Somewhere down there, shuttling passengers to and from the airport in New Orleans, is a taxicab driver by the name of Jean Duval. I thought of him last evening as I looked out the window of the airplane carrying me back to Seattle following the conclusion of the National School Board Association annual conference. The […]
To Ponder
Incorruptible, a Dark Comedy About the Dark Ages
Incorruptible is a cross between Brother Cadfael and Cyndi Lauper – we step back in time about 1500 years to find out that Money Changes Everything. We see Europe ages ago and we ask the question, are we really any different. Incorruptible plays through April 21 at Lakewood Playhouse. The Middle Ages is the second […]
Letter: One Way Works for Transportation, But Not for Communication
Outside the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center there is an amalgamation of signs warning that this street is one way only. Stop. Do Not Enter. One Way. I had just come from a presentation by Keynote Speaker Dr. Timothy Shriver, Chairman of Special Olympics, Co-founder and CEO of UNITE, and Co-creator of The […]
Manuel and the Kid
Manuel pulled his truck up behind his workers who were taking a break. The crew was laughing at the antics of the Boss of the crew. The Boss was acting out a story he had just read about a salesman who spilled oil all over his sales suit, buying the only suit he could afford, […]
Letter: Hide and Found
When my granddaughter was three years old, she and I sometimes played hide and seek. This is what would happen. I would say “…9…10! Read or not here I come!” And when I would then call out her name, followed by asking where she was, she would immediately respond, “I’m under the table!” The game […]
All Terrain Vehicles and a Smile
I looked up and smiled at Molly as she came towards our counter. We, well me anyway, had sold her a nice, used, standard ATV about two months before. She only wanted to talk with a girl or woman about ATVs. She had been hoodwinked by others (men) who sold her or tried to sell […]
Letter: Learning, and Love, Eclipsed
No, the line on the map is not the “lucky strip of the US that will be within view of the total solar eclipse this April 8.” Rather the line on the map is my flight to New Orleans for a conference I am attending this same weekend as “the great American eclipse,” a conference […]
The Sad Lady
It was a beautiful day in the South Sound and I was slightly irritated. I had been called in to replace another waitress. As soon as I put my phone near my face I realized I had made a mistake, but what are you going to do? I couldn’t pretend to be someone else, I […]
Let’s Talk! – To Waken this Long-Cherished Morn (Tonna)
The more I learn the less, I realize, I know. Today’s prompt from Tyrean Martinson’s book is another such case. I had never heard the line before nor had I heard of English Victorian writer Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna. You might like to read up on this brilliant woman who was before her times in so […]