By Sandy ComptonReader Columnist It’s the end of golf season. Mourning should be over by April. Mariners fans are mourning, as well, though baseball season is not quite over as I write this. Nor...
From the past on television By Sandy ComptonReader Columnist In the face of the media storm of the last few weeks, one of my editors asked me for something written before the internet took...
By Sandy ComptonReader Columnist A shower of sand fell from my pack as I emptied it today. The stuff is whiteish, with gray and tan highlights. In my mind, there’s a big mystery about...
By Reader Staff Celebrated local author Sandy Compton has released his 16th book, Alex’s Restaurant — a semi-autobiographical novel drawing on the wild eight months he spent working in a Nevada mountain lodge. Known...
By Sandy ComptonReader Columnist It’s 4:19 p.m. on the day when “A Few Thoughts” is due, and I’m just getting to it. It’s been on my mind, but my mind has not been coming...
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist After 61 days away traveling the West — with 10 days on Maui thrown into the middle — it’s good to be home. I drove 7,434.8 miles, took way...
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist By some combination of luck and perseverance, I am six weeks into a 60-day drive-and-fly road trip. This is the vacation I planned to take when I retired from...
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist I turned 74 last week, and I’m thinking of turning away from political commentary. I have tried for 25-plus years to get people to think for themselves about who...
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist My last column prompted interesting letters to the editor, some of which weren’t printed because the writers didn’t wish to be in the public eye. One that did get...
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist Long ago, I saw (by accident) an episode of The Apprentice, and learned that Donald Trump is a bully. I never ventured there again. Trump is still a bully....
