Can you imagine a buying a raffle ticket where the prize is just an old rusty rivet? But wait! There’s more! I knew nothing about TACID, Tacoma Area Coalition of Individuals with Disabilities, when my friend Chuck Hellar asked me to join their Board of Directors. From the sparkle in his eye I was interested, […]
The Pacific Ballroom Dance Entertainment and Trivia Contest
“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass…It’s about learning to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene “Life is the dancer and you are the dance.” – Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose “Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, […]
Affordable Weedwackers for Your Home and Garden
I could have purchased a bright and shiny Homelite 13 inch weedwacker for $79.00 plus tax. What I found on my neighbor’s parking strip was the same product, but dirty. There was no tax and no fee. It used to be that weedwackers were designed to have their weedwacking plastic lines replaceable only by their […]
Root Beer. Ginger Beer, and Bundaberg . . .
As a teenager living in Ponders Corner I delivered the Tacoma News Tribune on Saturdays for a friend who attended church on Saturday. My parents owned the LaCasa Motel in Ponders Corner. I delivered the newspapers from Ponders Corner to Bridgeport Way and onto McChord Field. I rewarded myself with a nickle Coke from a […]
Significant Other at Tacoma Little Theatre – Review
The first thing I do when I hear about a production we’ll be reviewing, is to get a feeling for the production by checking out other reviews, which is what I did with Significant Other by Joshua Harmon. I found reviews from the original Broadway run. The reviews made the play sound hilarious; it was […]
Titanic The Musical – Tacoma Musical Playhouse Review
Review by Don and Peg Doman, and Lavinia Hart. For nearly the whole week before going to Tacoma Musical Playhouse to watch Titanic The Musical, I found myself singing. I knew no old songs nor original songs from the Broadway show, but the folk and children’s song “The Titanic” kept popping up in my brain. […]
Far Away Places – Mastodons in Sequim
I have fond memories of Sequim, Washington. In our younger days, Peg and I were members of the Jaycees (Junior Chamber of Commerce). Tacoma was in Region III which ran from the Maple Valley through Federal Way, Puyallup, Tacoma and Lakewood area and then onto the peninsula out to Sequim and Port Angeles. Sequim is […]
Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye – Excellent Storyline and Fun – Review
I had gone to bed early, wanting to get some sleep. Sleep didn’t come early, but as the clock approached ten, I was almost ready to get up and go back to my computer where I had work to do. I gave it one more chance and flipped through the channels and choices until one […]
Building Madness – Professional World Premiere in Olympia
We were wowed before the comedy even began. One look at the set told us we were in for a great experience. The set looked like an authentic office from the 1930s. The long-time ticket holder I sat next to pointed out that the mechanical device on the secretary’s desk was an ancient Dictaphone from […]