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, […]
To Ponder
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 […]
In the Book Nook with … D.L. Fowler
Author D.L. Fowler from Gig Harbor, WA, a former investment manager and tax accountant, began writing in about 2007 and published his first novel in 2011. “The Turn: a bond that shaped history” was a finalist in several competitions and won first place in historical fiction in the Pacific Northwest Writers Association literary contest. His […]
Letter: What Can Happen When a Government Ignores its Citizen’s Input (Especially When It’s Valid)
Submitted by Eric Chandler. Be advised, 12-years ago, a 5-year-long study by Citizen Volunteers, experts one and all, resulted in a comprehensive “Waughop Lake Remedial Action Plan”. In 2012 that plan was given to the City of Lakewood, free-of-charge. And, it was ignored. Since then, the City has paid contractors almost $300,000 to have a new study, […]
Letter: How Do You Know If It’s Real?
Has the ever popular Volkswagen Beetle really been around since dinosaurs roamed the earth? Are telemarketers trustworthy? Members of Congress, car salespeople? The answer to all of the above is a resounding: ‘no.’ The bottom-dwellers of the 2023 Gallup poll which ranked professions based on honesty and ethics were telemarketers, members of Congress, and car […]