Watching how a grown person deals with a Cub Scout sales pitch outside a grocery store on a Saturday morning makes for some pretty interesting observations.
One of our local grocery stores has a huge milk and cereal sale a couple of times a year. One of my colleagues and I got to talking about how boxed breakfast cereal played a big part in our nutritional and cultural lives.
With college and high school graduations going on right now, lots of young people will be taking the first steps to joining the work force. Will they succeed? How well do you remember your first job?
Yakimisms are some of the things that we who live and work in the Yakima are find unique to our community. The kind of things that make us chuckle and say "Yeah, that's Yakima!"
This past weekend, my family did what most American families did. Use the unofficial first weekend of summer to try and cram as many activities as possible into three days.
Starting in July, a new law goes into effect allowing all adult Washington-born adoptees to get a copy of their original birth certificate without going through the courts. As an adoptive dad, I'm not sure how I feel about this.
Sunday marked the 34th anniversary of the cataclysmic May 18, 1980, eruption of Mount St. Helens. To me, it does seem like it happened long ago, but some of my experiences of that day remain very fresh in my mind.
It's hard to determine what motivates a person to either excel or just get through life each day. I'm still trying to figure that out for the most part.