"He's like the country's grandfather," My Mother said to me When I asked about that old bald guy On our black an...

The McDowell Family Album is something of a mystery. This family has never been real big on recording their history. In fact, during t...

I have a couple old puffy Victorian-era family photo albums, both tracing back to my Mom's relatives. Some of the photos are tintypes...

When I was just a lad, in 1964 My Mom looked at the TV set And recoiled in total horror. A crabby looking pumpkin face Had fille...

"Centralia, Washington, and Mt. Rainier. Centralia, founded in 1852 by a freed Negro slave by the name of George Washington, is i...

This year for Christmas my Mom gave me a book of selections from the pen of Mad cartoonist Mort Drucker. When I asked her how she knew I...

Before middle schools we had junior high schools, grades 7-9. In Olympia there were two junior high schools, Washington and Jefferson. I sta...

I grew up with 24 uncles and aunts and out of all them, my Aunt Pat Pearson (1922-2007) was the most unusual. And in my family, that is say...

The Windermere Real Estate headquarters in Centralia, Washington In the early 20th century this was the home of my great-grandparents, ...

Obama/Biden, www.barackobama.com On the curl: 29625 c2008, Tigereye Design 800-844-3729 Another button my Mom found and donated t...

Mondale Ferraro On the curl: G.H. Stamp Works, Aberdeen, Wash. My Mom dug this out last week and contributed to the visual cause

"It's like all wars, I guess. The undertakers are winning. And the politicians who talk about the glory of it. And the old men w...

Winged Victory Monument Olympia, Washington This WWI memorial is in the center of the Washington State capitol campus. In the backgro...

My Mother recently cleaned out one of her closets and found a couple old drawings of mine. Spring! was drawn, I'm betting, about 1984. T...

When Michael Dowers told me he was going to put this book together, I had a difficult time imagining what the final product was going to loo...

Calling A to Z! That is, calling Hank Arakelian and Joe Zabel! If you guys are out there please drop me a line. I'm interested in postin...

Dogs was a regular digest size book designed for the earliest of readers and published by the Olympia School District. The connection was t...