To Ponder

“Style and Grace” is now available from Lorna. She grew up with ideas, but things weren’t looking too good for her a couple of years ago on Tacoma’s Martin Luther King Jr Way, but with all the new high rises in almost every block in what used to be K Street and its surroundings, more […]

Joan was an independent young woman. She liked to go shopping early at her favorite grocery store. They had fish at decent prices, well “decent” when they had been offered for sale at a great price when various pieces of fish were reduced in price for quicker sales. She had been sold on nice looking […]

Submitted by Karen Fleur Tofti-Tufarelli and Mignonne Peterson. The City of Tacoma plans to close the Beacon and Lighthouse senior centers, hoping that seniors who rely on those centers will somehow seamlessly make the transition to a Metro Parks facility. While Metro Parks does a good job with its programs, Lighthouse and Beacon are long-standing […]

I met Maybell a short time after my mother died. They were friends and had worked together in the St. Vinnie’s Thrift Store for years. Maybelle also had a great sense of concern for others and was always ready to lend a hand. She had kind of a southern drawl, but I think perhaps she […]

Ruadhan is an Irish boy’s name that means “little red-haired one”. It is a diminutive of the Irish word Ruadh, which means “red”. Ruadhan is sometimes anglicized as Rowan. This name means “red-haired king,” as in the red colored hair of foxes today in Clan Dálaigh, County Donegal. At one point in his life, Jack, […]

I’ve known Jefferson Brown for ages. Sometimes people remain in your memory for years. Jefferson was one of those people who only act tough when they are needed. He was part black, part white, and part Chinese with perhaps something even more in his heritage. I met him when he was painting a house with […]