“A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don’t find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.” James M. Barrie When I was attending Hudtloff Junior High School my parents bought […]
Tolls on downtown streets?
On April 3rd, Mayor Jenny Durkan announced that Seattle will develop a plan to toll city roadways as part of its efforts to reduce traffic congestion and greenhouse-gas emissions. The Seattle Times used the comment and information as a front-page story. I had just finished a white paper for a history project about the changes […]
Raining On My Parade
In my senior year at Clover Park High School it rained so hard during the Daffodil Parade in downtown Tacoma, our band was told we wouldn’t be marching. My buddies and I took our leader’s word for it, put away our instruments, and wandered through the crowds. We were taken by surprise when we heard […]
Moctezuma’s Mexican Restaurant Tacoma – Restaurant Review
We hadn’t been to Moctezuma’s in years, but we were taking Peg’s sister and her boyfriend out for Easter dinner and we knew they loved Moctezuma’s. Back in the 1980s when we were producing Video Realty on local cable, Moctezuma’s was one of our first advertisers. We’ve long felt a kinship for them . . […]
Indo Asian Street Eatery – Restaurant Review
Indo Asian Street Eatery wants to provide the feeling of eating Asian street foods. The mission is simple: serve delicious, affordable food that guests will want to return to week after week. The website says the restaurant is the perfect place to experience fine Southeast Asian dining. . . but they also want to take […]
Bewildering and Beguiling – A Peter Review
“Peter and the Starcatcher” could have been retitled, “War of the Words.” You have to admire a script that mentions Genghis Kahn, Caesar, Napoleon and Ayn Rand in the same twenty word line. There are puns, jokes, “in” jokes, “out” jokes and perhaps even “in-between” jokes. Sometimes the plays on words are flying about so […]
Male Circumcision – Yes or No?
Outside of religion, what is the need for male circumcision? Female circumcision is too big an issue for me to take on currently. I got the news late but here it is: Genital Integrity Awareness Week 2018 takes place March 28-April 3! Perhaps, we should celebrate. How wide spread is male circumcision (the removal of […]
Sapporo Steakhouse – Restaurant Review
I knew the Sapporo Steakhouse was opening up, but I didn’t plan on eating there on their first day of operation. It just turned out that way. The Japanese Sushi & Hibachi restaurant has a few things to improve, but they have a good start. Sapporo is located in the Green Firs Shopping Center in […]
What does hacked really mean?
Written by Peg Doman I had a notice from a bank that our application for a Victoria’s Secret credit card has been denied. Denied? We’d never applied for one! The statement said that Experian had supplied the information. So, I wrote a letter (you can’t call them to ask WTH), made three copies of the […]