I was raised in the shadow of Paine Field, near Everett, Washington. I was in 9th grade when the population of our school exploded with the arrival of what I assumed was the entire transplanted student population of Wichita, Kansas. And I stood on our deck in December...
Lucille Downer’s “death notice” broadcast prominently on Jack’s Country Store reader board last week, directly above notice of a sale on Walla Walla sweet onions, definitely caught my attention. Not so much because Lucille passed, at 93, but...
I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve had another play accepted by the Peninsula Players for their annual “One-act Festival.” This one, “A Conversation with Mother,” (a comedy) practically wrote itself, as I started hurriedly, and clandestinely, jotting notes down during...
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet is 77 today. He was born on July 6, 1935, in a small village in eastern Tibet. Since 1959, the Dalai Lama has lived in Dharmsala, India. He fled Tibet after a failed 1959 uprising against Chinese rule. About the time The...
Gramps always said that if you got the first cutting of hay baled and into the barn by the fourth of July, you could get another one in by Labor Day. He always said that, but I don’t recall him ever actually doing it. It’s not that he procrastinated. Not exactly. More...
