I have two favorite memories of the Seattle Sonics. When they were playing at the King Dome, they offered a Seattle Sonics Cable Channel. My wife Peggy and I had traveled to Seattle by chartered bus with a keg and friends before, but thought it might be easier to simply sign up for the Sonic […]
The Joy of Despair – Edgar Allen Poe
Books. My wife Peg and I love books. Books are mere beyond entertainment. Books contain ideas and dreams . . . and invariably the relationships of people to their surroundings and possibilities. As a teenager in the late fifties, my parents owned a motel in Ponder’s Corner. It was a family-run business, so I always […]
The Blue Boy, Christ in Gethsemane, and Birch Trees
Several years ago I was attending a meeting of my Rotary Club of Tacoma #8. I was wearing blue jeans, a blue shirt, and a blue sweater. My friend Jim Harris looked at me and said, “The Blue Boy, I presume?” I laughed and wondered out loud how many people today would even know the […]
Exhibit: Sketching Tacoma and Beyond
By Peg Doman. Tacoma Urban Sketchers are mounting their second exhibit this year at the Foss Waterway Seaport from October 16 through January 7, 2019. The theme of Sketching Tacoma and Beyond means that there will be pieces showing local waterways, other Tacoma sites and sites from around the region. Meet the artists at a […]
Article Comments Are a Nice Social Media Element
With articles in the Suburban Times, the articles are an open door for discussion . . . with a simple “comment” they become social media. If you read a article in the Seattle Times or The News Tribune, all you get is the story, although some readers react with a letter to the editor, it’s […]
2018 TACID Fundraising Luncheon
I’ve been off the board at TACID for a number of years now, but I like to see how they are doing. The brown bag luncheon offers me that opportunity. Since Nola Renz has become executive director, the annual fundraiser has been held at the Boys & Girls Club facility on the ground of the […]
Puget Sound Honor Flights
My father spent World War II on a tanker in the South Pacific. Like most men and women who served in the military service during the war, he talked sparingly about what he did. Twice he stood watching torpedoes rushing towards his ship. If he were alive today, I would make it possible for him […]
Shooting Stars Against All Odds
Growing near our front step is a small grouping of flowers. They shouldn’t be there. They weren’t planted. They rarely get sun; our roof stops most of the rain from watering them; the morning newspaper frequently scores a direct hit on their bed . . . and yet they grow. I think they represent life […]
The Times They Are A-Changin
A man and a woman are walking down the middle of a snow covered city street. She has her head on his shoulder and is looking directly at the camera . . . smiling. She is wearing a knee length winter coat and black leather boots. His eyes are averted and is looking down at […]