‘Yet’ is such a lovely little word although, typically, the context is one of turmoil. The “Are We There Yet?” nursery rhyme, for example, takes the incessant and insistent backseat question of the impatient traveling companions and turns groans into games: “Let’s play a game. Look at where we are. Won’t you look with me? And tell […]
Tillicum Woodbrook Neighborhood Association to meet March 6
Monday, March 6, at 6:30 p.m. we will meet again at the Tillicum Community Center, 14916 Washington Ave. SW and the featured presentation will be that of the Claudia Thomas Legacy House, a Habitat for Humanity project here in Tillicum. Police, schools, and library will also provide updates of community goings-on. Coming to our April […]
Letter: The End of the Journey
If the sun hadn’t risen, I would not have seen them. If I’d not been so tired, pausing to catch my breath at the end of this early morning run, bent over with hands on my knees, I would not have happened to glance sideways and discover their beauty clinging momentarily to the dried stalks. […]
Tillicum Woodbrook Neighborhood Meetings are back
We’ve not met since March of 2020 but we are excited to announce that Feb. 6, 2023, 6:30 p.m., our Tillicum Woodbrook Neighborhood Meetings will begin with first-Mondays-of-every-month gatherings to discuss neighborhood goings-on! This Feb. 6 meeting will be held at the Tillicum Community Center, 14916 Washington Ave. SW. In the following newsletter, you’ll read […]
Letter: Learning Life’s Lessons
The youngster was out in front, paddling furiously, plowing the otherwise placid surface into a mini frenzy of ripples into which dad, trailing a bit behind, slowly but effortlessly kept pace, while grandpa lagged a bit. Later the little fellow would be taught how to dive, to leap forward in an arc to plunge beneath the […]
Letter: Frosty the Facsimile Snowman
Frosty, our fondly dubbed Fairytale Facsimile (from Latin fac simile, “to make alike”) was not, in fact, “alike” the real thing, but then of course it’s not like the real thing was real either. Still, when the snow falls but there’s not enough, or the snow won’t pack, and yet the grandchildren insist on having […]
Letter: Entering the Forest We’ve Been Taught to Fear
“Our character is not defined by the battles we win or lose, but by the battles we dare to fight.” – Robert Beatty, “Serafina and the Black Cloak,” 2015. At its first meeting of the new year, January 9, 2023, the Board of Directors of the Clover Park School District (CPSD) unanimously approved the motion […]
Letter: Where Dreams Come True
When the tasks for the day are done and I return home, wearily tossing my coat over a chair, I look across the room to where she awaits my reading of another chapter in the novels of Harold Bell Wright. “Set amid the grandeur and the beauty of these vast deserts, lonely skies and wild […]
Letter: Spider-Man Learns A Lesson
Late at night, when happy but weary grandmas and grandpas have completed their Christmas shopping and the little ones visiting are nestled, all snug in their beds, the toys still on the display shelves in the toy sections of stores everywhere come to life. It’s the battle of cultural icons. And Spider-Man has gone rogue. […]