What is it about puddles and raindrops, blue rubber boots with green frog designs, and yellow rain jackets with hoods not up that beg for a leap-flying, pigtails-scattering, peals-of-laughter-the-air-splitting, water-and-mud-splattering (them and us and the camera lens) kersploosh that is so beautifully, and importantly, a part of childhood?
Lakewood
Westside Story – First & Last Ride
It was back in the mid-1940s when I gave my darling baby sister, Peg, her first vehicle operation lesson by pushing her off the top of Seattle, Washington’s Queen Anne Hill in her all metal baby stroller with sharp rusty edges and no seatbelt.
Letter: Dads and daughters, why they matter
Stormy Daniels, whose birthday is today, is one reason. As I’m writing this, a father and his two daughters came down to go fishing at our lake-front public dock.
Letter: When will the tide change in our country?
My dad, piloting solo, was heading south along the Puget Sound shoreline and had left the wheel of his pride and joy – the inboard plywood boat he’d built – to address a matter near the stern. Unseen ahead was a sandbar which, had dad attended to proper steersmanship, he would have avoided.
Home from Home: Shoes
Submitted by Susanne Bacon Not every woman loves buying shoes. I, for example, am one of those who don’t. Though I certainly have enough pairs to complement my diverse styles and color schemes of clothing. What strikes me most these days is how my shoe styles have changed. And how it has been dictated by […]
Westside Story – Joseph Boyle Photo & Video Dictionary / Wet Bar
Shortly after publishing my The Suburban Times article, Westside Story – Do What I Say, Brother Joseph, Tom Canary, an avid reader in Kentucky chastised me for having a defective photo. He considers the photo a complete and blatant insult to his entire family tradition.
Letter: Court upholds right of cities to ban marijuana
I-502 legalizing marijuana was not, never was, about requiring local jurisdictions to allow the sale of recreational marijuana.
Hess German Bakery & Deli – Restaurant Review
Weisswurst, or bockwurst, is a traditional sausage of Oktoberfest. Weisswurst translates as white sausage (veal and pork). Generally, the only place you can get them are at a German Deli. My wife Peggy graduated from high school in Germany and loves weisswurst on brotchen (a crusty German bun). I was going to be driving through […]
Letter: Lakewood’s “Plan” to include pot ‘of gold’?
When 17-year-old Chloe Kim won the gold medal for the U.S. in the women’s snowboard halfpipe, she said of her third run, “I wouldn’t be satisfied taking the gold and knowing that I hadn’t put down my best. That third run was for me — to put down the best run I could do.”