When you leave home for a destination vacation, the destination doesn’t really matter that much. Once you’re out the door, you’re having an adventure. We’ve left our north end Tacoma home before and gone to north end B&Bs and had a great time. Earlier in June we left our home and traveled to Lakewood. We […]
To Ponder
Letter: A Father's Influence – answering my critics
Among the many examples my dad set for my life – he loved our country (served in the 10th Mountain Division in WWII); he loved my mom (58 years married); he loved our community (instrumental in obtaining the playground equipment) – and the roles my dad played in my life – baseball coach, Soap Box […]
Looking Back at Lakewood
I recently had an opportunity to take a nostalgic trip to Lakewood. My wife and I booked a room at the Best Western in lovely downtown Lakewood. I traced some of my footsteps and visited places of my youth. My earliest memories are from Tacoma. My parents would come home shortly after five in the […]
Letter: A quiver full
It’s a great comfort – as much as can be had given the circumstances anyway, those circumstances being conflict – to have, going into battle, your quiver full of arrows. I do. My quiver is full. Of grown children who likewise have children and who work with children and who are instilling in them the […]
Letter: No Amtrak trains until all safety steps are taken
That’s the position of the Lakewood City Council in a resolution (pp.305-318) supporting the safety recommendations approved by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on May 21, 2019. Noble, but inadequate. Even with the replacement “as soon as possible” of current passenger conveyances with more substantially built rail cars, somehow the recommendation to “secure potential […]
Saint Vincent de Paul Vintage Auction Success
What you want to see at a fundraising event is happy people having fun. At the St Vinnies auction that is exactly what we saw. Executive Director Tracy Peacock was everywhere welcoming friends and other guests and making them all feel welcome. My wife, Peg recalls as a child hearing her mother Rita on the […]
Across the Fence: Tiny Sound Islands
When it’s getting warmer, my husband and I sometimes set out in our little boat to explore. And what’s better to explore than places you usually cannot reach on foot or by car?! Because they are so very small and out of the way. Our South Puget Sound tiny islands. One of these islands you […]
Westside Story – No Tacos
In the news was, as considered by one Lousiana resident, a horrifying travesty of justice. A Taco Bell in Slidell, Louisiana ran out of Tacos. So, a man called 911 for police action. I wonder if the new wave for police policy change by the State of California will impact on how police officers respond […]
Bye Bye Birdie Hello Laughter – CenterStage Review
The storyline of Bye Bye Birdie is a parody of real-life gyrating super star Elvis Presley being drafted into the army at a time when rock and roll was fast changing the world of music. Angela Bayler (Managing Director) and Trista Duval (Artistic Director) welcomed the Sunday afternoon crowd to Bye Bye Birdie. They were […]