How cool is that? In this busy Christmas shopping season, who gets reserved priority parking, right by the main entrance? Yep, those who drive a pickup. 🙂
Lakewood
Home from Home: Pick-up and drop-off
People are talking about how divided this country is, and I see it every day. Not just in a sense of politics – and you know this column was never meant to make any political statements. I find that there is one part of the population who drops off and another who picks up.
Film Review: Fantasia
The films that have been made by The Walt Disney Company in the 85 years of its existence number in the hundreds, and you’d be hard pressed to find one film that everyone agrees is the best. However, there is one Disney film I feel doesn’t get brought up enough in conversations concerning the best […]
Surviving the Holidays After Life Changing Events on Swimming Upstream
How to Handle the holidays after a big life change is the topic of the new edition of the internet radio show, Swimming Upstream. This week, authors Bonnie King and Susanne Bacon join host Dorothy Wilhelm to talk about how they managed to continue to find hope and the way to a rewarding life after […]
Letter: Soon it’ll be time for New Year’s Resolutions
On the rare mornings now that the sun appears over the top of the hill, the edgings on the stairs – as seen from my desk surveillance camera where I sit, my hands cradling a cup of coffee in order to stay warm in the otherwise unheated office – become silver ribbons, horizontal icicles, shooting […]
Ferguson joins Lakewood First Lions Club
Robin Ferguson, center (below), recently became a member of the Lakewood First Lions Club. Welcoming her were Jan McCaffrey (left) and Lynda Jackson. Ferguson is a retired LPN who has lived in Lakewood for the past 27 years.
Home from Home: Castles
Let’s face it: We are all more or less fascinated with castles. In Europe we almost take them for granted. Our ancestors have been exploited during their built. And though the US have managed to break away from aristocracy long before Europeans, there are still quite a few architectural structures that imitate the grandeur of […]
Letter: It’s a good question – what are public officials for?
“The Town Council of Eatonville asked voters to provide direction with a thumbs up or down on retail pot sales,” writes the editorial board (eb) of the Tacoma News Tribune (TNT) in its November 28 edition.
Westside Story – Nuns Seek To Break Habit of Silence & Secrecy
Recently I wrote a column, not because of any hatred for the Catholic Church, but because of my decades’ long love of the Catholic Church. I was careful to not attack the Catholic Church. I did attack some glaring problems that plague the Church.