Our Sunday morning breakfast group chose to dine at Knapp’s Restaurant in the Proctor District. I was so excited. They have long been a favorite restaurant for breakfast. Their hash browns were my ideal: dark brown and crispy. They had great bacon and sausage served with excellent toast and lots of Smucker’s jam/jelly choices. Their […]
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Westside Story – The Inventor – Part II
If you missed my previous column titled, Westside Story – The Inventor – Part I, click the link to be taken back in time. In 1967 I purchased a Charmglow natural gas grill which I have owned for over 50 years. I recently concluded allowing my son-in-law to grill with a BBQ that is older […]
Foxes and Other Wildlife from Lakewood to Alaska
A while back, I sat talking with my friend, Dave Jones, the old Alaskan story teller. He owns Alpenview Lodge on Kodiak Island and lives in Pierce County when not at the lodge. Many people come to his lodge to fish for salmon and steelhead on the local rivers or they try their hands at […]
Letter: Odds and ends
On my office desk at work there’s a tiny wooden box, open at the top, containing 13 “Forever” postage stamps, three safety pins, a ring I found, a single spacer for laying tile, a dime and a penny. There’s also a spare clicker – a duplicate of the one mounted in my truck – that […]
Westside Story – The Inventor – Part I
Have you ever asked yourself why Ben Sclair does not publish Westside Story articles more frequently? Let me try to explain the cause of the inordinate lulls between Westside Story columns. It is not Ben’s fault. A rock-solid reason that sounds fairly impressive is that I have engulfed myself in a whirlwind cycle of high […]
Across the Fence: A Time to Write
Have you made your annual Christmas card list already? Don’t think it’s too early for that; because if you are crafting yours and if some of them go overseas, you want to be ahead of the postal cut-off date. But I’m also talking of a different kind writing. Another long winter season lies ahead in […]
Westside Story – It's Only An Urge
It’s Only An Urge. Boyle urges China to investigate the Trumps Joe Biden thinks Joe Boyle is funny! Credits and thanks: (1) Mrs. B. for photography and photo pre-production to make this attempt at humor possible. (2) Jimmy Howe for purchasing one of President Donald Trump’s old red ties at the Trump family moving sale […]
Letter: One year ago, today
It’s the call you never want to get. It’s what happens to other people, that is, until your phone rings. Grief like a grave with both ends kicked out stretches on and on. And on. Sometimes it’s a medical prognosis that confirms our worst fear; an unjust accusation that is most difficult to bear. We […]
CenterStage Hound of the Baskervilles Review
Although CenterStage Theatre is actually in Federal Way you wouldn’t guess it from tour drive on Sunday afternoon. After driving around the Port of Tacoma and following Marine View Drive to Brown’s Point and though the lovely fall foliage we parked at the theater on Dumas Bay. After the play we walked around the park-like […]