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Troubled Times for Trader Joseph’s

by Ellen Snortland | Jul 31, 2020 | Consider This | 0 |

As I’ve found from writing this column for decades, humor is bound to offend someone who doesn’t find it funny. And now those humor-challenged folks have taken aim at our beloved Trader Joe’s, a company that is famous for not...

It’s time for a content overhaul

by Ellen Snortland | Jul 23, 2020 | Consider This | 0 |

Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook… can you hear me growling? Even though it just had a major graphic overhaul, the content remains as-is. Am I the only one who remembers its genesis as “Facemash,” an internet-based meat market for...

Unstuck in time while stuck in place

by Ellen Snortland | Jul 16, 2020 | Consider This | 0 |

All over our country, statues—totems of our values—are being scrutinized like never before. Glaringly missing from these reevaluations is the issue of gender, as many of us are profoundly aware. According to a Smithsonian...

Time for eating crow and a bit of discomfort

by Ellen Snortland | Jul 2, 2020 | Consider This | 0 |

White people only, please. If you’re Black, read no further. Black people already know what I’m about to say, and worse, they have been saying it for decades. This is not about Jim Crow water fountains, peanut galleries, or...

Rose Parade float ‘Years of Hope, Years of Courage’ celebrates centennial of the 19th Amendment ratification

by Ellen Snortland | Dec 26, 2019 | Consider This, Editorials | 4 |

Spectacles — human beings are apparently “wired” to adore or abhor them. And I don’t mean the...

Breathing, sitting and contemplating does wonders for what we identify as stress

by Stephanie Torres | Dec 19, 2019 | Consider This | 0 |

I can’t stress enough that stress is utterly relative, whether it is between us and others...

Practices for Thanksgiving in the land of broken hearts

by Ellen Snortland | Nov 27, 2019 | Consider This | 0 |

Gratitude. Grace. Grief. These feelings are my spiritual “stuffing” as I celebrate Thanksgiving. I’m filled with gratitude when I think of my ancestors and what they went through to get here, to the United States of America. My...

Conservation lessons that I needed to learn earlier in life

by Ellen Snortland | Oct 17, 2019 | Consider This, Guest Opinions | 11 |

Mom, wherever you are, I hope you can hear this: I’m sorry. You were right. My late parents, Barbara and Arnold, grew up in North Dakota, one of the most rural states in America. Their village was tiny, and most citizens only...

What if ‘American Ninja Warrior’ morphed into escapist programming for our times?

by Ellen Snortland | Oct 3, 2019 | Consider This | 0 |

In turbulent times, many people seek solace and escape via television. For my husband Ken and me it wasn’t “Game of Thrones” or “Breaking Bad” … it was, and still is “American Ninja Warrior.” ANW is the perfect antidote to what...

Questioning authority is a hallmark of social progress

by Ellen Snortland | Nov 15, 2018 | Consider This | 0 |

Many of us are having to deal with and control our fury on a daily basis, primarily due to the nonstop dumpster fires that Drumpf and his cronies set and then fan. Lethal anti-semitism! Birthright citizenship! The Migrant...