Hmm? What’s going on? Well, I have been remiss in my duties as a purveyor of locally written and or provocative literature. You didn’t know that was one of my duties? Well, it is — even if it’s a little known facet of my life as town’s Newspaper Guy. For the record my new business […]
Mere mortals, one and all. That’s us in the Great Lakes State. And as such, we can only wait and let nature complete its cycle. We are powerless against Jack Frost, Old Man Winter, et al. Well, that’s the way it used to be. Back in 2003 I wrote about more and more robins staying […]
So, the other Sunday I was sitting on the couch in the living room with my sons, Shamus (15) and Sean (13 in a month). Part of our weekend ritual is to watch one Sunday morning political talk show, whilst eating breakfast so we can make observations about politics before we dive into vacuuming, washing, […]
Lo these many years I’ve heard that when dudes hit the half century mark, weird crap starts happening. Don’t know if it’s physical, emotional, mental or spiritual — but I’ve heard these rumors for as long as I care to remember. Well I’m hear to say, based on my own extensive, scientific experiments, it must […]
Oh — I don’t know, a little over a year ago I think — Pam Belding (or as I like to call her, Red) started sending me the ever-evolving manuscript she was writing. I hoped she did it so I could edit. Outside on the patio furniture I would sit and read. Armed with nothing […]
When I first started typing columns back in 1986, one of the first ‘gems? of journalistic dribble I labeled Don’t Rush Me recorded (lamented) the fact I had found my first gray hair. At that time, when I was about 22, I was sensitive of my age. Everybody always thought I looked older than I […]
You know I’m just like you (even if you’re a chick). I am just an average Joe and every time a new year comes around I kinda want to do things better. And, if I can’t do better, then maybe just doing them a little different will work, too. With that in mind, I’ll share […]
While Rush is away on holiday, we searched his files and came up with this “gem” of a column in regards to the holiday season. Enjoy! And, Happy Holidays.* * * When we broke out the Christmas decorations , also let loose were the two dozen Christmas albums, er, CDs I have. My taste in […]
Peace on earth and good will to men. This holiday season was kinda mucked up last week because of a whack job in Connecticut. Before the whack job went on his rampage, I already had a column written for this week. My column was gonna? be about the end of the world, Dec. 21, 2012. […]
The bane of a parent’s existence (aside from dubious folks hanging ’round kids) is technology. Now, I don’t want to sound like an apostle of Ted Kaczynski, but dang it . . . technology has brought a whole new level of angst into child-rearing. Some school districts are handing every kid a world wide (wild) […]