At the February meeting of the Transportation Club of Tacoma our representative from Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital updated our membership about Mary Bridge. The latest news was that Johnson Candy is a partner in their latest fund drive. When Peg and I were first married, we rented an apartment from the owner of Johnson’s and […]
Best Hash Browns I've Ever Tasted – Pine Cone Restaurant Review
Sunday morning is an ideal time for breakfast with friends. Sometimes we travel together and sometimes we all meet at a particular restaurant. Texts and phone messages and had been relayed and conveyed. I set out slightly early and arrived at the Pine Cone in University Place about a quarter to nine . . . […]
Letter: Is anyone else tired of the Tacoma News Tribune (TNT) telling our city what to do?
Readers may remember when the TNT – aka, in effect, drug-dealer – editorial board had then recommended Lakewood drop its basically silly scruples and allow marijuana to be sold in the city. Wrote the editorialists: “Principles are well and good, but they don’t keep the lights on, and they don’t pay for recreation departments or […]
Passionate Tosca and her lover Cavaradossi die because of their love – Tacoma Opera
Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca is a passionate and beautifully elegant opera, especially as presented by the Tacoma Opera Society. First mounted in January 1900, it was based on a fictitious events in Rome that happened during the Battle of Marengo, Napoleon’s conquest of Italian territories on June 17 and 18, 1800. Tosca is based on the […]
Westside Story – Jewelers in Cars Getting Coffee
I was relaxing at home, sipping a handcrafted cocktail inspired by my nationally recognized The Manhattan Project Happy Hour drinking program when my phone rang. I know you will not believe what I am about to tell you next. Jerry Seinfeld was calling me right here in the City of Lakewood. It seems impossible, but […]
Tacoma Arts Live – Oleanna Play Review
Tacoma Arts Live description: Named one of Time Magazine’s “Ten Best Plays,” Oleanna is a seething investigation of sexual harassment, political correctness, and the irreconcilable differences between men and women. Pulitzer Prize Winner David Mamet pulls us into a provocative power struggle where “he said, she said” reaches deeply personal and explosive levels. This two-person […]
February is a Proud Month
February can be trying month with storms and floods, but we have much to celebrate as well. As a sophomore at Clover Park High School I used homeroom to write down lines of poetry and words of wisdom from various sources that captured ideals and ideas from around the world. I was an avid reader. […]
Macaluso's Italian Restaurant – Review
We had eaten at Lovino’s in Ruston before and enjoyed the food, but not since it sold and became Macaluso’s Italian Restaurant. It’s been on our list to try for some time. We were in a little time crunch. Peg had to pack her clothes and tools of art for a trip the next morning […]
Across the Fence: The Highest Turns Relative
Does it happen to you that you return to a childhood place, and everything that once seemed so huge, and high, and wide, and mighty seems all of a sudden so much smaller, lower, narrower, and less imposing? Because you have grown up and have experienced more. And you are, literally, standing taller than back […]