To Ponder

I first found out about “the” fact checking website on the internet years ago. Friends would send me politically charged stories that just seemed too good to be true. They almost always turned out to be as I had figured: made-up stories with perhaps some element of truth and the rest wishes and perhaps a […]

“Do you have any Twains?” As a child in the 1950s I played cards. My neighbors David and Kathleen Biddison taught me poker. My grandmother, Mary Cummins taught me Pitch and Canasta. Poker speaks for itself, but Pitch, Canasta, and Authors are relatively unheard of in American families these days. Pitch uses a standard 52-card […]

I just read an interesting article that suggests that dollar stores feed more people than Whole Foods. Here in Pierce County my favorite “go to” dollar store is Dollar Tree. I tell everyone that Dollar Tree can help build affordable emergency and earthquake survival kits – communitydonations.org/Affordable-Survival-Kit.html There are Dollar Tree stores in almost every […]

Peg and I have picked up teriyaki for take out several times from Bonsai Teriyaki in Tacoma’s Westgate area of North Pearl. My buddy Jim stopped over to pick me up for our monthly lunch and chat. Jim drives and I choose the restaurant. I had just read Sue Kidd’s review of Saki Sushi & […]

Did you know that Tacoma is home to the 5th largest Immigration Detention Center in the U.S.? Though the U.S. shares the longest international border in the world with Canada, just a few miles from us, it is the border to the south with Mexico that is one of today’s major issues. How is it […]

At the end of November a secret Santa paid off dozens of Walmart layaway tabs in New York. In May someone paid off $10,000 in school lunch debts in Maine. In 2014 an anonymous benefactor paid off everyone’s layaway accounts ($24,000) at a Toys R Us outlet. These benefactors aren’t Bill or Melinda Gates. You […]