In the same week recently golf and basketball sports fans were treated to continuous exposure, via television, of replays, plays and diagnoses adnauseam. The most powerful radio station in Michigan (there’s a 50,000 watt limit) WJR, interrupted the most powerful conservative radio mouth in the world (Rush Limbaugh) to bring us the confessions of a […]
Seeing deer wander across my lot usually makes me smile. They wander often, not necessarily to get to the other side, but I think sometimes they want to see if they can entice ma’dog Shayna to cross her electric fence limits. Six times they succeeded because I forget the batteries on her warning (shocking) system […]
My daddy died at 93: 94 if he’d sanitized A big percent of Americans can be talked, or sold, into anything. Like hand sanitizers, but only if they are used correctly, according to an article I read Sunday. Of course, the only reason I read it was to confirm my belief that I should have […]
I like to start a Jottings with pointing out, as they do on the tube, ‘This is a true story, only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.? This has to be true, our daughter told it to me. These two lady friends went shopping a Kroger store. One is a diabetic and […]
I started watching ‘NCIS? soon after it started airing in 2003. What drew me to the program was the name of the leading man, Mark Harmon. He was born in 1951 to Tom Harmon and actress Elsie Knox. I first started reading about Tom Harmon when he was an All-American football player for University of […]
As winter started closing in last fall, I decided some 40-year-old pines in the front yard should be eliminated. They’d served as a great screen from traffic noise, etc., but some thinning was due. I asked the cutter to leave at least one 4-ft. stump in case I wanted a monument some day. Before the […]
Miss me? Well, not as much as I missed you. I’ve been looking for someone else to blame for my absence. That’s just the way I am. Blame someone or something else. I’ve narrowed it down to the anticipation of the Groundhog’s appearance February 2. Just before that, I was struck with a session of […]
In July, 2006 an artist approached me with the idea of painting a mural on the side of 5 S. Washington St. What a great idea, I thought. Dress up the corner. Bring in some wholesome images — a slice of Americana right here in Clarkston. I toured entire towns where the businesses were muralized. […]
At the beginning of every year for as far back as I can remember (2009), the news is dominated by telling us ways to save money. One major emphasis is on coupon clipping. Headlines yell, ‘Over $25,500 in coupon savings in this issue.? That in mind, I am a saver, I took the insert coupons […]
It just isn’t right. It’s un-American! It’s lying, deceiving and outrageous! What I’m talking about is television schedules for sporting events. Especially the big four – football, basketball, hockey and baseball. The printed schedule will list a starting time as, say 1:00. But, that’s nowhere near the start of the game time. That’s when the […]