Author Marcia K. Morgan, Ph.D., from Bend, Oregon, has worked nationally and internationally in the criminal justice field over 45 years, helping to give women a voice. She is a criminologist/sociologist, researcher, trainer, consultant and author of numerous books and journal articles translated into multiple languages and has been hired to work on crime issues […]
To Ponder
Across the Fence: Volksmusik
Submitted by Susanne Bacon. Whenever I come across a German festival, store, or restaurant over here, I encounter one thing that – I have to admit this much – makes me slightly cringe. It’s a phenomenon with traditionally Southern German, respectively Alpine roots. But I am not sure how many Germans my age are really […]
Letter: We Had This Moment
“How does a moment last forever?” is the title of the original song – and the question raised – by Alan Menken and Tim Rice for Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast.” “Minutes turn to hours, days to years then gone, But when all else has been forgotten, Still our song lives on.” How to keep the […]
Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber Urges Action on Public Safety Legislation
Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber announcement. Public safety and the perceptions of safety have risen to be one of the top issues facing Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber members, their employees, and our residents here in the South Sound. The scale of fentanyl, methamphetamine, and open drug use in our region and state necessitates that the legislature takes action […]
Letter: When the Party is Over
When the party is over, he goes home and, on his threshold, he remembers his loss, and enters again into the shadow of his sorrow that darkens his path. “Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful,” reads the proverb. In this mortal life, joy and sorrow are strangely intermingled. There is no rose without a […]
Red Letter Days for May
By Patt Schwab, PhD. with Dorothy Wilhelm. May is named for Maia, the Roman earth goddess. Researchers tell us that those born in May have the birth benefits of being more strong willed and motivated, than those born in other months.* Dorothy says: I’m getting ready to celebrate my 68th Mother’s Day. I have three […]
Letter: Kind of Like Heaven
Kind of like Heaven I suppose is a bulb brought home from Holland, planted, nurtured, and excitedly watched growing and growing until the time on this glorious day there she is, complete, resplendent, whole.
In the Book Nook with … H.D. Vesser
Author H.D. Vesser from Idaho works as a writer and a wholesaler. She started writing seriously in 2011. Her first book was published in 2018. It is based on bats whom she finds to be widely misunderstood and “morbidly cute”. She is a recipient of the 2021 Writer’s Digest award for “The Little Red Roar-At” […]
Across the Fence: Doppelgänger
Have you ever been told, “I know you from somewhere. Your face is so familiar”? Maybe even followed by the name of a place? If so, you may have wondered whether there is a true, physical doppelgänger of yours, a person who is your look-alike. I keep joking that I have a face in a […]