Sometimes you just luck out. As a sixth grader at Lakewood’s Navy Base grade school, with both parents working I often stayed home after calling the school to say I was ill and wouldn’t be attending class. I loved to stay home and watch black and white movies. I don’t recall seeing the film “Angels […]
To Ponder
Letter: “We Can Do This Dad!”
Just days from now my wife and I would be going somewhere in our little green bug to celebrate her birthday. The car was a gift from our kids on the occasion of our 50th Anniversary, a VW Beetle of nearly the same year as the year we were married, the same make and model as […]
Letter: It’s Not the End of the Story
What does one sheep, one coin, one son who is also a brother, have in common? Other than that each is singular, and the implication is that there are after all other sheep, and more coins, and another son, what perhaps is unfamiliar to some readers but also known to many, is that in each […]
Letter: Final Ascent
Pictured is the final ascent of a peak I climbed recently. Long since having passed the far more gradual grade of the delightfully meandering, well-maintained trail through the cool forest far below where the path was wide enough to accommodate two hikers side-by-side, I looked up at this last pitch to the peak looming before […]
Let’s Talk – Driving Rain
Screens off? Settled in your favorite nook? Or at the dining table? Then, when was the last time you remember driving rain? I’m not talking the incessant drizzle here in the Pacific Northwest that can drive you crazy if it lasts for days on end – maybe that is some different kind of driving rain. […]
Letter: Relationships – A Bird’s-eye View
I climbed a peak recently and except for the few other hikers elsewhere on the trail, I had a quiet, peaceful place alone, all to myself, with a bird’s-eye view of the majestic, distant, far higher peak, and the forested valleys and hills that stretched down and before me from where I sat and ate […]
Across the Fence: Dummkopf
My list of Germanisms in the (American) English language keeps surprising me with words I have never encountered over here. Although there is the possibility that Americans have encountered this one over in Germany after WW II and simply adopted it. Because a foreign cussword sometimes sounds less offending than one in one’s own mother […]
Letter: Somewhere Down There
Somewhere down there, shuttling passengers to and from the airport in New Orleans, is a taxicab driver by the name of Jean Duval. I thought of him last evening as I looked out the window of the airplane carrying me back to Seattle following the conclusion of the National School Board Association annual conference. The […]
Incorruptible, a Dark Comedy About the Dark Ages
Incorruptible is a cross between Brother Cadfael and Cyndi Lauper – we step back in time about 1500 years to find out that Money Changes Everything. We see Europe ages ago and we ask the question, are we really any different. Incorruptible plays through April 21 at Lakewood Playhouse. The Middle Ages is the second […]