If you believe what you read, especially here, retirement communities are making plans to change their ways. A Time magazine article by Joel Stein opines, such senior living places have two choices: separate spaces, or build surroundings for retiring boomers or super-olds. Stein wrote, ‘Boomers who started turning 65 last year, are moving into retirement […]
(Here’s a Re-run of this Jim’s Jottings which first appeared in print on June 14, 1973.) I sometimes feel like I was cheated out of being 18-and 19-years-old. This feeling is especially prevalent now that our son is nearing 19. It’s not that I want to be 18 or 19 again, someone might start another […]
I think ma? dog Shayna lied to me I couldn’t eat all the Fettuccini Alfredo with chicken I was served at 24th St. Tavern in downtown Oxford, so I took the balance home to ma’dog Shayna. Other than adding a color variation, I have no idea why anyone would put pieces of broccoli in anything, […]
Our Leader headline: World ending this season That was the prediction of Professor Pay Astrologer and seer from France as reported in The Oxford Leader in 1928. ‘A tremendous noise will be heard, huge numbers will die all over the globe, North and South America will suffer most, the Pope will be assassinated, few people […]
It is probably a good thing we don’t use logic in picking our friends. Were that the case, Jim Fitzgerald and I never would have become good friends. He was Catholic, I Methodist. He was a liberal Democrat, I a conservative Republican. He was from the city of Port Huron, I’m a boy from Vernon. […]
It’s the 184th edition of the Old Fanner’s Almanac, which is now Blum’s Farmer’s and Planter’s Almanac. It reads, ‘Surprise!? 2012 is a presidential election year. These elections are always held on the Tuesday between November 2 and November 8. This year’s is November 6. If you are superstitious about a Friday the 13th being […]
Three guides I’ve sometimes tried to live by: 1. Think ahead — be ahead. 2. You’ll never have if you don’t save. 3. If it’s inevitable, do it now — whether it’s taking out the trash or going into bankruptcy. Proof of Number 2, in my case. For a while the Navy withheld half my […]
When we first started this Jim’s Jottings holiday tradition, the two grandchildren Dan and Karen Offer (Karen is holding the pooch named Relish and Big Dan is next to her) were small enough to fit on my knees. It was 1988. Dan was 3 years old and Karen was four months old. In that first […]
So, I’m thinking: What can I write for this Christmas season that I haven’t covered before? And, why is Santa fat? Thin people can be jolly. If you were looking for a Santa history you’d probably go on the internet. I went to my World Book Encyclopedia, circa 1960. It starts, ‘Santa Claus is a […]
I don’t do e-mails or internet, but that doesn’t eliminate exposure. Friends who deliver such epistles to me know my humor, likes and dislikes. Thus; a forward from Karbginsky and Hiatt. Did you ever wonder why there are no dead penguins on the ice in Antarctica – where do they go? Wonder no more! It […]