Okay, I’m a sap for happy endings. I’m a incurable romantic . . . please, don’t bring it up. I like the stories on the Hallmark cable channel. What I don’t like are all the commercials and the denouement with the loose strands of the plot being tidied up in seconds for a story that […]
Old Buildings, Old Bones, and Old Memories
Buildings are like people. We’re conceived; we’re delivered; we age; we die; and we sometimes leave nothing but our bones. For years we had our video production studio at 13th and Fawcett; we produced television shows and industrial videos, and now the building is just bones. At one time this was an Eagles aerie and […]
Westside Story – Toilet Intelligence Test
We just got back from the East Coast. During our travels I spotted three signs which caused me to ponder and to utter a slang phrase aloud, “Say what?” I realize the sign makers are trying to send a message to the public, who gets to use their bathroom facility for free, to not abuse […]
Rotary District 5020 Conference – All Winners
The first weekend in May, Rotary District 5020 held their annual conference in Tacoma (Hotel Murano). District 5020 is one of the few international Rotary districts in the world and contains Rotarians on Vancouver Island, B.C. and Western Washington from Pierce County south to Woodland including the Olympic Peninsula. Worldwide Rotary unites over a million […]
Letter: Educate or eradicate – a pot predicament
The upcoming night of May 7, the Lakewood City Council will recognize with a proclamation in their honor, the “more than 940 Clover Park School District (CPSD) certified employees (who) work to open student’s minds to ideas, knowledge and dreams” (p.005, of 534).
Chinese and the Mississippi Delta – Not that Far Away
I don’t know how I stumbled onto Untold America on Facebook, but the programs are riveting and unusual. The first one I found was “Chinese and the Mississippi Delta,” which told the story of the Chinese in Mississippi. Since over the last year I’ve been involved in the Chinese Reconciliation Project Foundation, I was drawn […]
Home from Home: White Asparagus
Submitted by Susanne Bacon What is it with German-Americans and their love for white asparagus? We keep craving it especially during spring time. We do a dance of joy as soon as we spot some in a supermarket. We talk about it on Facebook when we have found some, and all our German-American friends go […]
Nurse practitioner launches Zombie novel
Submitted by Susanne Bacon Usually, I don’t spend my time reading or watching anything Zombie. Until I came across KT Volante’s novel “When the World Flipped”, and now I am even waiting for the release of its sequel.
Eating Chinese Food and Planting Seeds of Science
After dining with our granddaughter and her boyfriend at a Taiwanese restaurant at the South Center Mall, I searched for local Chinese restaurants that offered Taiwanese food. We had already visited The Fortune Cookie in DuPont and had plans to visit Tacoma Szechuan in Lakewood. Life sometimes moves faster than our plans, however. An ultra-quick […]