Until I came to the United States, I never had a garden. This is not unusual at all. In comparison to this nation, my mother country, Germany, is tiny, and its almost 90 million inhabitants literally live on top of each other in many places. I grew up in apartment houses. Later I rented apartments […]
To Ponder
A Checked Past – Room for All
If you’ve never seen a Checker automobile, you’ve missed an American icon. Checker Motors Corporation in Kalamazoo, manufactured taxicabs used by Checker Taxi (the same company really. They stopped producing automobiles in 1982. During many years of production Checker would sell cars for personal use on special order, but the taxi cab was their main […]
Aunt Raini, Pacific Lutheran University & the Responsibility of Art
“Aunt Raini” has been playing at Jewish Theaters across the U.S. There are two different versions of the script. One production company combined the two, unsuccessfully. At Pacific Lutheran University Tom Smith recently had the West Coast debut of the play. Smith, play wright, director, Associate Professor, and Artistic Director of Theatre at P.L.U. used […]
Westside Story – My Harvard Hats Off To You
As I approach my three quarter century mark it is only natural that I conclude I know everything. What more is there to learn? To explore this intellectually stimulating philosophical question further, let’s talk pen storage.
My Bicycle Returns Home – (Packing a Bike for Shipping) A Travel Coda
Submitted by Richard Dorsett A week after I returned from my recent tour of Halifax, Nova Scotia to Buffalo, New York (1125 miles), my bicycle was delivered to my door. It was safely packed and in perfect condition. A challenge faced by every touring bicyclist is getting your bike to where you need it and […]
Westside Story – Joe Boyle Fails City Council
On October 2, 2017, I received notice a Suburban Times reader, Ms. Elizabeth James, added two comments to my article titled Westside Story – Pencil Vs. Gun. The second comment disclosed her being victimized by Lakewood City Council’s Rental Housing Safety Program (RHSP). My link will take you to the article and her two comments.
Speak No Evil 2 – So Many Questions
We parked out car on Broadway and withing minutes were hugging our friend. In had been years since we had talked in person to Antonio. It was so nice seeing his smiling face and listening to him laugh. A few weeks ago I wrote an article about the upcoming performance of former Tacoma Poet Laureate […]
Girls Generation Robotics Tournament
What an afternoon of amazement and awe. So many abbreviated words and initials that mean so much more, but look like elements or cryptic codes of a secret society. It began with my wife Peggy. She and friends from her P.E.O. Chapter AY sisterhood group were interviewing young women for a chance at a PEO […]
Letter: Halloween – pretending to be what we’re not
On a day – Halloween – in which people pretend to be what they’re not, one year ago Jordan Peterson, the University of Toronto champion of free speech, told a TV panel of critics that he would not pretend – even before the Ontario Human Rights Commission – to use politically-correct transgender pronouns like zir and […]