Swan Creek Park
via exit133.com Swan Creek is a massive park, and it’s potential for Tacoma is huge. If you live near it, or have ideas on what it could be, there will be many opportunities for talking about it’s future. This will be the first: Environmental Education Programming Workshop Wednesday, March 2, 2011 1:00 p.m – 4:00 p.m. Family Investment Center, Room 101 1724 E 44th Street, Tacoma WA 98404
These Things I Have Watched
Downton Abbey. It's on PBS. I didn't intend to get hooked on a British show about a rich English estate just before WWI, but I did. Good stuff. Think Gosford Park, without the murder mystery, where servants and the family get equal screen time. Hall Pass. This was a pretty good movie about men behaving badly. It was funny, though some jokes thudded. But it avoided what could have been egregious mistakes. One of its best qualities was its focus on the women. From the previews, it looked like it would all be Owen Wilson and Jason Sudekis, but Jenna Read more…
Jim Knudson
This Saturday we went to a beautiful funeral service for Jim Knudson, the father of one of my good high school friends. He was diagnosed with cancer in August and died, surrounded by his family, this past week. The vigil Friday night and the mass Saturday were at St. Leo Church downtown, and both were very moving. I haven't mentioned any of this here until now, because–for all my time evangelizing social media–it's very uncomfortable to share my grief and my sadness with the open world of the Internet. But at the same time, being silent feels uncomfortable too, as if Read more…
James Monroe | The White House
via whitehouse.gov James Monroe was the last of the Virginian Presidents who were 4 out of first 5 presidents. He was also the last President to have fought in the Revolutionary War. Mostly, we remember Monroe now for the Monroe Doctrine, which asserted that no other power could interfere in the American hemisphere, and for dying on the 4th of July. But the biggest thing that happened during his tenure as president was the Missouri Compromise. (Historical and very short background: Missouri wanted to be a slave state, but free states were worried about the expanding influence they had in Read more…
Did you play with Fashion Plates as a kid? Mary will be at Kings Books craft show Sunday with fashion plate inspired wares!
See the full gallery on Posterous I’ll actually be manning the booth most of the day, so if you want to buy something cute and pink from me, come to Kings Books on Sunday between 12 and 4.
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