Heidi Schreck’s boundary – breaking play breathes new life into our Constitution and imagines how it will shape the next generation of Americans. Fifteen-year-old Heidi earned her college tuition by winning constitutional debate competitions across the United States years ago. In this hilarious, hopeful and human new play, she resurrects her teenage self to trace […]
To Ponder
Letter: ‘Through Together’ – Such Beautiful Words
As love stories go, what matters most is not so much how the two met but that they became inseparable. It could have been that first sight of the other across a crowded room and the ensuing bashful invitation to go out somewhere, anywhere, but then, should a romance commence, from henceforth and forever, together […]
Monique Dubose
When I was president of the Tacoma Jaycees in the early 1970s. We sponsored Big Brothers. At Christmas time, K Mart on Sixth Avenue opened up a half-hour early just for us. We gave each young boy we sponsored a five dollar bill from their Big Brothers and those of us who volunteered to watch […]
Letter: Just Like That
She opened the email from the school district to read the notice that her order for his high school graduation cap and gown had been confirmed. It wasn’t even Christmas, not even Thanksgiving, let alone June, a whole eight months off. A long ways off. And just like that tears welled up in her eyes […]
Tacoma Area Coalition of Individuals with Disabilities (TACID)
For a couple of years my friend Chuck Heller, a fellow member of the Rotary Club of Tacoma kept asking me to join him with the efforts to support the organization of TACID. It looked like it was an interesting group, a number of Rotary members were involved, but they met at the same time […]
Letter: How Many ‘e’s Are In Tennessee?
She calls them mountains; he calls them hills. She is “five-foot-and-a-bit” and he is a ‘sight’ taller necessitating she stand on an overturned bucket. She’s been all over the country; he doesn’t know where Tennessee is, let alone how to spell it. Hence the puzzle she sent which his granddaughter put together while he watched […]
Wright Park – A Haven in Any Kind of Weather
Wright Park is a wonderful place to spend time in the downtown area of Tacoma. It doesn’t matter what the weather is – there is always something to see. The 27-acre Park has so much to offer the visitor. There are more than 600 native and exotic trees in the park, some of whom change […]
Gramps On Cue
As the weather changed and his grandson and his grandson’s buddies stopped playing baseball, Gramps decided to take more interest in the latest happenings of life around him. He started taking walks. He enjoyed the weather no matter what and the houses, but soon he lost interest. He rarely saw people and when he did […]
Letter: When You Wish for Love
I almost stepped on them. Exiting my truck, having parked at the curb, I gathered up my computer, checked again to be sure my keys were in my pocket, I locked up and turned to head toward the coffee shop across the street. But right there, at my feet, in the grass median between the […]