He was standing in front of the cash register at our place of business from which I’m often gone that being because we just have a lot going on and, despite the beautiful weather, I’ve got things to do elsewhere. “This is for yesterday since you weren’t here, and today.” Fishermen, which this fellow is, […]
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Letter: Gig Harbor is going to the Olympics
Got a call this morning from my brother Alan. His voice broke. He was emotional. Been up all night. On the other side of the world, Szeged, Hungary, at 2:30 A.M. our time, this August 24, Nevin Harrison, who trained at Gig Harbor the last seven or eight months or so, who is from Seattle […]
Susanne Bacon Reads at the Topside Coffee Cabin
Why does somebody in Wycliff deposit vintage jewelry in the museum curator’s front yard? How can that very same small museum accept a huge inheritance of exhibits without going bust either in space or debt? And what does the Topside Coffee Cabin in Steilacoom have to do with all of this? Why don’t you come […]
Across the Fence: Riding the Rails
This year began with a promise my husband and I gave each other: to explore new things and to leave off revisiting those we know fairly well already. The other day we were looking into some special things to do with a young adult, an activity that would mean experiencing something new together. We did […]
Letter: The Best and the Brightest
Recently we added a beautiful little, older but carefully maintained, boat and motor to our rental fishing fleet. Already we’ve rented it out twice and only to the best and the brightest – true fishing aficionados – as evidenced just this morning. Out of all the boats (row, or boat and motor with 3.3 Merc, […]
Across the Fence: The Green Man
Have you ever traveled to Europe? Ever since having visited the Cathedral of Norwich, UK, I am looking out for Green Men. No kidding, and I don’t mean those supposedly alien creatures from Mars. I mean the legendary Green Men that are lurking in churches and in old castles, but also in old pub signs […]
Letter: Backing Down
The bow holds steady, the stern backs down, and so we ease away from the dock. At least that’s the plan but both of us were reluctant to move. Even the coach in the launch just sat there. Not looking at us or the rest of the crew – doubles like us, fours and eights […]
Not Kidding. We’re History.
History is being made on the Fourth Friday of every month at the Lakewood Senior Activity Center. Believe it or not. That’s the day Amanatee Radio Ear of Sarasota Florida records “Swimming Upstream, Dorothy Wilhelm’s Internet Radio Show.” Where you will hear programming you can’t hear anywhere else. Right this minute, drop everything and go […]
Letter: When you get to where we got
At the farthest reaches of where we rowed this morning the tight puddles left by our paddles stretched it seemed like forever behind our double shell. They were the only disturbance of the mirrored surface, that and the thin vapor-like trail of our boat’s wake connecting as it were the dots we left behind. We […]