I saw him coming down the street as I looked out the window. It was a cold day and it just plain felt damp. About fifteen minutes later I heard the noisy cranking of our doorbell. I opened the door to see the older man that was even older than I had first imagined. He […]
To Ponder
Letter: Beachwood Elementary School: Successful within a failing Clover Park School District
Submitted by John Arbeeny, LakewoodCARES.org. Each week as a public service Lakewood CARES will be providing the real academic situation in response schools highlighted in the Suburban Times by Clover Park School District (CPSD). This is data you will not find elsewhere on the CPSD website, Board meeting agendas or “Inside Schools”. This week’s CPSD […]
Letter: Need To Get Away?
If you are planning on visiting Mount Rainier this summer, you’re going to need a reservation according to the National Park Service. Evidently there are too many people all at once wanting to get away from it all only to discover everybody else does too. Where do you go when your heart is overwhelmed, when […]
Letter: A Walk In The Woods
Two days from now will be 10 months since I lost my wife of 50 years to cancer. Lately I have been encouraged to think not how much I miss what I had with her, but to be happy, joyful even, that I had her at all and for so long and, even more importantly, […]
Let’s Talk! – Watch for Me by Moonlight
What a tricky prompt Tyrean Martinson’s book gave us for today’s conversation topic … My first train of thought was “person, moonlight, danger”, and I ended up with werewolf! Now, I could make up a story of me turning into a werewolf, of course. Is the female form “werewolverine”, by the way? Knowing my friend, […]
Letter: She’s So Far Away
It’ll be cold again this evening; they say there’ll be more snow. Odd since the sunrise this morning gave wonderful promise of a beautiful day, the sky clear, barely wisps of clouds drifting across the brightening sky. Not that snow isn’t beautiful. It is after all most certainly true, that there’s something about a world […]
Perspectives on Time
I certainly feel the need for time to “cram,” to learn, to be able to use all the info-tech tools I have available, and to have time to sort out my own feelings of the events, when someone you know or love, dies. I remember a futurist’s adage about Paradigm Shifts –when a new idea, […]
Across the Fence: Hamster
We all have encountered this Germanism during the Corona virus pandemic – hamster (pronounce hum-stah). Indeed, the English version of the noun and verb is identical in its unconjugated or undeclined form whereas the German infinitive adds an “n”, hamstern. As a linguist, I’m thrilled of course, to find that word, although allegedly derived from […]
Letter: Yellow Roses
Clutching his arm as they enter the restaurant she whispers, “What beautiful yellow roses!” He smiles. “They are, aren’t they?” Indeed, there on the reservation desk stood a bouquet of yellow roses, intermixed with white baby’s breath, stunningly beautiful in a vase tied with yellow ribbon. It is their anniversary and he has requested a […]