In my 20+ years of writing about restaurants around here, a constant question diners send me is – where can I go for fish and chips on the waterfront that’s affordable and has a view? My answer always: Steamers Seafood Cafe at Tacoma’s Titlow Beach. Steamers is Tacoma’s most affordable seafood restaurant with sweeping this-is-why-we-live-here […]
Julie Gold – Changing the World From a Distance
March is Women’s History Month. It’s recognition of achievement and a celebration of the effort and struggle that we hope inspires more women to dream and accomplish. In 1992 Peg and I watched the first show of Austin City Limits – Season 17. The program featured female songwriters. On the show were Nanci Griffith, the […]
COVID-19 Is Not Over Yet . . . Even if You've Had it
As people age, we all worry about finding ourselves lost and confused, however it’s now happening to younger people as well. Roughly 30% of COVID survivors are experiencing side-effects from the disease that includes confusion and memory loss. I’m an avid listener to NPR, but only when I’m either driving by myself or waiting for […]
Letter: Mind To Hand Work
The two brother brick layers worked as quietly and smoothly as polished granite – with seemingly little effort and without a word passed between them. While one yielded a masonry hammer in his calloused right hand to trim and clean bricks, the other lifted a trowel in his rough right hand to butter up bricks […]
Potholes R Us – A Short Story
I don’t know about you, but I got tired of driving my car over and lurching down the giant potholes on the road. I even had one by my drive way. That’s how it all began. Well actually, I was just starting to repair my own asphalt drive way. I watched a number of Youtube […]
Oyster Fest at Anthony's Point Defiance – Restaurant Review
When I sat down at my computer at 4:00 am, I didn’t have any plans for the day. I didn’t know Peg and I would be going out to dinner. The email promoting Anthony’s Oyster Fest was delivered in the early afternoon. We called Anthony’s at 4:15 pm to make sure there were tables available […]
Good-bye Black History Month – February 2021
“Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.” – Edmund Burke I for one, am sad to see February and Black History Month leave us behind. “Black History Month is an annual celebration of achievements by African Americans and a time for recognizing their central role in U.S. history. Also known as African […]
Across the Fence: It’s All Greek To Me
The other day I finished a book that my sweet friend Katerina in Athens had taken great pain to find for me. It was the English translation of a Greek author, in this case Ilias Venezis. A wonderful book to boot. But it made me thoughtful why, besides the great classics like Homer, Aristotle, Plato, […]
Coffee Chat and Change the world, March 8
Coffee Chat Guests often “graduate” to a full length interview on Swimming Upstream Radio Show. You’ll be able to hear an interview with our own Gina Carey on March 29 – anywhere you hear podcasts. Here’s what’s coming up on Monday, March 8 at 9 am Father Fred Tells it like it is – and this time […]