Tacoma

Peg and I stopped in on a whim. We didn’t know what to expect. We’ve dined within several yards of this new Sixth Avenue (& South Pine) restaurant many times. Next door is the Original Pancake House. The menu on the wall is fairly easy to read. Since Peg ordered fries, I ordered a Caesar […]

I’m not sure when I actually saw the film The Shop Around the Corner, but I know I had seen Ninotchka by the time I finished sixth grade. Ninotchka was directed by Ernst Lubitsch. So was The Shop Around the Corner. Both movies are black and white classics and both films hatched musicals based on […]

What a nice evening of fun. Over two hundred people gathered at the Seaport Museum for dinner, dance, and lots of laughter. We loved the newly renovated Foss Waterway Seaport Museum on Dock Street with its walls of glass. I resigned from the Tacoma Executives Association about sixteen months ago. I thought I would re-new […]

We’ve all seen him trying to catch the roadrunner using rocket propelled skates, painting fake tunnels on rock walls, and running off into space from a cliff and standing there until he notices he is completely without support. He never catches the roadrunner, so why should we copy him? The coyote is a survivor, and […]

“I came here because I knew you would not turn me away.” The care givers, health professionals, and community volunteers had heard those desperate words many times. It was almost the rallying cry of the two hundred people who filled the hall. My wife and I were there in Renton to see our friend Jan […]

I’m not talking about major life changing things I should have done, or bad choices that I did make, but most regrets for me are for the little things in life that I could have done. You know, the little things that strike you in the middle of a conversation, or a song on the […]

When I joined the Transportation Club of Tacoma in 2013, one of the first people I met was the Executive Director, Gary Gieser. He soon had me volunteering to be the newsletter editor, which I still am. The Transportation Clubs of Tacoma and Seattle work closely with the Port of Tacoma and Port of Seattle. […]

I don’t recall the first time I actually saw it, but I’m guessing maybe six months ago. We have a daylight basement home facing Vashon Island and this one corner of the south wall is possibly landfill. We’re the second owners of the home. Perhaps, a squirrel uncovered the red rubber ball as it was […]

Peggy and her friend Joanne took advantage of an art tour of studios along Opera Alley in downtown Tacoma on Saturday. My job was to drop them off, pick them up, and then take them to lunch at Pacific Grill. I was warned that the art tour might only take forty-five minutes or so. I […]