crates | December 24, 2008
As I have said many times before, I often use this forum to explore certain subjects about which I am totally ignorant. I recently became curious about justice and mercy. Below is the definition of both from the free online dictionary: Justice: 1. The quality of being just; fairness. 2. a. The principle [...]
crates | November 13, 2008
I was watching two small children with their father at the coffee shop this morning. The tiny little girl reminded me of my daughter when she was small. When the father left he had the little girl on his arm and led the little boy by the hand. I began remembering when my daughter was [...]
crates | June 29, 2008
I heard a person arguing that the Europeans had taught the North American Native Americans this practice, and although I had heard both sides to the question, I thought that I would look the question up just to satisfy my own curiosity. I’m sure you’ve heard it before: the North American indigenous people were taught [...]
crates | June 10, 2008
No…no, I’m really not picking on Fife, Washington despite my previous unflattering comments about this town in the past (see Adventures at the KFC in the Benighted Berg, Fife, WA on May 10, 2008 and Fife Wa–The City that Sold its Soul to the Devil, Dec. 27, 2006), but I simply could not refrain from [...]
crates | May 3, 2008
Well, I am still making plans for the Wedding in Hawaii! So many loose ends to tie together. For example I found that the short hop from Honolulu to Kona was on Aloha airlines which went out of business. Expedia, with whom I made the resevations, basically said it was up to me to [...]
crates | December 8, 2007
I recently traveled to the nearby town of Puyallup, driving along a road that paralleled the Puyallup River. I noticed that the rich bottomland along the river in the town of Fife, that had once been daffodil, berry or vegetable farms were now covered with apartments, homes and businesses. The homes were built right up [...]