Charley Gurche is tall, and lean, and travels widely with a professional camera and a banjo. Even more than his thick, and still dark hair, it’s his humor and sense of wonder that allows one to accept the ease with which he has gotten to be sixty years old without seeming to have aged past his teens. Continue reading A Natural Eye
“It’s busy, it’s hot,” Beth Robinette says without hesitating when she’s asked about life on the ranch this July.
It is early Monday, and one of Spokane County’s youngest and most unusual entrepreneurs is drinking coffee beneath the shade of her large, black cowboy hat.
By Tim Connor (originally published March 2, 2009)
(Editor’s note, 8.4.2014: Tim Krautkraemer continues to thrive in good health. After spending two years in the Teach for America program, as a Spanish teacher and football coach in Mississippi, Tim spent the past year teaching Spanish at a middle school in Bloomington, IN. This fall he’ll be at the University of Texas, beginning work on his master’s degree in Cultural Education.)
A few months before Spokane was introduced to the Center for Justice, eastern Washington was introduced to Tim Krautkraemer.
Continue reading Every Breath He Takes
By Larry Shook
Maybe it’s just my own PTSD talking, but I don’t think Secretary of State John Kerry is the first U.S. cabinet official in my lifetime to be guilty of cruel irony. Continue reading A Prayer for the Secretary
