Ticket holders for the Olympia production were treated to a set of four carolers dressed in costumes from 1843, the year A Christmas Carol was written. Peg and I had seats in different rows. By the time the Carolers finished singing it looked like every seat in the house was taken. For Terry Edward Moore […]
About Don and Peg Doman
Getting with the Program – Entertaining Local Speakers
I love meetings at groups like Rotary and Transportation Club. I love to arrive early and chat with anyone who sits down at the table. How else can you really learn much about people? Eventually, the meeting leads to an interesting program. When I was president of the Rotary Club of Tacoma #8, I had […]
Damning Disgusting Evidence
I grew up with Mary Anne. I knew her forwards and backwards. I never heard her say a mean word to anyone and in our neighborhood there were lots of mean words describing almost everyone from blocks around. I also knew she didn’t lie. I heard her father beating her one evening when he didn’t […]
Little Girl Lost
If you are a parent and have young children around, you know how easy it is for a small child to wander away and disappear from sight. Sometimes it’s for minutes or hours depending of a number of things. My wife and I experienced the pain of loss several years ago. Our daughter, Judith, then […]
An Oklahoma Dream
I was tired and felt out of place. Just the night before I had been sipping a bottle of beer and talking about Native Americans. I was trying like the devil to remember where my grandmother had been born – someplace in Oklahoma was basically all I knew. A tall American Indian named Sidney sat […]
A Grandmother Cries over a Broken Heart
I met Phyllis at a coffee shop. She was crying. I could have just ignored her or I could have turned around and walked away like most people. Instead, I sat down at her table and said, “Tough day?”. She looked at me and tried to shrug off the need to have a stranger care […]
Searching for the Perfect Singer
Carlos was irritated. Traffic was bad and he was running late. He was driving up from Los Angeles. In reality, being hundreds of miles away, there was nothing he could really do about it. To be truthful he already felt like a target of stupidity as far as the Seattle night club was concerned. He […]
Rodney – The Wind and The Snow
Rodney, or “Hot Rod of the Slopes” as he was sometimes known as, was eager for the snow to come to western Washington. It was his time to shine. He was no longer “the” king of the slopes from the University of Washington, but there were many people, both women and men who wanted to […]
Beauty and the Beast- A Great Christmas Treasure – Currently Running
This is the type of show we love and CenterStage is the best choice for the production. Every year Peg and I can hardly wait for CenterStage and their yearly “panto.” “Pantomime, also known as “panto”, is a type of musical comedy stage production designed for family entertainment. . . Pantomimes take traditional stories and […]