My wife had lost four pounds since the week before. “Clinically, you’re doing worse,’ the doctor said. “How aggressive do you want to be in attacking this cancer?” My wife replied, “I don’t want to be sick. It isn’t worth it.” “We’ll find a way forward,” the doctor said. That morning, when we had arrived […]
To Ponder
Beautiful The Carole King Musical – Review
Months and months ago my youngest son’s sister-in-law had just seen the stage production of “Beautiful The Carole King Musical” at the Village Theatre in Issaquah. She recommended the live theatre. However the musical was sold out as was the Seattle area production. When I saw that Tacoma Musical Playhouse was scheduling the live theatre […]
Letter: Public Leaves Lakewood Beach In Sad Shape
Sunday, July 7th was set to be a scorcher with temps in the mid 90’s. I was up early, for a planned open water swim, to avoid the chaos that can ensue at North American Lake Park. As I pulled into the parking lot, I was greeted by badly overflowing trash dumpsters. I was pleasantly […]
Family, Stories and Food. What’s Not to Like?
Don, Lindy (cousin) and I went on a short trip recently. We left our north Tacoma home and drove to Puyallup’s South Hill. We were to meet our cousin Chris Cummins, who used to live in Alaska, growing up with his six or seven or eight brothers and one sister and now lives in Missouri. […]
Letter: Only Two
“The first tree-lined mile is easy and beautiful, however….” So begins the description of the Lover’s Lane Loop, a 5.8 mile hike to Sol Doc Falls and back in the Olympic National Park. And so begins married life as well. Easy. Beautiful. In love. However. “However, as you proceed upstream the trail gets steeper and […]
The Wonderful “Cabaret” in Olympia Review
The new Cabaret Theatre at Harlequin was amazing. What a treat. The musicians were in a curved balcony above the stage and did an incredible job. We loved the pineapple shaped stage lights that gave off just enough yellow glow to set the mood. The emcee is played by Adam Rennie. Adam joined us from […]
Letter: Sustained
Whether in a court of law where a judge sustains an objection; or in a rowing shell where the sculler sustains a collision; or your wife of 50 years who has always sustained you but is no longer there waiting for you to return – sustained means “to carry on.” When your dreams have been […]
Letter: “Tenzler” Lakewood Library
What is the proper way to show thanks for a family’s philanthropy? In my opinion it is by maintaining the gift and showing the grantor some gratitude. This was not done with the “Tenzler” Lakewood Library structure, and now not even the property is being maintained. With overgrown grass this property has become a blemish […]
Let’s Talk! – Leave the Trenches
What a prompt for pondering and discussion from my friend Tyrean Martinson’s book – Pocket Sized Jumble Writing 500 Prompts – this time, right? A lot of us know trenches only from books or from the movies – and thank goodness for that! My Master’s thesis in Literary Science was about WW I literature by […]