It was marked down. And it needed help. A lot of help. And it didn’t help that in moving it into the house the unwieldy, top-heavy, glass cabinet got away from me and tipped off the porch and crashed to the rocks bordering the garden below where shattered glass told its future: firewood. Nope. My […]
Lakewood
Westside Story – A Leg Up
I have always had an interest in human behavior, which motivated me to study psychology and sociology in high school and college. My interest in human behavior is one of the reasons I became a police officer. The big question we often face is, what makes people behave the way they do? For instance; after […]
Westside Story – On The Wrong Track
Recently I have seen a ton of articles in our local papers including The Suburban Times talking about the advantages and disadvantages of trains racing through our Lakewood neighborhoods at close to 80 miles per hour. The last article I am aware of was published in The Suburban Times on Friday, September 21, 2018. The […]
Home from Home: School Days
What do I remember from my first day of school in Germany ever? A big candy-filled cardboard cone, throngs of people seated in the gym to attend a welcoming program and to listen to the principal, then entering a classroom and being pretty much clueless about anything that was going on. I was able to […]
Susanne Bacon reads at The Sock Peddlers
Are you into yarns? Then this upcoming October event should be right down your alley! For local author Susanne Bacon will be reading her third Wycliff novel from cover to cover at The Sock Peddlers LLC in Lakewood. This reading event is already the third of its kind and has been requested for a while, […]
FAB Fest Features Tami Oldham Ashcraft
September 1983 is a month, Tami Oldham Ashcraft’s life changed forever. Avid sailors, she and her fiancé were on their way to deliver a yacht from Tahiti to San Diego when Hurricane Raymond hit. Her fiancé washed overboard, Tami was badly injured during the capsizing of the boat. She survived 41 days under jury rig […]
FAB Fest Features Charming Childhood
Do you remember your favorite children’s book? I do. The beautiful illustrations told the story as much as its author’s voice. And it made me a lifetime reader. You can do the same for your children, grandchildren, in fact any children you love, if you give them one such treasure that catches their attention and […]
Lee Oskar stars at FAB Fest
Billboard Magazine once crowned him “Instrumentalist of the Year”, internationally he is known as one of the world’s best harmonica players, a founding member of the band “WAR”, an incredibly versatile fusion jazz composer, and the producer of a top-notch line of harmonicas: Lee Oskar. Fewer people might know him also as the gifted painter […]
Home from Home: Hiking
When I was a kid in Germany, my family went off hiking to the Black Forest or to the Swabian Alb, low mountain ranges close to my hometown, Stuttgart, on a regular basis. Either a newspaper clip or a hiking book was placed in my mother’s shoulder bag, and usually they were day trips. I […]