Those who read me regularly, or who know me, know I write from the heart. I feel. I try to be impartial. I hear, I see, I read, I listen and I process. You may not know that sometimes I process for a lo-o-o-o-ng time. You probably don’t know I only spend about an hour […]
You have assumed correctly, yes, I did not win the Powerball last week as I am still writing and newspapering. That said, I had my hopes way up high, positive good luck and fortune would smile heavily upon my tickets. Alas, t’was not to be. No setting up foundations to help those in need. No […]
Usually by this time of the year I have hand-shoveled, oh, about a million feet of snow off my driveway and the sidewalk in front of and past my crappy old house. I mean, come on, it is mid January in Michigan — the Winter Wonderland State, we have snow. Not so much this winter […]
Yikes. It seems like it’s been a year since I’ve written you all! (Okay, that’s a turn on an old joke. I apologize. Sorta.) When I finish this, the first Don’t Rush Me of 2016, I will only have 51 more to write. And, when I look at it that way, it seems kinda daunting. […]
Call me kooky, but son-of-a-gun, where did 2015 go? Maybe it’s the weather phenom we have experienced this December (read: 50 and 60 degree weather, green grass, budding lilacs and oh my . . .) For many 2015 was bittersweet, some good, some sad and lots of changes. For me, it was a year with […]
Gosh . . . I don’t know . . . for at least a decade, I have set aside December columns for writing about Christmas. Christmas past, Christmas with the kids, Christmas as a kid; Christmas memories, music and musings. I’ve laid wood on fruitcake and pontificated on all sorts of Christmasy crap. I’ve let […]
Peace on earth and good will to men. Holiday seasons always seem to get mucked up because of some whack-job somewhere is hellbent on destruction. I know it is a hard concept for me to grasp, but, the world isn’t on Dandy Don Rush’s blue-sky and sunshine schedule. It outta be, but alas, it ain’t […]
To all the Scrooges out there — stop being cranky! To all the Grinches out there — take five from your grumpiness! To all those smarty old snooties with their beaks in the air (and you know who you are, you who are too high and mighty to enjoy a little goodwill and peace) smile […]
Gather ’round kiddies. Huddle close together and listen up. It’s December in the year of our Lord, 2015. We had a snow last month, your Detroit football Lions, won a Thanksgiving game and the 10 day weather forecast for Southeastern Michigan has temperatures solidly in the 40s. Hot damn and deck them halls with boughs […]
I will admit it, I am emotionally retarded. To many I am distant. Stoic. I have shared my soul with only a few precious people. It’s not that I don’t feel, I am human. I just don’t share well with others what is inside my coat of armor.I am impartial.Balanced.I am forever calm (one even […]