The Romans were pretty smart for their times. They built roads and structures that are still standing. If you wear a wedding ring on the ring finger of your left hand, it’s because you are part of the Roman tradition. The ancient Romans believed that the vein ran from the third finger in the left […]
Leadership and Band of Brothers
I first saw the insignia of the 101st Airborne Division as a child. My mother worked at the Mount Rainier Ordinance Depot as a secretary. “The Mount Rainier Ordnance Depot served the United States Army between 1942 and 1963 as a primary vehicle-, arms-, and missile-repair facility. This depot provided ordnance equipment to the Pacific […]
Across the Fence: The Wild Hunt
Today, I am starting this new column, and I will chat to you in a neighborly fashion across the fence. But I also would like to invite you to hop across your fence to discover and explore all kinds of things and places. Let’s start with something that is as current as it gets. You […]
Dying is Easy… Comedy is Hard
New Year’s Day. I was up early and reading the Newspapers. I noted in The News Tribune that actor Frank Langella turned eighty-one. You may not recognize the name, but Peg and I have loved his acting since seeing him in one of our favorite Mel Brooks’ movies, The Twelve Chairs (1970). We discovered the […]
Westside Story – New Year’s Resolutions
Here we are. If you are reading this, we all made it to New Years Day, 2019. Had early 1900s societal expectations not pressured my father into becoming a cancer stick smoker, he could have become age 100 this year. It is a good day to reflect on the past, and then once accomplished to […]
Posers, Problems, and Pickles
I’ve long used the technique of visualizing an internet marketing problem and turning it all around in my mind like a holographic image. This lets me find solutions that are unique and unusual. I like visualizing ideas revolved, rotated, spun, turned inside-out and flipped on their heads. I constantly ask myself, “What if?” My favorite, […]
New Year, New You
Many will say that their favorite holiday is Christmas. Visions of family, memories of cherished values, moments of life and light captured in time and tenderness. Some will say their favorite holiday is Independence Day (every country has a Fourth of July, after all). I have realized that the dawn of a New Year holds […]
Westside Story – Don Doman, Don Doman
On December 27, 2018, my friend and prolific writer, Don Doman, published a story in The Suburban Times titled, Robin Hood and the Plight of the Arrow. It was an exciting story describing Don’s youth as he related to his TV and movie hero, Robin Hood. If you missed Don’s story, click my custom link Don Doman’s Quiver. Of […]
Aplets & Cotlets Imported from Turkey?
Did you know that Washington State’s Aplets and Cotlets were created in ancient Turkey? These sweet little confections weren’t called Aplets and Cotlets then, of course. There were called “lokum.” “Lokum was first referred to as ‘rahat ul-hulküm’ in Arabic which means ‘comforting the throat’, but over time it became ‘comfortable delight’.”* Turkish people recognize […]