Cyndie Fajardo (pronounced faa har doe) is running for Pierce County Sheriff. There are many reasons to vote for Lieutenant Fajardo. Reason #1 to vote Fajardo for Sheriff is because of Lieutenant Fajardo’s and her family’s long involvement with LAW ENFORCEMENT and PUBLIC SERVICE, dating back to 1886. Reason #2 to vote Fajardo for Sheriff […]
To Ponder
Boyle’s Double Take – Childhood Summers
Renown Lakewood author, Susanne Bacon, has done it again. She suggested for our July 2020, edition of Double Take we start with two words, Childhood Summers. With having only two words, Childhood Summers, to work with, I harnessed my free-wheeling creative mind and came up with what follows. In the summer of 1944, I began […]
Bacon’s Double Take – Childhood Summers
It’s summer, finally, after a spring that somehow felt cooler and wetter than in other years. Stranger, too, due to pandemic circumstances. Summer. It used to be a magic word to me, especially as a child. Looking back, it felt like an additional piece of freedom. Maybe it was. It usually was connected to my […]
Social Media Pandemic Marketing is Booming in Tacoma Lakewood Gig Harbor and Seattle
Business doesn’t need to panic. The first of the month for my wife and me means statistics and invoices. I compile the statistics and Peg creates and emails the invoices for the previous month. At the start of the slow downs and closures of businesses, I was worried for both our business and the businesses […]
Westside Story – Face Masks
Reader Warning: If you are hungry for highly intellectual reading material, do not – I repeat, do not read – this Westside Story. Reader Comprehension Challenge: Can you spot the life-saving message(s) ensconced inside this whimsy laced Westside Story? Our fearless leader in Olympia has mandated we wear face masks if we are among the […]
Boiled Peanuts – The Caviar of the South
You never know what you’ll find at the Dollar Tree. I’ve scored on Bellina’s Gourmet Red Sweet Pepper Strips from Peru, Sweet & Spicy Juanita Piquante Peppers from South Africa, La Limonera Lime Juice Substitute from Mexico, Galen Sun Dried Tomato Halves from Turkey, and Beach Cliff Sardines from Poland. A month ago I bought […]
Westside Story – Fajardo For Sheriff Reason #8
Cyndie Fajardo (pronounced faa har doe) is running for Pierce County Sheriff. There are many reasons to vote for Lieutenant Fajardo. Reason #1 to vote Fajardo for Sheriff is because of Lieutenant Fajardo’s and her family’s long involvement with LAW ENFORCEMENT and PUBLIC SERVICE, dating back to 1886. Reason #2 to vote Fajardo for Sheriff […]
Letter: Independence Day – Pull your weight, sign your name
Early morning before the sun is even awake and not a breath of a breeze bestirs the blackness of the water, little red blinking bow lights wink through the darkness, the whooshing throb of matched oars and creaking oarlocks the only whisper that an amphibious monster has passed. Now a sport, crew once won independence. […]
Across the Fence: In(ter)dependence
Fourth of July – what a memorable day! The United States celebrate their independence from the British crown. No taxation without representation. The Boston Tea Party, which wasn’t a party at all, set off the revolution against the British on December 16, 1773 and turned the trend in American beverages to coffee. No kidding. The […]