There are a number of things to weigh before giving a pet to a family as a gift during the holiday season, including selecting the right companion.
Hey Taliban man
chase my blues away.
We ain’t in the mood
to play with you dude,
‘cause you ambushed,
shot and killed
Sergeant Larry Rougle
just yesterday.
So, hey Taliban man –
What’s on your mind today?
To be stumped by the very last crossword puzzle you ever will work on, well, that’s defeat, but a small and amusing defeat. Here George Bilgere, a poet from Ohio, gives us a picture of his mother’s last day on earth.
Tracie Lozano photographed these snow scenes during the Nov. 22 and 23 snowstorm in the Diamond Hills development in Maple Valley.
Art students were showing their stuff for the first time Nov. 19 at the Maple Valley Creative Arts Center and it was a dazzling display of line, color and execution.
The Maple Valley Creative Arts Council presented the student art show and the participants were from from Cheryl Renee Long’s Fabulous Flowing Watercolor classes and Michael Lentz’s Figure Drawing class.
Oh man, this is hard to do… I have a confession to make.
I have purchased, I have in my possession and when the mood strikes me just right I do occasionally listen to the newest Katy Perry album.
Please, please don’t tell anybody.
If people find out about this it will obliterate any amount of street cred I may have.
It was a Thanksgiving dinner with all the fixings at the Black Diamond Community Center Wednesday.
The dinner was scheduled for Tuesday. The snowstorm caused the event to be rescheduled, but no one minded. It was an afternoon of good food and conversation.
The Black Diamond Elementary School PTA and Girl Scouts Troop 41624 served up a free Thanksgiving feast Sunday at the school.
Along with dinner there were crafts for the children and musical entertainment.
The snow storm that hit the area beginning Monday cause many traffic problems, but it also created a picture-postcard world of white.
Three area photographers sent in their photographs and are presented in this slide show.
Those of us who live in the country equate the word “development” with displacement, and it has often been said that subdivisions are named for what they replace, like Woodland Glade. Here’s a writer from my state, Nebraska, Stephen Behrendt, with a poem about what some call progress.
Suzanne Forte got her goats, and she loves them.
A herd of goats are having an eating party at the former United Rental property across from the Covington library along with their watchdog, Cooper. The dog makes sure coyotes stay away from the herd.
The 30 goats —mostly pygmy — belong to Suzanne Forte, whose father-in-law, Ron Forte, owns the property. She is married to Ron Forte’s son, Paul Forte.
Maple Valley Fire and Life Safety joined with Kent Regional Fire Authority and the SeaTac Fire Department for a three day training involving simulated vehicle accidents and removing victims, which is known as extrication.
The first poem we published in this column, back in the spring of 2005, was by David Allan Evans, the Poet Laureate of South Dakota, and it’s good to publish another one today, having recently had our five-year anniversary.
My man left today
Down to Lawson mine
To earn the family pay.
Left his new born
This Sunday morn
Before the church bells rang
Never to return again.
With two teenagers who know everything and two adults who are so not cool anymore, finding a family outing where we can all have fun is sometimes a miracle.
Chuck Hardaway was a senior when he spotted Marge Burman, a junior, at Mackenzie High School in Detroit, Mich. in 1950. They were in chemistry class together, and when they saw each other a spark lit a flame that has been burning brightly for five decades.
“The best thing I ever did was picking her,” Chuck said.
Where laughs are laughed
Smiles are smiled
Where total serenity,
Is a gentle harmony
The Maple Valley Creative Arts Council presented its annual fundraising event, “A Pairing of Wine and Art” Friday, Nov. 5, at the Lake Wilderness Lodge.
I’m fond of poems about weather, and I especially like this poem by Todd Davis for the way it looks at how fog affects whatever is within and beneath it.
In the history of the Green River coal fields, there were three major mining disasters: Franklin, Aug. 24, 1894, where 37 miners were suffocated in a coal mine fire – the worst coal-mining disaster in King County; Ravensdale, Nov. 16, 1915, where 31 men perished in a coal mine explosion and 100 years ago the Lawson Mine explosion that took the lives of 16 men Nov. 6, 1910.
