Story & Photo – Joseph Boyle This article is about keeping your financial house in good order. When you retire, please, please, please take a good long look at your retirement plan settlement options. Do the right, ethical, smart and loving thing during your decision making process.
Westside Story
Westside Story – Retirement Week 1
Story – Joseph Boyle It has been one week since I started my new life serving our community as a retired guy. Someone has to do this important work. I am doing my part by hanging out at Starbucks with no visible means of support. My friends are hoping I have some invisible means of […]
Westside Story – A Train Ride
Story & Photo – Joseph Boyle I can’t believe it. It seems like just yesterday when I started my career with the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department. On Friday, March 29, 2013 at 4:30 pm I walked out the door of the County City Building – Sheriff’s Headquarters for the last time. For 8440 days, my career […]
Westside Story –The Dalai Lama, Words of Wisdom
Story & Photo – Joseph Boyle Early this week I was wandering around Graham – Kapowsin High School. I do that because I have a wandering-around job.
Westside Story – A Dozen Days
Story & Photo – Joseph Boyle Only a dozen days and my work life will end. They call it retirement. It does not seem that long ago when I was just an 11-year-old kid in the neighborhood. That is the age when I asked my dad an important question that is on every young boy’s mind.
Westside Story – The Science Guy
Story & Video – Joseph Boyle Even those who know me well are not aware that in the early 1960s an undergraduate future psychologist tested and measured my young college student brain. It was determined that I had a rare highly evolved scientific brain, much like that of Albert Einstein (b. 1879 d. 1955) or Nicolaus […]
Westside Story – Where he is, is where I was
Story – Joseph Boyle, Photo – Hayley Austin Just this past January 31, 2013, I attended a Law Enforcement Academy Officer Graduation at Washington State Criminal Justice Academy in Burien, Washington. The ceremony was meaningful to me for two reasons. Reason Number 1 – OUT WITH THE OLD: I have been blessed with a law enforcement career, which […]
Westside Story – Chevron News Assault
Story & Video – Joseph Boyle Yesterday I pulled into the Chevron gas station at 108th St SW and Bridgeport Way SW for the mundane, but necessary purpose of filling my gas tank. We used to call them Chevron Service Stations, because they actually provided service. Back in 1959 I started buying gas when we […]
Westside Story – Education & Robots
Story & Video – Joseph Boyle Recently in the course of my job, I interviewed a 15-year-old kid. I asked him how he was doing in school. He said, “Fine.” I had spoken to his school counselor, so I knew better. I asked a follow-up question. “Are you getting straight A’s?” His head hung down […]