I hadn’t visited home in years, but I always enjoyed driving over the pass and looking at the open fields along the way. My buddy Rich had found an ideal sales job for me, and any money seemed like a good deal. I was nearly at Snoqualmie Pass when my engine over-heated. Luckily I had […]
To Ponder
Letter: Taking Time to Be
There’s a memorial pool near my wife’s gravesite. A meandering stream of water finds its way over moss covered rocks and drops into the pool causing tremulous reflections on the surface. As a modernist painter might sweep with purposefully erratic and bold strokes of his brush, the vibrancy of daffodils and trees become abstract splashes […]
Letter: Senator, you’re no . . .
Submitted by Aaron Arkin. Recently, for two days the entire Town of Steilacoom intermittently lost electric power, leaving me without a hot supper and several hours of free time to contemplate in the dark who knows what or why. It was during one of these meandering states that I began to think about the famous […]
Taking Leave – Live Theater Review
In the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, Eliot, a learned professor (played by Kerry Bringman) is “taking leave” of his senses and the real world. Trying to help him cope is another version of Eliot (played by W. Scott Pinkston) who understands the problem and wants to help both Eliot and his three daughters. Producers […]
Letter: More apartments for Gravelly Lake Drive by the mall and high school
I’m reaching out for anyone who lives in the area of Gravelly Lake Drive as pictured in the map. I’m looking for you! Or if you know someone who lives in this area, please alert them. You might also want to read this if you are interested in the main Lakewood Library. The City of […]
Letter: Twice Upon a Time
How will your life’s story end? What if, in the admittedly unknown time you have left, you had a wish-come-true opportunity to live life, if not all over again, at least fully, ‘twice upon a time,’ not just once? What would you do differently? Who might you love passionately? How would your new-found life change […]
Letter: Another Reason To Choose Private School
Submitted by KM Hills. In 2020 Washington State passed a “Comprehensive Sexual Education Bill” which remains controversial.On March 21, 2024 KOMO News shared a story about how the State now takes it one step further and will soon mandate that LGBTQ+ history be taught in all public schools. Our local school districts will now be […]
Letter: The Day I Went Back
It had been one year since she left us. My wife of 50 years, the love and treasure of my life, the mother of our children and grandchildren, was gone. Cancer won. We all lost. In her memory then I climbed. There are two ways up that mountain, one with a view, and one (I […]
Let’s Talk! – In the Wide, Waiting Land
Are all your screens switched off? Are you ready for another pondering prompt by Tyrean Martinson? Then, what do you come up with when reading “In the Wide, Waiting Land?” First of all, I thought this might be a line from another poem. I found the Arizona March Song with the line “Where the wide, […]