My client King’s Towing/Recovery received great news last week. King’s Towing of Puyallup has been selected for the 2020 Best of Tacoma Award in the Towing Service category by the Tacoma Award Program. Each year, the Tacoma Award Program identifies companies that they believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business […]
Letter: A homeschooling irony
Harvard would ban homeschooling. The National Education Association (NEA) would ban homeschooling. And yet what hath the coronavirus wrought? Homeschooling. The Editorial Board of the Tacoma News Tribune (TNT) recently opined with regards “Washington’s new sex education law (that) if parents don’t like it? Two words: Opt out.” They might. Altogether. “The coronavirus pandemic has […]
Business Statistics Are Up and So Is The Internet . . . Hopefully
On Wednesday, the first of the month, I ran March stats for my clients. Internet business traffic means sales. We like to provide our clients with a list showing the number of visitors they had along with downloadable pdfs for possible viral marketing, and their most popular pages. Once the stats are complete Peggy sends […]
Letter: This little light of mine – in the coronavirus, a candle in the window
She’s so little. ‘Petite’ a stranger called her. She has just learned to walk and while she’s already become quite proficient and doesn’t at all need my help, still I extend way down to her my hand and she, reaching up, will grasp one finger of mine in her little grip, and off we’ll go. […]
Labrador Retrievers Are Still Number One
Opinions differ on the approximate time of domestication of dogs from gray wolves, but the window that scientists do agree on is somewhere between fifteen thousand to forty thousand years ago. Brian Hare, director of the Duke University Canine Cognition Center reveals in the Smithsonian Magazine (August 15, 2018), “. . . the physical changes […]
Jaynie Dillon – Radio Personality Plus
I met Jaynie Jones when she and her husband Charles came over to buy my wife’s exercise bike. It was a beautiful summer day. We all chatted and laughed for well over an hour. The bike had very little use at our home. Once gone I never asked about the bike, but if Charles and […]
Letter: Banning fireworks, the Coronavirus, and mandating Sex Education
Borrowing from an argument put forth by Ryan T. Anderson, substituting specific issues but still examining the principle: ‘If Thomas Jefferson and James Madison came back to America today and heard about the proposal to ban fireworks in local municipalities; or about how parents were responding to the forced education of their children at home; […]
Across the Fence: Daffodils
The other day, our sweet next-door neighbor and friend, Anita, gave us flowers from her garden – bright yellow daffodils. I placed them in a vase on our dining table, and they seemed to be a spot of sunlight in their own right. It made the cheerful setting even more cheerful. And it made me […]
Letter: The great battle being fought over Sex Education in Washington Public Schools
Ultimately, it is about the erosion of the privileges and responsibilities historically, not to mention biologically, we believe – or used to – are, or were, rightfully the purview of parents. It is apparent, however, that public schools would now parent, having been mandated that authority. Gov. Jay Inslee signed into law this past Friday, […]