To Ponder

Today’s news brings sad news. A loyal 50-year resident of the City of Lakewood, Joe Boyle, who had been recruited by a popular landslide proportion of Lakewood’s citizenry to run for the upcoming seat being vacated by the Honorable and dedicated Lakewood City Councilwoman, Marie Barth, has announced this afternoon he is dropping out of […]

NOTE TO READERS: All names printed in this story have been changed to protect the innocent and the guilty. I say innocent and guilty because, well based on the news; you never know. I am confident my kids, who are woven into my story, are in the innocent group because neither of them has done […]

Depending on your age snow can be fun or frustrating. Age 2-17 + snow + shovel = fun Age 18 & up + snow + shovel = frustration EXAMPLE #A: Kids 2 – 17, parents, and grandparents dig in the snow with their shovels to create an igloo snow tunnel. They had fun. Can you […]

During our recent anomalistic** winter weather storm a new question came to my mind. When is a sundial no longer a sundial? This is the kind of problem a guy can wrestle with when he is unemployed with no visible means of support. Answer: A sundial is no longer a sundial when… the sun sets […]

Every time it snows I am compelled to take a photo and write about Uncle Melvin’s bicycle. Uncle Melvin, who is actually my wife’s uncle, was born in Tacoma in 1925. In those days kids were born right in the family home. Uncle Melvin’s birth home was in the Norwegian section of what was known […]

In the vast majority of my 500 or so articles, the ideas for each and every story came to me on my own. I am blessed with a creative and active mind that has become more creative and observational as I finished 75 years of life experience. My mind is always observing, and working on […]