A Winning Haiku Our regional monthly newspaper, The Columbia River Reader, has sponsored a Haiku contest for about the last 20 years. In case you don’t know what a haiku is, it’s a 17-syllable poem in 3 lines of verse. The first line is 5 syllables, the second is 7, and the third one is 5 syllables …
99¢ Sale! 99¢ Sale! 99¢ Sale! The boat’s motor died as the storm approached… Dr. Julia Fairchild and sister Carly flew to Virgin Gorda for a “no-detecting-allowed” vacation. Carly had extracted the promise from Julia because it seemed like they stumbled on bodies no matter where they went. Sun-bathing and drinking mai tais were to …
