Submitted by Susanne Bacon. Have you ever thought over how much your reading shapes your mindset, but how it also is defined by what nation you belong to? Obviously, most people’s first books will be in their mother tongue. Mine weren’t. And my favorite was an American one, “One Morning in Maine”.
To Ponder
Swallowing Spiders
Submitted by Don Doman. It’s a fact: Americans swallow eight spiders each year. They enter your mouth while you sleep. Last week there was a dead spider in the water glass I keep by my bed. When some of my friends send me outrageous claims about almost anything, I search on Snopes for the truth. […]
Westside Story – Ok, Ok, I Talk Too Much
By Joe Boyle. For my entire life, I have lived with an internal debate regarding whether I am an exciting personality and fun to talk with, including a propensity for telling fascinating stories, or if I am a bore because I talk too much.
Friendly Towns, Wild Animals, and Tame Friends
Submitted by Don Doman. I stepped outside to pick up the morning papers. It was gray and cool. No cooing doves welcomed me, no bunny sitting in the grass and watching for movement down the hill. Perhaps, everyone was sleeping in this morning. There weren’t even tiny ants crawling on the steps . . . […]
Westside Story – Voter Test
Submitted by Joe Boyle. For a number reasons, I am hesitant to advise you on who to vote for in any of our upcoming political races, including the race for Pierce County Prosecutor. I am not reluctant to share several voting tips with you to help make your voting process more meaningful.
Westside Story – Joe Boyle Declared Missing
Submitted by Joe Boyle. READER COURTESY NOTE: If you have at least an 8th-grade education, it should take you 1 minute and 28 seconds to read today’s, Westside Story. Readers from all over the United States have asked a prominent burning question. What happened to Joe Boyle? We have not read any Westside Story articles […]
Letter: My wife is ‘unremarkable’
Submitted by David Anderson. The head of the Oncology department was reviewing on the big screen monitor the positron emission tomography (PET Scan) image results taken of my wife from nearly head to toe.
Cyrano de Bergerac – Poetry, Puns and Performances
Submitted by Don Doman. The highest-grossing film of 1965 was The Sound of Music starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. At that time most people said, “Christopher who?” Not me, however. Somewhere in my studio I have a reel to reel audio tape that is an absolute treasure. During my Junior year at Clover Park […]
Letter: Will Ultra-high-speed trains come through Tillicum?
Submitted by David Anderson. “Likely not.” So says a report by the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) in conjunction with the release today, July 26, 2018 of the state agencies announcement that 250-mph (minimum) trains – and the corridors they might run on – are being studied.