I love living in a town with such little pretense, especially when it comes to our food. Our economy relies on strip malls, so much so that strip malls have become ever present in our daily lives. It’s where one completes the most mundane of tasks – dry cleaning, dog grooming, cell phone upgrading …. […]
Lakewood First Lions looking for new members
The Lakewood First Lions Club, which began on March 17, 1954, is looking for new members. The club’s motto is “We Serve” and we mean it. Your joining our club allows us to: Expand our work in protecting the gifts of sight and hearing by testing students in the Clover Park School District when schools are […]
Larry Crowne Movie Review – What America Could Be
I like films that at their heart have a theme of “Do the right thing.” I joined Showtime so I could stream The Comey Rule starring Jeff Daniels and Brendan Gleeson. Showtime had a special offer one month free to try their selections out. The Comey Rule was about Donald Trump and the Russian interference […]
M. Frank Lyons, II, M.D. retires to The Lyons Lifestyle
Last Sunday I consumed a 4-liter jug of GoLYTELY, 8 ounces at a time, every ten minutes, until I had finished it, in preparation for a long overdue colonoscopy and upper endoscopy early on Monday morning in Tacoma. The procedures had been scheduled/canceled/rescheduled and postponed several times due to COVID-19 in Seattle at Virginia Mason. […]
Letter: Just Passing Through
They had met on the train. He was a handsome soldier on reassignment just passing through. “May I sit here?” he had asked. And so it began. Fifty-eight wonderful years of marriage eventually followed that first encounter. He has been gone some years now, and sometimes she will go to a railway station – it […]
Tacoma’s Old Town Wine Skins is open and kid friendly
The first thing you’ll notice about Old Town Wine Skins is how light and bright the space has become. That’s the work of co-owner Cosette Pfaff, who opened the wine bar and eatery on Monday in Tacoma’s Old Town neighborhood. The space formerly housed Montamara Kitchen. The footprint shifted a bit with the addition of […]
Letter: “Going To The Garden!”
With that four word proclamation my mother would head out to pursue her greatest passion, the nurturing of beauty. No greater joy, no time better spent, no more captivated audience of one than she when surrounded by her flowers. It seemed that the closer to the earth mother was, the happier she grew. What was […]
Spice Lab, new to downtown Tacoma, has a familiar chef
Chef Blake Lord-Wittig dug deep into hyper local ingredients at his last restaurant, De La Terre. With Spice Lab, his new restaurant opening in downtown Tacoma on October 21, the concept goes global in scope and spice. Lord-Wittig’s glazed carrots, for instance, are fueled by Middle Eastern and Moroccan ingredients: harissa, dukkah and labneh yogurt. […]
Westside Story – 14 Years Later
My Westside Story – Voter’s Pamphlet – Lieutenant Cyndie Fajardo article was published in The Suburban Times on October 18, 2020. Click my LINK above to return to the original article. One of my readers, Shelley Hull, made a comment every voter should hear and consider before voting. While I have tried to make the […]