In the ’50s, there was not the dizzying array of cocktail choices of today. The only beer we had on tap was Olympia and Rainier. Pabst Blue Ribbon and Heidelberg came in bottles, and Budweiser was new, in a 16-ounce can.
It’s July 25, a muggy Friday afternoon. A man in a red shirt stands behind a folding table in the corner of a parking garage underneath an anonymous, glass, cubic, office building in Bellevue.
I woke up at 3 a.m. one recent morning. It was as though there was something I needed to understand that was just off the corner of my conscious, and I didn’t know how to pull it into full view.
The July 12 [Madison Park Days] picnic and parade event, sponsored by the Madison Park Business Association, attracted many — both young and old.
Birthdays are a great way to celebrate the joy of life. It is also a day where friends and family are able to recognize and honor the fact that you were blessed to turn one year older.
I feel it is truly a blessing when an aging person continues to have sharp memories, can enjoy a good conversation and has rock-solid reasoning skills.
Windermere Real Estate’s Madison Park office (4015 E. Madison St.) is collecting shoes from Aug. 1 through 15 for its “Kicks for Kids” campaign.
McGilvra Elementary School (1617 38th Ave. E.) may be out on summer break, but its PTA is still hard at work planning the events that help the school run.
Sweetwater School (308 Dewey Place E.), a new preschool in Madison Valley, will open this fall under the direction of Patricia Overy, founder of The Valley School, also in Madison Valley.
When I told my neighbor we are selling our house, she mentioned that she knows a few people who might be interested in doing what she termed a “private sale,” before it’s officially on the market.
Local filmmaker Taylor Guterson shot his debut feature film, 2011’s “Old Goats,” for all of $5,000. He used three good friends of his to depict the challenges and rewards of growing older.
Jocelyn Crawford is crouched in a hotel lobby chair in Texas dreading the next day. She has traveled all the way from Capitol Hill in Seattle to compete in a national swim meet, but she is sick.
The third-annual Madison Valley Bastille Bash on July 12 brought out the best of Seattle’s European Village with French-inspired food, shopping and entertainment.
