DOES IT TAKE A TWIT TO TWEET?
I have loathed Twitter long before 45 used it to slip into the Oval Office. That said, I have a Twitter account which I registered so no one else could use my name. I’ve never used it, so please don’t… (READ MORE)
My 3 Cents – Friendship on the Line
My 3 Cents – Friendship on the Line The idea of comfort food has become passé in this ever conscious age of health and wellbeing. What once was solved with a chocolate chip cookie (or six) has given pause to… (READ MORE)
My 3 Cents “Being a Journalist”
Being a Journalist After a certain point in life, careers crisscross and, if you’re lucky, complement one another. I was educated as a teacher, something I always aspired to as a young student. But it wasn’t long before my career… (READ MORE)
My 3 Cents “Why Art?”
Why Art? I have a meeting soon with my State Representative. As a Washington State Commissioner for the Arts [ArtsWA] I had met with Norma Smith twice before; once on Arts & Heritage Day in Olympia in 2016 for maybe… (READ MORE)
My 3 Cents “Marching Onward”
“Marching Onward” I’m claustrophobic, so what was I doing shoulder to shoulder with tens of thousands of women, children, and men on Saturday morning the 21st of January, 2017? The last time (and I think the only time) I ever… (READ MORE)
My 3 Cents “Hobby Scmhobby”
I first heard that my writing would be classified as a “hobby” months ago and the very idea has been eating away at me since. The classification was revealed by the tax instructor at a writers’ seminar. “If you don’t… (READ MORE)
My 3 Cents
LISTS I’m a list maker. For more than twenty years I’ve kept a reporter’s notepad next to my computer where I jot the date neatly in the upper right hand corner and then precede to list my day’s activities; one… (READ MORE)
My 3 Cents
Positive/Negative In this digital age when more pictures are being snapped from phones and then shared, insuring someone somewhere will see the presumed noteworthy shots, it may be hard to imagine what actual photographic negatives look like. I’ve rifled through… (READ MORE)
My 3 Cents
Maybe Maybe it was the striped T-shirt. Every little boy growing up has a striped T. Of course, once the teen year’s approach stripes give way to rock concert logos or nondescript hoodies. Maybe it was the oversized glasses… (READ MORE)
Mr 3 Cents
THE “S” WORD Have you noticed lately there is a bombardment of single letters bandied about in print and on the air waves? I could list them alphabetically a, b, d, f, g, m, n, o, p, s but… (READ MORE)