If you like to eat crab (chicken is an alternate meal choice), dance to a fabulous rock band, splurge on fabulous desserts, then plan on attending the Lakewood First Lions Club’s sixth annual Crab Feed at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 26th, 2019, at Clover Park Technical College’s Sharon McGavick Center in Lakewood. Tickets are […]
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Across the Fence: The Wild Hunt
Today, I am starting this new column, and I will chat to you in a neighborly fashion across the fence. But I also would like to invite you to hop across your fence to discover and explore all kinds of things and places. Let’s start with something that is as current as it gets. You […]
Westside Story – New Year’s Resolutions
Here we are. If you are reading this, we all made it to New Years Day, 2019. Had early 1900s societal expectations not pressured my father into becoming a cancer stick smoker, he could have become age 100 this year. It is a good day to reflect on the past, and then once accomplished to […]
New Year, New You
Many will say that their favorite holiday is Christmas. Visions of family, memories of cherished values, moments of life and light captured in time and tenderness. Some will say their favorite holiday is Independence Day (every country has a Fourth of July, after all). I have realized that the dawn of a New Year holds […]
Westside Story – Don Doman, Don Doman
On December 27, 2018, my friend and prolific writer, Don Doman, published a story in The Suburban Times titled, Robin Hood and the Plight of the Arrow. It was an exciting story describing Don’s youth as he related to his TV and movie hero, Robin Hood. If you missed Don’s story, click my custom link Don Doman’s Quiver. Of […]
Letter: Goofy and the Girl
Our daughter and her husband, recently returned from Disneyland, had a special-request Christmas gift for my wife who had seen it in a gift shop when we all visited last year – a Holland figurine from “It’s a Small World After All.” After all – speaking of ‘after all’ – she’s Dutch. One-hundred percent. Which […]
Westside Story – We Will Miss You Stacie
Hey, before you look at the photo below, please do two things for me. #1. Do not tell my wife or Stacie’s husband about the picture. #2. Give me a chance to explain the photo. I know the photo makes things look a little suspicious. It appears I am trying to avoid those meet the […]
Letter: Living the dream
Sometimes when we push the switch that turns on the gas fireplace in our home, he’ll pretend he’s putting out the flames while aiming an imaginary fire hose. When he’s backing up his rig, ‘beep, beep, beep’ he’ll make the sounds until satisfied with his parking effort. Roaring out of the station (living room) with […]
Home from Home: Auf Wiedersehen!
Another year is reaching its end. To this day, my Friday column “Home from Home” has reached the number of 74 short essays in almost one and a half years of contemplating differences between my native country and my new home country, writing, and sharing it with you. So many of you have reacted in […]