You may have realized that my other half of the Double Touble, cherished columnist and friend Joe Boyle, and I decided on a short summer break recently, but now we are back with more takes on shared topics, which we call Double Take. Joe actually inspired us both with some photos of skies shortly after […]
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Boyle’s Double Take – Sky
Recently as I looked into the sky,I said to myself, oh my, oh my. I could not see a cloud because of all the smoke.And that is no joke. As I saw the flames licking after Oregon brush,I felt a kind of panicky rush. Our air quality recently zoomed through the roof.It seems fire can […]
Chinese Reconciliation Park Moon Festival Goes Virtual – October 1st
Caption #1 – A few years ago a diver found a beautiful Chinese bowl off shore from the original homes of the Chinese . . . a rare artifact of the expulsion event. The Moon Festival with entertainment, moon cakes and more to eat has been a rousing success over the last several years. This […]
Westside Story – 3 Heroes
I promise, if you read enough Westside Story today, you will experience a fantastic tale. The story embedded below is titled, A Great Story. I am not bragging. To be honest, I did not write A Great Story. My original plan to write a different Westside Story was interrupted when Angelo Scalici emailed me a […]
Letter: So, is it true after all?
“We’re all just trash, waiting to be thrown away! That’s what all a toy is!” Lotso argues with Woody in Toy Story 3. “You were made to be thrown away. Ain’t one kid ever loved a toy, really.” We were in line this weekend at the City of Lakewood’s wonderful Community Cleanup program. In partnership […]
Early Birthday Dinner at Joeseppi's
In the time before COVID we loved parties. There is no proof to my wife’s allegation that I once forgot her birthday, which is . . . sometime in October . . . I believe. However, at Peg’s suggestion, I have long celebrated her birthday starting in September and carrying on through October and perhaps […]
Across the Fence: American Cheesecake
Recently, a Facebook friend of mine posted a marvelous photo of a slice of cheesecake that literally made me drool. Me, who is known not to be into sweet things really! So, I asked her for the recipe. Only to be utterly surprised. But I’ll return to this later. You wouldn’t believe how old the […]
Westside Story – Piano Playing
How many play the piano? If you say, “Yes, I play the piano.”; I am jealous. If you play Blues piano, I am beside myself. I have always wanted to play the Blues piano. If I live to be age 100, then I have frittered away over three quarters of my life, and I still […]
Following Poetry and Science Fiction to Wherever They Lead
I was reading the September 13, 2020 issue of Pacific NW from The Seattle Times. When I came upstairs for breakfast at 6:45 I found the slim magazine open to page 12. The article was entitled The Power of Poetry and featured Raul Sanchez, the poet laureate of Redmond, Washington. Outside his home, Sanchez has […]