Submitted by Don Doman Everyday is the kind of day that cries out for adventure. To celebrate I suggest you go through a carwash. You know the ones where you pull up to the entrance, pay the fee, and then pull in at the green light and stop when the red light comes on. Your […]
Westside Story – Tripping With Uber
When I was 16 years old in 1959, my parents moved from South Seattle to Firwood just north of the Puyallup River. It took a few days, but eventually, I found where my parents had gone and I moved in with them.
Sweet Iodine, My Iodine . . .
Submitted by Don Doman In the 1950s when I was growing up, if you had a cut or a scrape your mother would get out the little bottle of iodine or Mercurochrome to paint the hurt away. This was to be avoided by children at all costs. It stung! Mercurochrome contained iodine. It’s off the […]
Snipe from the sidelines or… Advise Your City
Lakewood City Council has a noteworthy arrangement in terms of its public outreach. The City has nearly a dozen Advisory Boards. On alternating Mondays the Council often meets with those Boards in a Joint Study session.
Westside Story – Who Pick, You Pick
What should we talk about today? How about… Lakewood City Council’s Rental Inspection Program (RIP)? Homing pigeons? The size and impact of Joe Boyle’s carbon footprint?
Letter: ‘Husbandeth’ – my word for today
The things you discover while on your way somewhere else if but only we take the time. The annual Cambridge–Oxford “side-by-side” rowing race between the two prestigious universities on the 4.2-mile course of the Thames River that flows through southern England was held on March 24, 1937.
The Oreo Solution to Creative Problem Solving
Submitted by Don Doman The commercial starts off with music by Tchaikovsky and three little ballerinas dressed in pink. It’s time for a break. They get out glasses and milk. They pour what milk they have into three glasses and sit down to enjoy Oreos and milk. But, oh my gosh, there’s a problem. The […]
Letter: City election a referendum on Rental Inspection
With the first day of Summer this past June 21 ushering in a heat wave of stifling, muggy temperatures across the country, there’s a sweltering of another kind nationwide that has citizens rather steamed.
Westside Story – Incongruity
I love walking around the planet because you never know what you are going to run into and as you know, I am always looking for the funny.