I ended last week’s chapter of the sacred texts known as Don’t Rush Me (the column) thusly: So, I have been hearing about an effort afoot to open up and change the Michigan Constitution to put in verbiage stating something like, ‘It is unconstitutional to discriminate against anyone based on their sexuality, gender identity . […]
I have never claimed to be the sharpest knife in the drawer, the brightest bulb in the box, toughest kid on the block, the prettiest face in the mirror, nor the wittiest clown under the big top, BUT . . . my heart flittered a wee bit this weekend whilst reading reader e-mail. Maybe a […]
You know, I don’t even know why I started writing — no, thinking about writing — this week’s column. It is just way, too danged early to write about national politics (since this is a community publication). But, here I go. If you wanna? turn the page, you have my blessings. Turn freely without guilt, […]
March 11, 2007 is a day burned into my memory. Much like Aug. 16, 1977. I remember those dates with sadness. I don’t remember too many other dates, anniversaries or birthdays. I am a frivolous sort. * * * I knew it was the time of year when the governmental powers that be would once […]
A few years ago, right here in the hallowed halls of Don’t Rush Me-dom, I opined about this dude. This guy who is like a Detroit Lions superfan. His name, Denny Arney. I was just thinking about Denny this past Sunday, as your Detroit Lions finally broke into the winning column by downing the dreaded […]
While fall in Michigan is really a thing of beauty, brilliant fired oranges, reds and yellows in the trees, a sky of blue and plaid shirts of flannel, it is also kinda a sad time, too. At least for me. It’s the time of the year I say, ‘Fair thee well? to my gardens of […]
It must be genetic. There has to be something in my Deoxyribonucleic acid that makes me such an expert. My blue-collar dad was always fussy about how his clothes fit. The buttons on his shirt had to line up with his belt buckle and zipper on his trousers. I think he called it his ‘gig […]
For the past — oh, three, four or five months my knees have hurt. First one, the right, then the other (which, if you’re keep track, would be the left). And, well, it kinda bums me out, because I had started walking like four days a week and was getting really good at it! I […]
Multicolored and whimsical clown cars twirl about, zigging and zagging pounding the walls inside my skull; piped in between my ears, circus music swirls around, skimming across the fast becoming smoother ridges of the glob of goo that once was my gray matter. My addled brain only gets addleder the more I observe the farce […]
‘I am embarrassed,? the woman on the other end of my office phone told me . . . and then she told me her concerns. Hmm? Well damn. * * * I will be the first to admit when the school bells commence to ring, announcing the start of a new school year, I feel […]