Po Boy Tango is the story of Richie Po, an immigrant from Taiwan. His TV cook mother, still in Taiwan, has died and he wants to honor her with a traditional Chinese Great Feast. A decade ago, Gloria had been hired to help care for Richie’s cancer-stricken daughter, Emma, and nurtured both of them throughout […]
To Ponder
Letter: Clover Park School District (CPSD) Academic Performance – Your Right to Know
Submitted by John Arbeeny. On 9 January 2023 I gave a six-minute presentation to the School Board which followed the outline of my article in The Suburban Times on 21 December 2022 entitled CPSD Inside Schools November 2022 issue. What’s missing? Academics. I pointed out that out of 8 full pages of glowing endorsements for […]
Letter: Government Neglect/Waste (Tacoma Fire Department)
I have written before about governmental agencies being poor stewards of our tax dollars. Here is continued example on this very topic. Over 7 years ago, when I still lived in Tacoma, I wrote a Letter to the Editor of the Tribune, about a historic building owned by Tacoma Fire Dept. Along with the letter, […]
Once On This Island – Tacoma Musical Playhouse Review
The island is Haiti. I love this quote about Haiti, which fits for most of the world, but perhaps Haiti the most: “Gods always behave like the people who make them.” – Zora Neale Hurston, Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica Many musical theatre goers may not have heard of Once […]
Letter: Frosty the Facsimile Snowman
Frosty, our fondly dubbed Fairytale Facsimile (from Latin fac simile, “to make alike”) was not, in fact, “alike” the real thing, but then of course it’s not like the real thing was real either. Still, when the snow falls but there’s not enough, or the snow won’t pack, and yet the grandchildren insist on having […]
Letter: Entering the Forest We’ve Been Taught to Fear
“Our character is not defined by the battles we win or lose, but by the battles we dare to fight.” – Robert Beatty, “Serafina and the Black Cloak,” 2015. At its first meeting of the new year, January 9, 2023, the Board of Directors of the Clover Park School District (CPSD) unanimously approved the motion […]
The Village Barbershop – a Nice Film About Caring
“A fading smalltime barber is forced to hire the last person on earth he’d want working in his shop – a woman.” Director: Chris J. Ford Writer: Chris J. Ford Staring: John Ratzenberger, Shelly Cole, and Cindy Pickett I watched this film in bed by myself, while my wife, Peggy read a book in the […]
Doctor Weirdo Five Minute Mystery Episode 26 – Threats in the Side Pocket?
Rose and I had a feeling that Jack would be stopping by soon, but we were surprised when he quietly walked into our kitchen without wrenching a couple rings on our mechanical doorbell. Both Rose and I did a head turning double take. Rose asked, “Are you okay?” Jack responded with a shrug of his […]
Where would we be without Duct Tape?
“The military called the waterproof, cloth-backed, green tape 100-mile-per-hour tape because they could use it to fix anything, from fenders on jeeps to boots.” — Margaret Gurowitz, Chief Historian, Johnson & Johnson “The iconic tape was invented by an Illinois mom named Vesta Stoudt who wanted to save soldiers’ lives in World War II. The […]