A festive Christmas chat on Dec. 14 at 9 a.m. will feature special guests including Chef Anessa McClendon from the Canby, Ore. Event and Conference Center. Chef Anessa, formerly of Good Taste Unlimited of Lakewood will show us how to make a beautiful Christmas Treat box to be used as gifts for businesses or friends. She has also […]
People are still willing to share, but they have to have something to share
“St. Vinnie’s is here to help. If you need emergency assistance to help pay for basic needs, such as rent, utilities, gas, food, clothing or links to other resources, we want to help.” It’s December and winter will soon be here. Executive Director Tracy Peacock recently shared this request from a desperate young woman: “I’m […]
Toy Rescue Mission Needs Help for Young and Old
A life time ago, I was president of the Tacoma Junior Chamber of Commerce (Jaycees). I was invited to a meeting about the economy and Christmas. Helen Mader and six or seven other people along with me gathered to discuss the situation. Our community was still in the doldrums with Boeing layoffs and on top […]
Christmas 2020: Restaurants with holiday meal take-out around Tacoma, Pierce County
Once again, Christmas dinner won’t look like it has in the past for any of us. Who could ever have predicted the most important ingredient during the 2020 holiday dining season would be Webex and Microsoft Teams? Big sigh. With pandemic guidelines suggesting we all skip big gatherings, diners likely will cook smaller meals. Or […]
Wide Open Spaces and the Love of Camp & Counseling
Campers and Camping means the enjoyment of nature and living! Growing up in the 1950s meant camping out. Usually we would travel to either the dunes and scrub brush near Ocean City with our Whitworth relatives, or to Packwood with our neighbors the Bidisons. Millersylvania State Park (just south of Olympia) was a great memory […]
Joeseppi’s has big makeover plans, including adding live music (when allowed)
When the state order came in November requiring restaurant dining rooms to close, some restaurants started hatching plans to turn what most definitely is a negative situation into something transformative. What better time to rip up the floor plan, build a new bar and add a stage and live music space? Diners aren’t spending any […]
Pain, Massage, and Relief – Thousands and Thousands of Years in the Learning
It used to be fairly common to see images of Egyptian hieroglyphics and paintings depicting physicians healing with massage. Most people can tell you exactly where they hurt: shoulder, lower back, knee, foot, and other locations. Plus they can also tell you that rubbing or massaging these areas relieves the pain . . . for […]
Across the Fence: Branches of a Saint
Every year since I remember, my mother used to buy some budded, bare branches on December 4. They were most often willow or hazelnut branches, as these seemed to bud pretty much as the earliest in Germany. They looked somewhat austere; and they were usually placed into a puristic designer vase on a medium height […]
Letter: Living Their Nine Lives
Cats have nine lives because they have a death wish. Running in front of cars, needing rescue from a tree or housetop or letting their curiosity get the best of them, they dance with their own demise. Our cat Tilly – short for Atilla the Hun – is a feline who has, maybe, six lives […]