Peg and I were on our way to the Tacoma Little Theatre to see the final dress rehearsal of A Chorus Line. On the road we started discussing where to have dinner. We had already decided on Joeseppi’s, but we were running a little late. I reminded Peg that this was Thursday night, Prime Rib […]
To Ponder
A Return to the Lobster Shop – Restaurant Review
Although it was still quite chilly, I was surprised to see clover blossoms instead of frost covering the lawn just around a tiny inlet next to The Lobster Shop along Ruston Way. Who couldn’t fall in love with the site of our port area beneath the blue cascade foothills and possible storm clouds floating their […]
Across the Fence: Seasoned with Love
Sometimes Life’s challenges create bends in the road which turn out to lead into the most promising directions. The other day at the Puyallup Sportsman Show, I ran into Misty Loreen from Federal Way, her husband of 16 years, Nathan, and a beautiful story about how something that almost kills you can be on the […]
Auction for Emergency Assistance – St. Vinnie's Beyond Vintage 2020
Are you afraid to answer the door or the phone? Afraid you might be turned out? Feeling all alone? Is the struggle to meet basic needs tearing you apart? Or do you know someone who is being pushed to the brink? If so, then please pass along the information in this article. You are not […]
Foley's On the Green – Restaurant Review – Lakewood
I drove to Jan and Mike’s home on Sunday morning. As I rounded the corner to their place, I caught a glimpse of the Narrows Bridge shrouded in clouds. I parked by Jan’s driveway and walked along the side of the house until I could frame the shot I wanted. Blue is a cool color […]
Letter: Ten little piggies went home
We captured the historic moment on video. Her little legs at first refused to move, her feet as it were locked in concrete. She hesitated, uncertain what next was required. She was standing. On her own. How did she get here anyway? No coffee table nearby. No couch, or chair she’d often worked herself along. No box of […]
Gourmet Burger Shop Gig Harbor – Restaurant Review
My buddy Rob and his brother Paige helped me move a truck load of office dividers from Port Orchard to my home office in Tacoma. We did men’s work and deserved a break after loading, hauling, and carrying cubical panels. Well . . . okay, so it was only three dividers, but we were hungry. […]
Letter: Like buried treasure inspires the imagination, so life-stories told by fathers and mothers inspire courage and conviction
We had just finished reading “Blackbeard’s Ghost” to our ‘little pirates’ so off they went, child’s yellow beach shovel in one hand and blue bucket in the other, to search for the ‘x’ etched in the soil left eons ago by this nefarious ne’re-do-well. They found it too, the ‘x’ and the treasure buried beneath […]
The Wolves – Lakewood Playhouse Play Review
The Wolves is a play about fear and anxiety by playwright Sarah DeLappe. What better target is there for angst than teenagers in general and teenage girls in particular? The play premiered Off-Broadway in 2016. Wolves was a 2017 Pulitzer Prize Drama finalist. The play opens with a girls soccer team, The Wolves, stretching and […]