Spiritual Smart Aleck

As I am writing this, it is May 20, 2011. According to some people who have been getting a lot of press lately, the end of the world is supp...

Our friend Libbie Anthony (that's her on the left in the picture) turns 70 today, May 10, 2011. She sent an email to many people remindi...

Dear Allysan, When I started writing a column for the Vashon Loop nine years ago I wrote about you and titled the column, “Grandma's Dia...

It's been a good week for doggerel here at Casa Tuel. It started out innocently enough. It began as I was digging out buttercups: The bu...

Megan Belia died this week. We hoped she'd have a little longer, but nope. So now we tell the stories. A few years ago as we first got t...

This story is a lie. It is a lie because I cannot remember the detailed true separate stories I am amalgamating here into one, untrue story....

Drawing by Rick Tuel Smart Aleck note: this column dates from 2003. Like everyone else on Vashon Island, I am sick and did not feel up to wr...