By Pat Cashman
A couple of years ago, I was emceeing a big medical conference in Spokane. It’s not necessarily important to mention Spokane, but I can’t resist name-dropping.
During a morning breakfast in a fancy hotel,…MORE
West Seattle - Features
How to facilitate needed change
Thu, 03/19/15
By Georgie Bright Kunkel
No, I don’t really want to return to the age of dinosaurs because according to the experts there weren’t any people in the beginning. But I would like to improve conditions in this techie world of ours. You have…MORE
Pat's View: “Signs of the Times”
Mon, 03/16/15
By Pat Cashman
There is a rest stop near Ellensburg that we always seem to stop at when traveling east of the mountains. I don’t know who planned the location, but it seems to be positioned exactly in the right place at the right time…MORE
Georgie's View: Why not share the earth with everyone?
Thu, 03/12/15
by Georgie Bright Kunkel
Our profit making society has evidently run out of ways to make profits so more ways must be created. It used to be that businesses were created to meet a need but now business creates needs and society is enticed…MORE
Pat's View: “Not Home Cookin’”
Tue, 03/10/15
by Pat Cashman
The ”Year of the Goat” began on the Chinese calendar a few weeks ago. Yet, I still habitually find myself writing ‘Year of the Horse’ on my checks. Back during the Year of the Rat, The Wall Street Journal---a newspaper…MORE
ArtsWest’s Chinglish is funny and refreshing
Fri, 03/06/15
By Amanda Knox
Annie Lareau was right; David Henry Hwang’s Chinglish is not an easy play to put on.
There’s the fact that the script suggests multiple and various settings that the small, ArtsWest stage must somehow accommodate.…MORE
Ladies of the Borobudur is the featured book Friday in Westwood Village
Thu, 03/05/15
The next presenter in the Southwest Seattle Historical Society monthly “Words, Writers & West Seattle” series is Barbara Haines Howett, Ladies of the Borobudur (Outskirts Press, 2007, genre: adult fiction).
On Friday, March. 6, 2015,…MORE
Pets, downsizing and more
Thu, 03/05/15
By Georgie Bright Kunkel
What a world! A world of human beings alongside the other creatures in the animal kingdom. The so-called lower animals have become owned or managed by humans for the most part. City life has restricted the space…MORE
Pat's View: “Walking the Walk”
Mon, 03/02/15
By Pat Cashman
I was walking around a couple of days ago when someone shouted from over a block away. I turned and saw a distant figure waving wildly and running my way. It was an acquaintance I hadn’t seen in years. “Cashman!” he…MORE
Love the curmudgeonly Artichoke!
Mon, 03/02/15
By Kathryn Kingen
Most vegetables are friendly. They have bright colors, smooth shapes and are delightful to pick and prepare. They are friendly, even gregarious — but not the artichoke. This standoffish veg doesn't want to be sociable at…MORE
