Walking Tacoma

In our neighborhood an eroded monument marks the location of Indian Henry Trail. What are now 84th Street and Steilacoom Blvd were once the ...

Got out to walk the 6th Ave. strip by Jefferson Park this morning. I enjoyed the wildlife.

I feel for the person who never walks outdoors in a storm. The changing light on wet surfaces as the sun fights its way through dog-piling r...

My friend Don and I got out on a gorgeous morning to walk and pray in the Stadium District near downtown Tacoma. We were amazed at what one ...

I found this rose on fire in the Proctor District of N Tacoma. Thankfully, the local Dalmatian fire fish was nearby.

W ith heat and sunshine predicted for the day, I shifted from my North End walk to Downtown Tacoma. As it got toward noon, professional work...

O ur ground hog must have gotten into some mushrooms this year. The battle between winter and spring has kept us all guessing: will we skip ...

Crocus trio in Kaaren's garden. H ere's wishing my city and my readers a joyous Easter. The life, death and bodily resurrection of J...

M y walking has been curtailed this winter by work, winter colds and a minor traffic accident (we were rear-ended), but I had a great time o...

P erhaps you have the same saying in your city that we do in Tacoma: "If you don't like the weather, wait 10 minutes." Januar...

W e have a gorgeous neighborhood along the western edge of our North End. The homes on this slope overlook the Puget Sound and the (now doub...

I 've been walking on the western edge of Tacoma's North End. Today I found a lovely ginkgo tree on N Vassault St and took this phot...

I walked 2.5 miles yesterday in a short window of time between appointments. The north-end neighborhood I visited — or was it the hazy mar...

A lmost 8% of Tacoma's population is Asian. The largest subcategory of our Asian population is Vietnamese, followed by the Korean and Fi...

M y grandson, Micah Rios, came on the Tacoma walk with me today. Well, okay, he rode while his dad, Ted, pushed. Nevertheless he covered abo...

R achel and I walked about 20 miles during our long weekend together in Washington D. C. Our final adventure, before my flight home, took us...

L ike Alex in Everything Is Illuminated, I didn't always appreciate history. Perhaps unlike Alex, though, I always craved meaning and p...

I recently perused several dozen anti-Taliban cartoons and pictorial spoofs on the internet ... and I was not amused. Half the cartoons wer...

Photo by Kaaren Graciano, Arlington, VA, September 2006 Y ou have carpeted beaches with your bodies so your fellows could wrest island hills...

Part of the Smithsonian Castle. R achel and I agreed to prioritize some of the Smithsonian museums on our walks, as there was a spectacular ...