After writing this column for more than 25 years, this is still the most requested reprint, so as a gift each year I repeat this tradition and offer the column so it can be sent copyright-free from my Web site, www.binettigarden.com. Just go to the very bottom of the opening Web page.
“The Customer is Always Wrong: The Retail Chronicles,” edited by Jeff Martin, c. 2008, Soft Skull Press, $12.95, 171 pages.
Until June, Betty Filsmire had planned to become a snowbird upon her retirement. Then the former nurse and Boise resident, along with her husband, Clifford, a retired food service industry employee, discovered the Bonney Lake area.
Danny Vernon is a lifelong Elvis fan who makes a living impersonating the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll – and has the pink Cadillac to prove it.
Gail Poole knows her mission in life. And she makes it part of her job.
This is the season of twinkling lights, hot cocoa, trips to our local stores to buy gifts, carols and poinsettias. Instead of enjoying them, we rush around trying to get everything done we think we need to do while trying to buy the “perfect” gift for everyone on our list.
In this troubled economy the promise of quick and easy money is highly appealing, said Suzanne Thompson, an elder law attorney and registered nurse.
She is an advocate for senior citizens, working to protect people who find themselves the victims of fraud.
After working as a registered nurse, she spent two years with the Department of Social and Health Services as an adviser for the organization and as a litigator against people who abuse adults.
“After doing that I realized I could take it to the community,” she said.
After writing this column for more than 25 years, this is still the most requested reprint, so as a gift each year I repeat this tradition and offer the column so it can be sent copywrite free from my Web site, www.binettigarden.com. Just go to the very bottom of the opening Web page.
You knew it was a bad time of year to go to that store, but you went in anyhow and wished you hadn’t.
The lines were long and filled with grumps and kids, both way past nap time. You couldn’t find anything because the place was a mess. The sound system was broken and the same Christmas song was playing over and over and over until you thought you’d scream. You couldn’t wait to get out of there.
Too bad you were the person behind the cash register.
We have entered the Advent season. Have you noticed?
“’Tis the Season!” by Lorna Landvik, c. 2008, Ballantine Books, $22, 226 pages.
During the second week of December we continue with some dirt-cheap ideas for holiday decorating gone green.
Enumclaw Curves owners Sonna and Ken Greer, the staff at their fitness and weight management business and the roughly 300 women who work out there are grinning from ear to ear.
