We just had left-overs for lunch today, as I am writing this. In a way, it was even left-overs from left-overs. The other day, I had tried a new recipe for a vegetable chili that asked for an eggplant in it. It was a good chili. But as we are only two people, an entire […]
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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels – Hilarious & Top Drawer – Musical Review
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is the story of two con men competing to swindle an heiress out of $50,000. One is suave the other is a small-time rival. The location is an upscale resort on the French Riviera. You probably have no idea how much a full parking lot means to a live theatre company. Most […]
Calling Doctor Weirdo – The Introduction of a New Hero
Episode 14 – Fake Mormons On the way to bed the night before I told Rose, “I think we’ll see Jack, soon.” My answer to her “How do you know?” look just received a shrug of my shoulders. Often you can just feel things as they are about to happen. Even so, I was shocked […]
Moby Dick – A Whale of a Movie – Review
I walked to the Lakewood Colonial Theatre in 1956 from our home on Maple Avenue to see the film Moby Dick. I would have been 11 or 12. I had read the CLASSICS Illustrated comic book before seeing the film and then read the Herman Melville book later. As a teenager I subscribed to a […]
Across the Fence: Keeping Places Happy
It’s the day after the Academy Awards, as I am writing this article, and the world of TV audience seems to be divided. I didn’t even watch the entire program, just maybe the last 15 minutes. To be honest, it has become way too political for my taste. And each and everybody of those who […]
How to Help St. Vinnies and Others in Your Community
People in our communities need help. St. Vinnies (St. Vincent de Paul Society) has been offering assistance to individuals for years, but there are others who help as well. It seems that every year the load gets heavier and the number of people in lines grow longer. Many people step up to help, but we […]
Your Old Car Could Be Someone’s Salvation
By donating your old car, St. Vinnies can resell or provide transportation to the doctor’s officer, the grocery store, kindergarten . . . or to work! Even decades old cars can help someone. St. Vinnies can spin your old car into gold for a desperate family in Tacoma/Pierce County. Regardless if you drove it yesterday […]
Not Out of Gas but Out for Cash
I had dropped off my wife Peg for her allergy shots at the Baker Center, visited Johnson’s Candy a few blocks south for some energy and had gone back to park outside the Baker Center on MLK Jr Way, formerly K Street where the second place we lived after marriage was an apartment at 911 […]
Gyro Bites – Delightfully Surprising
We don’t follow through and write reviews of every restaurant we visit. We know how hard it is to be successful with location, workers, menus, and service . . . and of course food worth eating and telling the world about. I first ate at Gyro Bites before COVID. My buddy Jim Harris and I […]