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1 week ago | 
kitsapsun.com | Larry Little
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3 weeks ago | 
kitsapsun.com | Larry Little
In my April 5 column I offered some gratuitous advice to a frog. Kermit was scheduled to speak to the graduates of the University of Maryland and did so on May 22... appropriately ignoring most of my outdated advice and lame jokes. However, he offered some of his own. He had three suggestions, that in and of themselves contain some complexity worthy of pondering: “Finding your people, taking the leap, and making connections.”Let’s examine Kermit’s three tips.
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1 month ago | 
kitsapsun.com | Larry Little
It has often seemed to me that insightful and credible personal stories from the past are rare. If we are lucky, we may know some of the names of our long-deceased ancestors. We almost never know what they really were like. If they won the Medal of Honor, were they a kind father and loving husband? If they died in jail, was the sentence just and the death really from natural causes, and would he likely give you a coat, or steal it from you?
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1 month ago | 
kitsapsun.com | Larry Little
Larry LittleColumnistAt college in the mid-1960s I minored in history. Ever since, as time permits, my reading often includes biographies and occasionally autobiographies. As I am a slow reader sometimes a lengthy book will take me months to finish. Often, I never finish them; a pattern I suspect is far from uncommon. Unlike less scatterbrained readers, I generally focus on a particular historical period and then move to another.
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2 months ago | 
kitsapsun.com | Larry Little
We certainly have many ongoing challenges. Today I chose to address one huge challenge of a foreign policy nature; and two less obvious and seemingly smaller ones, both in the domestic arena. On the surface, Iran, and their obtaining nuclear weapons, seems to be the leading immediate foreign concern; albeit with less media attention than our economy and bellwethers of it — say, the price of eggs. I will leave tariffs and trade balances for others to discuss.
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Feb 24, 2025 | 
kitsapsun.com | Larry Little
A couple of times over the past month our third-grade granddaughter has asked me to listen to her reading a chapter or two from the 2016 comic book/ graphic novel “Dog Man,” by Dav Pilkey. In the recent past I had listened — from a distance, picking up one word out of three — to her reading out loud to herself from the book, complete with her bursts of laughter, and intermissions for replenishments of macaroni and cheese or cookies. As a veteran grandfather, I obviously accepted her invitation.
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Feb 8, 2025 | 
kitsapsun.com | Larry Little
Punxsutawney Phil, last weekend’s Pennsylvania-celebrated groundhog, apparently saw his shadow. His prediction of more winter seems accurate, at least for our recent Puget Sound intermittent yet persistent snowfall. For Phil and his millions of fellow groundhogs, I recommend staying as deep underground as you can, for as long as you can. Fortunately, I can eliminate one reason for staying deep, if you are a groundhog. It’s the fact that I have aged a bit and changed my location.
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Jan 26, 2025 | 
kitsapsun.com | Larry Little
The last couple of weeks have certainly not been a slow news period. First came news of the death of a man who was seemingly an unskilled President. Lost was the message in the photo of him with the leader of Israel on one side and the leader of Egypt on the other side — all relaxed and smiling. That Camp David Accord has largely stood the test of time. Next came the fires. Los Angeles focused our attention on the forces we cannot control, and how fast our political divisions emerge.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
kitsapsun.com | Larry Little
Larry LittleColumnistI liked Jimmy Carter. Perhaps the memory of Rosalynn and Jimmy can be a comfort during these challenging times. Carter first came to my attention when he successfully ran for President in 1976. I vividly remember the Vietnam War years and the years with Richard Nixon as President. My memory simply reinforces the seemingly common historical theme that those Johnson and Nixon years were uncomfortable at best, notwithstanding the incredible July 1969 moon landing.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
kitsapsun.com | Larry Little
To me, President Biden’s recent pardon of his son Hunter raises numerous fascinating issues, some political, and some personal. However, there is little doubt that the pardon is historic, controversial, and will have ripples likely extending for some time. Today I will try to unpack some of the issues as I see them at this moment, a few days after the news broke last Sunday in the midst of some wild football games.
