Steve johnston seattle times

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How to get through a power outage. Local News. I went to see some doctors, and they tried different treatments on me. In the early s I noticed that the left side of my face felt like it was asleep. Over the next couple years, other parts of my body started feeling weird, kind of numb. It was like someone hung a pie pan in front of it. I could look directly at an object but only see this large round black shape with some light poking around the edges. I went to the doctor, and he said I had an infection.

He gave me some pills and said it should clear up in a month or so. I went to the doctor, and he did a spinal tap. A spinal tap leaves you with a headache that makes you think your head will explode. A couple days later, the doctor called and said I had multiple sclerosis, the progressive type, meaning I was going to get a whole lot worse and maybe pretty fast. But at the time, I was way too busy to get sick and die. I had a wife and four kids who constantly rolled their eyeballs at me and generally acted like I was out of my mind, but they counted on me to bring home the bacon.

This doesn't come as any surprise to the Truly Unpleasant Mrs. Johnston, who I've had dogs all my life. Right now I have a dog named Rex and, like most of the dogs I've had over the years, After I woke up the other day, it took a few minutes to realize something was wrong. I didn't feel bad, but I couldn't help Steve Johnston. My job seldom involved interviewing celebrities, but I do have a photo of myself with Richard Nixon, who, long after he left office, came to Seattle for a Republican fundraiser.

The team was then owned by California real estate developer George Argyros, a Nixon friend. First-person stories were rare, but sometimes afforded a useful perspective. Once I was in a group of people consuming drinks served by Seattle police officers to see what it took to get to a level illegal for driving. A fun memory from my younger, fitter days was joining newly elected Gov.

The highlight was outdistancing the state trooper assigned to protect him. For nearly all of my Times career, I have been a general-assignment reporter, which means I did not have a specific beat. I might write about senior-citizen speed-dating one day and a looming snowstorm the next. But there were certain topics I followed for prolonged periods of time. Over the next several years, I covered two executions at the Washington State Penitentiary and was a witness at one, the hanging of Charles Campbell , who had fatally stabbed two women and a girl in Snohomish County 12 years earlier.

As his body dropped in front of our eyes, my reporter instincts were engaged, and I concentrated on noticing every detail. And a more selfish sense of relief that this troublesome case I had been tracking for years had come to its end. I also worked on many stories based on public-opinion polls conducted for The Times by Elway Research, not just on political races but also other public-policy questions.

In the spring of , the volcano burped to life two months before the actual eruption, and we had sent reporters to the area, on and off, for weeks, anticipating an eruption. We envisioned perhaps a river of lava, or maybe some pyrotechnics.