Recently, I dropped my wife Peg off for an allergy shot, and then drove down MLK to the home and sales store of Johnson Candy Company. You have to brave the construction workers, cones, and vehicles all involved with creating the trolley from downtown to Hilltop. I had run into road closed signs before, but […]
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Cappy’s Produce for the Budget Conscious
I’m pretty sure that my wife Peg and I aren’t the only people that like good produce at affordable prices. One of our favorite places for saving money in our food budget is Cappy’s Produce, located in SouthEast Tacoma. We found this heaven while visiting our foot doctor on 74th and Pacific and exploring after […]
Dollar Tree, Good Food, and Great Prices
In December of 2020 the roof of the Dollar Tree store at Sixth Avenue’s Highland Hill in Tacoma collapsed. It happened at night during a heavy rain. No one was hurt. I have been waiting for Dollar Tree to re-open there ever since. I pestered clerks at the other local Dollar Tree stores about re-opening. […]
Across the Fence: TV Dinners
Submitted by Susanne Bacon. Frozen convenience food, also known as TV dinners, has never been part of my German life. My mother was a home-maker, and she cooked and baked everything from scratch. Most of my peers’ mothers were also home-makers doing the same. Those peers who probably had TV dinners had working mothers and […]
Grounded – Death Delivered from the Red Rocks of Nevada
Playwright George Brant is the author of several award-winning plays, most notably Grounded. His other plays include: Marie and Rosetta, Into the Breeches!, The Prince of Providence, Tender Age, Elephant’s Graveyard, Grizzly Mama, The Mourner’s Bench, Good on Paper, Any Other Name, Salvage, Three Voyages of the Lobotomobile, Night of the Mime, One Hand Clapping, […]
Disenchanted – A Raucous New Musical Comedy – Review
Disenchanted is a feel good musical, that had the audience buzzing before, during, and after the performance. The early buzzing was not really knowing what would be released on the audience. The buzzing grew during the intermission and then as people left the theatre and recognized friends, the buzzing followed up the aisle as voices […]
All Your Account Are Belong To Us
Submitted by Chas. Ames. I have received half-a-dozen email phishing attempts in the last week, and I am a hawk about email security. Warnings claim to come from Amazon, PayPal, Chase Bank, et cetera, that announce your ‘account is locked!’ or other sensational alarms.Then you notice that the return address is completely unintelligible and definitely […]
Looking back to move forward
Pierce County Executive, Bruce Dammeier announcement. We are publishing our second annual Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) report today. While it may seem as if we still have a long road ahead of us in our goal to ensure everyone has “a seat at the table,” it is reassuring to see how far we’ve come. […]
Across the Fence: The Benefits of Business Trips
January – bleak, dark gray, depressing … That’s how it is for many of us in the Pacific Northwest. Especially the dark gray. To me, it used to be the middle of the busiest traveling season of the year back in the day when I was still the editor-in-chief of a German trade magazine. Because […]