The windshield wipers could not keep up. A sideways-borne torrent of a gully-washer rain beat against the glass almost obscuring even the huge hulking shape of the semi behind which my little Super Beetle huddled as we splashed our way slowly forward. ‘Not even a day for ducks,’ I muttered, pulling my sleeve over my […]
Letter: Deliver
It is said that there are three phases to life that are difficult: Start-up, Keep-up, and Give-up. Start-up is hard. Remember those days when you were so few in number anybody who raised their hand there in that first-grade classroom was on the team? And in life, as in baseball, keeping up is harder. It […]
Letter: I Will Remember
When I can’t see the forest for the trees, I will remember. “When sorrows,” as Horatio Spafford wrote, “like sea billows roll,” I will remember. When tears cloud my vision like rain borne sideways against the windshield, obscuring the road ahead, off to the side of the road I will go, and there I will […]
Letter: Before The Lights Go Out
Shortly after 5 a.m. this morning a truck hit a light pole and our community was instantly dark. No street lights, no neighbor’s lights and, in our own home, no wall night lights. There was coffee though. Set to perk at 5 a.m., the pot preempted the pending predicament by enough minutes for me to […]
Letter: Tomatoes – Harbingers of Hope
We lost everything. Very early in the morning this past April 3, the phone rang. Our place of business was on fire. It’s the call you never want to receive. A police officer approached where I stood watching the flames rage against the dark sky. And over the roar of the inferno he said, “There’s no easy […]
Letter: “Rare and Beautiful Treasures”
There’s a proverb, according to the Aramaic translation, which reads: “A house is built by wisdom and by understanding it is entirely put in good order. And the inner chambers are filled by knowledge with every possession, honor, and delight.” But it’s not brick and motor, cabinets and furniture, or trinkets of one kind or […]
Letter: Just Across A Crowded Room
“The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.” ― Victor […]
Letter: Is Racial Discrimination on the Clover Park School Board Agenda for June 13, 2022?
As of Saturday, June 4, 2022, no agenda has been provided to the public for the June 13, 2022 public meeting of the Clover Park School District Board of Directors. But on Friday, June 3, the following announcement was posted by the Tacoma Urban League, headlined: “Attend Clover Park School District School Board Meeting on June 13th at […]
Letter: Home Run
At the April 25, 2022, Clover Park School District meeting of the board, one of four proposals receiving consensus to be discussed at an upcoming workshop was that made by President Alyssa Anderson-Pearson: encouragement of sports throughout the district, especially for children who might not otherwise have an opportunity to play. Of course, as ‘head […]