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By Pat Cashman

A few months ago in this space I wrote about the side effects that come with certain medications and other products. This column is sort of a part two of that---although if this one seems even more incoherent than usual…MORE

By Georgie Bright Kunkel

It would be exciting to obtain a time machine and set it to ages past in order to observe the dating rituals from time immemorial. Then I got to thinking, maybe there was a time when there was no dating. Maybe the…MORE

information from Twelfth Night Productions


This long running Off-Broadway absurdist Picasso at the Lapin Agile by Steve Martin is a comedy which places Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso in a Parisian cafe in 1904, just before the renowned…MORE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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