Joseph Boyle

We hear it all the time. “Read with your child.” “Become a volunteer reader at your school to help children learn to read.” “Stamp out illiteracy, by helping adults learn to read.”

I found an interesting warning sign at BROWSEBOUT BOOKS, a bookstore in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, which helps reinforce my point. I have depicted the sign in Photo 1 below.

I always watch for rock solid, money making, innovative product ideas. Because you are my loyal readers, I am going to give you some insider information before the general public has time to catch on. Keep an open mind and remember, I am not a professional engineer.

Computers can be helpful and computers can be less than helpful. How about that auto correct? I find auto correct especially challenging while texting. I have had auto correct not only try to correct my writing, but argue with me causing me to change a word back to what I wanted more than six times.

Being smart, like my wife, who was in the Top Ten of every class she attended: grade school, high school and college, is thought to be most desirable.

Let me hasten to tell you; it is also desirable to possess a low level of intellect. Take me, for example. One of the fun things a low-level intellect guy does for the amusement of smart people is to mess up words like too, to and two; isle and aisle; then and than; youth and “yute"; merry, marry and Mary. I use close, but wrong words all the time. I don’t mean to. It just happens. It would drive me crazy if it were not for the fact that I realize guys like me are needed to make the intelligence comparison possible. Smart people could not look intelligent without low intellects paving the way.

My title is the name of a song, When I Am Gone. Well, I am not gone yet, but I am getting older. One of the fun things about getting older — yes, there are some fun things — is having long term friendships.

In 1975, my daughter, Paige Evers, met a little girl in Judy Drysdale’s Oakbrook Children’s Center pre-school, named Jenny Hammond. They were only 3 years old.

Lakewood City Council, please be careful. An article appeared in the Suburban Times titled, Cottage Housing Code (click the link to see the earlier story).

While I did not feel like I had time to deal with yet another challenge to our community, my 40 plus years experience working around small size, low cost housing as a Real Estate Broker, investor, landlord and property management company owner along with 23 years in law enforcement compelled me to share my thoughts on the cottage zoning issue being voted on by Lakewood City Council on Monday, October 5, 2015.

If you missed Parts I – V including Westside Story – On The Road 75 Years Later – Alternate Ending, click the link if you wish to catch up with the full story.

Yes, it is true. Some gangsters tried to rob and kill me and three of my pals back in 1965 while we were walking on Fullerton Avenue Beach at Lake Michigan in Chicago. Eventually we returned to our home states of New Jersey and Washington; alive I might add. But before we could return home, we were in for some more drama.

Tacoma greed is at full speed.

I recently received notice from the City of Lakewood regarding a Public Hearing to consider a Resolution expressing opposition to the City of Tacoma’s Proposition No. 3. If you are a Tacoma Power customer living in the City of Lakewood, I encourage you to attend the hearing.