40-something members how long they think they'll live. Some think it's a weird question. But what I've learned from being part of a very large family, with multiple generations, is this: It's impossible to predict who will…
In today's Spokesman-Review, Curtis Johnson wrote a powerful guest opinion column about his desire to end his own life through the Washington law that allows people to do so if they have six months to live. His dilemma? He has rapidly progressing ALS – amyotrophic…
Judy Butler’s guest opinion column speaks beautifully to the on-going nonsense of the Vatican’s misbehavior toward women religious and therefore toward all women. Women – lay women, women living in religious communities, all of us - have had enough. We will no longer be silent.…
I interviewed a man named Hugh Davis, 68, on Thursday morning. He's a retired journalist and communications specialist who now works temp jobs overseeing education seminars. I am working on a future story about people who remain working after retirement. Davis even delivered flowers for…
From a recent Hallmark birthday card. 10 Things that Do Not Age Well; 1) Milk. 2) Men's feet. 3) Women's hairstyles. 4) Lettuce. 5) Kid Celebrities. 6) Things that are dead. 7) Teeth. 8) Cantaloupe. 9) Rock stars. 10) Hippies. What would you add to…
I have always said that the pope and I have a silent agreement: I don’t tell him how to say Mass and he doesn’t tell me what may or may not occur in my bedroom. So far, the plan has worked well. However, he continues…
The recent news that the New Orleans Times-Picayune is going from a daily to three times a week prompted comments from some people outside the newsroom. The asked me if I thought, like they did, that the end was near for all newspapers. Likely not.…
Spokesman-Review features writer Rebecca Nappi, along with writer Catherine Johnston of Olympia, Wash., discuss here issues facing aging boomers, seniors and those experiencing serious illness, dying, death and other forms of loss.
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