Can you imagine breast feeding children until they are four or five years old? In times before farming, humans lived a nomadic life. Baby teeth have a hard time chewing roots, berries and available meat, so pre-neolithic mothers breast fed their children for years. Hunting and gathering kept people on the move. About 12,000 years […]
To Ponder
Found Money at Holiday Time A Short Story
It was a good week for my little sister. She celebrated the twentieth anniversary of her divorce. He was not a good provider and relied on drugs to make it through each day. We were all happy when the divorce was final. He has never helped with finances. Sis in an independent woman. She has […]
Home from Home: Rivers
Have you ever enjoyed a river cruise? Or any kind of boating trip on a river? On a riverboat? Tell me I’m wrong, but here in Western Washington the only navigable river as in riverboats and freight ships is the Columbia river. The rest of them are barely useable for even small watercraft. It was […]
A Cross Between a Limo and a Sports Car
I used to cruise South Tacoma Way and its used car lots. I would buy cars like shoes. One day I saw this sharp looking silver car. It was only two years old, drove like a dream, had a great price and low miles. I had never heard of the make or model, which is […]
Letter: Human Wreckage
What I thought I saw I hoped I didn’t see but as it turned out it was what I feared the most. I was first to see it.
Thanksgiving Comes More Than Once A Year
Diane and Steve Kienholz of Puyallup, Washington were asked by their church — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — to drive a box truck with supplies to help victims, and they didn’t hesitate to step up and serve. Their church flew them to Nashville and they drove from there to Alabama, Florida, […]
Letter: The greatest gift
The list of the 21 must-have, shiny new gadget gifts for Christmas sure to sell out this coming infamous Black Friday, does not include the greatest gift of all.
Cute and Agile from Famous Bloodlines or Oilines
I was searching on Google for an image of the Elvis RV from the movie Cars. Instead what I found was a cute little off the road vehicle called the Ferves Ranger. At first I thought it was similar to the Amphicar, which I first saw on TV or in Popular Mechanics in the early […]
Letter: ‘Did I call on you?’
Our granddaughter is in kindergarten. Before she entered those hallowed halls of higher learning – though the color of the tiles has changed they’re still the same halls down which I walked, and it’s still the very same classroom where I sat over 60 years ago where she now sits – I jokingly reminded her […]