Hey, it’s Labor Day weekend and I wanna? take a break . . . so here is an oldie but a goodie from 2004. Read, smile and I hope, enjoy. — DPR * * * Sept. 1, 2004 — Last week I got some great news. News that had me whistling happy tunes, snapping my […]
Don’t know what it is about this time of the year, but every year ? oh, for the last 15 years or so, the end of August, through the rest of fall, I pick to sew later, seeds. I like collecting and drying peas and beans and tomato seeds for next year’s garden. I like […]
You know how it is sometimes. You have time to think and your mind will take you on a wonderful odyssey — ones full of excitement, danger and sometimes even love (which is fraught with so much peril that it is the Number One subject of nearly all books ever published!) Since the end of […]
Days of glory? If I harken back to those thrilling days of yesteryear to when I was as a young man of 14 to 18 years old, it seems to me this week of this month always brought me a fair amount of consternation. The end of the summer vacation was eminent. The nights longer; […]
Like every other opined communicator out there in America, I too was gonna? write about the Republican presidential debate which took place ast week. Then I said, ‘why?? I didn’t even watch it — those who did just wanted to make quick, 140 character snarky remarks for their own amusement. Not I. So . . […]
All I can say is, ‘Wow.? (Well, that ain’t true. If that is all I had to say on the subject I am about to elaborate on, it would be a very short column, indeed.) Holy cow! I saw some of the worst driving ever last week. Moreover, it was reckless and dangerous driving I […]
So, I took off a week from work last week — one of about nine or 10 single weeks I have taken off in the last 30 years. I had no plans other than to work on This Crappy Old House. I thought I could patch stucco on the outside of the 99-year-old home. I […]
So I’m sitting at my desk, high up (22-steps-to-a-new-you up) in the Ivory Tower of Clarkston last Monday ? just sitting, minding my own bees wax and plotting my evil plans of inciting a residential uprising (and if you ask city council, trying to tear down Clarkston is all I wanna do with my life) […]
For as long as I can remember I have always had a fascination with words. Tis true. Some words I like to hear ? I enjoy their sound, the way the vibrations tingle my little ear bones. Some words I like to say; I like the feel of them as they stumble out and off […]
I consulted my writing muse and asked for a topic for this week’s Don’t Rush Me. . . . We batted ideas back and forth. We touched on hot topics like gay marraige, July 4, make the most of life. All good ideas. But, I am not gonna use them. Everybody is talking about gay […]