Jim Hanna was the featured entertainer at the Maple Valley Creative Arts Council Open Mic Saturday, Jan. 8 at The Leaf.
Hanna played an extended set to kick off the night of entertainment.
Following Hanna was about two hours of music, poetry, story telling, comedy and general fun.
There’s something wonderfully sweet about a wife cutting a husband’s hair, and Bruce Guernsey, who lives in Illinois and Maine, captures it beautifully in this poem.
So what is all this talk about La Nina and the bad weather predicted between now and spring?
To answer this and other questions, I visited the National Weather Service facility at the NOAA station in Seattle.
You know the holiday season is over when people start talking about their New Year’s resolutions. For some it’s almost an annual ritual. In my line of work, I get lots of new business. I also get to see old clients again, but these are reunions I never look forward to.
The average family in the U.S. has roughly two children, but it may be times are changing.
Census data from 1976 indicated 59 percent of women ages 40 to 44 had three or more children, 20 percent had five or more and 6 percent had seven or more.
Death does as death is.
The best laid plans
will not be undertaken
for the undertaker
must not be delayed.
In Iowa in the 1950’s, when we at last heard about pizza, my mother decided to make one for us. She rolled out bread dough, put catsup on it, and baked it. Voila! Pizza! And inexpensive, too. Here’s Grace Cavalieri, a poet and playwright who lives in Maryland, serving something similar and undoubtedly better.
Adult Day Health is available at the Black Diamond Community Center every Friday. Caring staff provide special activities, which include
games, news of the day, painting and crafts, activities geared toward their abilities, nutritious lunches, and reminisce. We ask for $3 donation for lunch.
Time for resolutions; which I try not to make. I feel like making resolutions sets me up for failure and I do not enjoy going into the New Year failing. Life throws out enough challenges to overcome without adding my own.
Maple Valley Library calender of events for January 2011
Some of us are fortunate to find companions among the other creatures, and in this poem by T. Alan Broughton of Vermont, we sense a kind of friendship without dependency between our species and another.
Ask 10 parents of successful children what they did right, and you’re likely to get 10 different answers. There’s no one way to raise a child. Just look at all the books on the subject. Yet get those same parents in a room together, and they would probably have a lot in common.
A number of readers have sent me e-mails in recent days with inquiries about obesity surgery. The heightened interest in the subject seems to stem from news reports about a pharmaceutical company, Allergan, which has asked the Food and Drug Administration to modify its existing policy on surgical procedures for the purpose of weight loss.
Dace’s Rock ‘n’ More Music Academy Rockcitals featured a series of bands from the Maple Valley music academy Saturday, Dec. 18, at the Maple Valley Creative Arts Center.
Tami Bridges was inspired by the selflessness of her younger sister.
“She told me that she didn’t want any presents for Christmas this year,” Bridges recalled. “She wanted us to get presents for a family that she adopted.”
Bridges, a 2007 Tahoma High graduate, decided to do something similar.
I realized a while back that there have been over 850 moons that have gone through their phases since I arrived on the earth, and I haven’t taken the time to look at nearly enough of them. Here Molly Fisk, a California poet, gives us one of those many moons that you and I may have failed to observe.
When she cries on my shoulder
I just want to hold her
and let her tears roll down,
gently roll down my back
then become part of my being.
Allied Waste suggests a list of “Naughty and Nice” recycling tips to help make recycling a breeze for its customers.
The company stated even for diligent and dedicated recyclers, holiday decorations and gift wrap may present a challenge.
Here’s a poem by Christopher Todd Matthews that I especially like for the depiction of the little boy who makes more of a snowball than we would have expected was there. This poet lives in Lexington, Virginia.
‘War, Love and Life’a merging of poetry, music, performance and dance at Maple Valley Creative Arts Center | Slide Show
