Story & Photos – Joseph Boyle Check out the photo I captured at the Starbucks located at SR 512 and South Tacoma Way. Everyone knows the parking, while recently improved, is very limited. That being the case, does anyone have any idea why this driver would do such a sloppy job of parking? Why should […]
To Ponder
Westside Story – The Eyes Have It
Story & Photo – Joseph Boyle Warning! Grandfathers, everywhere. Be careful what you teach your grandchildren when it comes to eye tricks. Since it is too late for me, how about a Caption-for-Photo Contest? Go ahead, what captions come to your creative mind?
Letter: Marijuana – Not Here, Not Now, Not Us
By David Anderson Putting marijuana in the mainstream will not keep it out of youth’s bloodstream. The board of the Tillicum Woodbrook Neighborhood Association (TWNA) opposes the siting of marijuana retail, growing, or distribution centers within the Tillicum Woodbrook neighborhood and the TWNA board further appreciates and expects that its elected representatives will give due […]
Letter: ‘Once Upon A Time’
By David Anderson The Prince Charming far, far too many sex trafficked victims will never meet. When Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis conceived the TV series entitled “Once Upon A Time,” it was rejected by the networks as “too fantastic.”
Letter: “The End”
By David Anderson Why mentoring matters. Typical, or at least rudimental, for beginners anyway, are the use of the words that frame the familiar opening sentence in fables, folk-lore, fiction and the like.
Westside Story – Starbucks Garden
Story & Photos – Joseph Boyle Mr. Garner Thomas in Starbucks Garden Several years ago Mr. Garner Thomas and I met at the 100th Street Starbucks in Lakewood. My first impression of Mr. Thomas is that he is kind, polite, friendly and interesting to talk to. To me, finding a good human being is a […]
Letter: Halloween – An Alternative View
By David Anderson The skeletons sat in the sun with no faces, yellowish, stubby skin stretched across bone, jawbones seemingly cutting through, eyes unseeing, teeth for the most part missing, loathsome; death everywhere including tanks of water, bodies floating, all so surreal.
Westside Story – The Value of Money
Story & Photo – Joseph Boyle This is a short story with two chapters. Chapter 1: Uncle Leo & Money In 1962 I met my wife’s Uncle Leo. Uncle Leo was a generation ahead of us. His parents immigrated from Holland. Dutch farmers know how to work and that work ethic was handed down to […]
Letter: An Old Coat and a Few Books
By David Anderson Shivering against the cold in the dank cell – “the draught blows through the only little slit which they call a window” – the huddled, greying old man rocks back and forth, back and forth, on a stone slab that should have more resembled a throne.