John: Browse The Strips

Saturday March 8, 2025

Lynn's Comments: This is a story that covered some painful territory. Like so many others, we fell prey to a fancy sales pitch and wound up with a timeshare we didn’t want. The salesman here was as close to the real guy as I could remember—and he did recognize himself.

Tuesday March 11, 2025

Lynn's Comments: There is an art to the timeshare sales pitch and there are several layers to the “sell.” No matter how hard you try to argue against it, you can be coerced into believing you are making an investment.

Thursday March 13, 2025

Lynn's Comments: In exchange for a dry sandwich, we were being pushed into making a $30,000 “investment.” One of the many things they don’t tell you is that the pitch is for a one-week timeshare. They make it sound like two. You will also pay an exorbitant maintenance fee.

Saturday March 15, 2025

Lynn's Comments: I didn’t let on here that we actually did buy a timeshare and we used it for many years—until the maintenance fee was more than the price of a round trip flight plus a week at an all-inclusive in Cancun! In all the years we went to Cabo San Lucas, we rarely saw evidence that the unit had been maintained.

Monday March 24, 2025

Lynn's Comments: Our dog, Willy, stayed at a great kennel. The owners often kept the easy-going animals in their house with them, so Willy’s stay was a lot of fun. They had kennels, of course, in their “dogominium,” and their feline guests stayed in the “kitty-condo.” It was quite the comfy place.

Friday March 28, 2025

Lynn's Comments: I once watched my aunt’s German Shepherd swallow an entire can of dog food in one gulp. To slow him down, I gave him his next meal in tiny chunks. This he also managed to knock back in one gulp. I wondered why the rush…until I took a whiff of the stuff. I wouldn’t have wanted to taste it either!

Wednesday April 2, 2025

Lynn's Comments: Go to YouTube and search for “I’m Five” by Danny Kaye. When I turned five, even though I was a girl, that was my song! Don’t underestimate the memory of a five-year-old. This one has lasted for over 70 years!

Sunday April 27, 2025

Lynn's Comments: This is how I learned to ride a two-wheeled bike. I was 12 before I was allowed to have one. My mother kept saying I wasn’t old enough to have a bike, even though my friends were all pedaling their way to school. If she had only told me that we couldn’t afford one; if she’d been honest with me, I might have understood. To admit that we weren’t able to afford a secondhand bike was such an embarrassment for her that it was many, many years before she told me the truth.

Sunday May 11, 2025

Lynn's Comments: Long before our marriage collapsed, it was the tiny, insignificant annoyances that got to both of us. This might have been a clue. I am now very aware of my own annoying habits, which allows me to overlook the tiny things my partner does to annoy me. Well, I try!!!

Sunday May 25, 2025

Lynn's Comments: My friend Cecily is a talented doll maker. When she wrote, illustrated and published a children’s book, I showcased it in the strip. I have known Cecily since we worked shoulder-to-shoulder together in an animation studio in Vancouver. We were both in our 20s and newly married. With much in common, we became great friends. Time and serendipity separated us and then brought us back together again 30 years later when I put her name in the paper. Her cousin saw the strip and connected us again. Within days, we arranged to meet and did so in a tearful, happy reunion at the Seattle airport. Cecily was working on this book at the time. We are still in touch and still good friends.

Sunday June 8, 2025

Lynn's Comments: Action was the hardest to draw. I wanted to put the “camera” in different positions, different angles, so that the motion was exaggerated. Believe it or not, I used photographs of football players in action to get these poses. It was worth the effort.