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The Slice: Your usual or will you be pitching a fit?
“It’s fun to take people there I want to impress,” she wrote.
But not everyone is.
“My daughter interprets it as I must have made a scene at one time or another.”
Re: Learning to fly: “It was one of the best decisions of my life,” wrote Bob Lombard. “As they say, flying is not a hobby it’s a disease. I have been flying for 50 years and love every moment. Not just the fantastic experience of seeing everything from a different perspective but even the planning for each flight. Understanding the weather and how it will affect your flight makes watching and understanding the effects of weather your second hobby.”
Nancy Lokken was taking flying lessons on the West Side years ago when she flew over her house and saw numerous cars outside her home and people congregated at the swimming pool.
She cut the lesson short and soon arrived back home to discover a large crowd of teenagers wearing sheets.
Her own kids, who assumed she would be gone all day, were having a toga party.
Slice answer: Kath’ren Bay-Higdon saw the question about people in your family regarding you as an idiot because of your politics.
“I have two middle-aged children with the same genetics and childhood environment,” she wrote.
One lives in Washington. The other lives in Idaho.
One approves of their mom’s politics. One is mystified by her politics. “But he still loves me even though, to him, I am a political idiot.”
How to feel old yet proud: A sharp, personable young man who was in The Slice a couple of times back when he was in grade school is now in his second year of college in the Midwest. He will be joining the S-R this summer as an intern.
His college roommate is also coming to Spokane. They are going to need a place to live – commuting from the local lad’s home up near Sandpoint wouldn’t really work, so feel free to send me any housesitting leads.
Warm-up question: Do you consider the ear-clipping and other surgical alterations certain purebred dogs undergo to be mutilation?
Today’s Slice question: How old do you have to be to worry that not shaving on the weekend will make you look like you are going for a “Miami Vice” look?
Write The Slice at P. O. Box 2160, Spokane, WA 99210; call (509) 459-5470; email pault@spokesman.com. It’s always good to remember that a lot of people don’t care about the things you care about.