Maybe too many things are just not going my way lately, but I’m getting upset more often, quicker and it’s taking longer to get over. Too, it could be my aging. However, I really believe my rising temper has more to do with this extensive political season. I spent a lifetime writing news — maybe […]
Maybe too many things are just not going my way lately, but I’m getting upset more often, quicker and it’s taking longer to get over. Too, it could be my aging. However, I really believe my rising temper has more to do with this extensive political season. I spent a lifetime writing news — maybe […]
It’s that great, new year when we golf club swingers expect pars and get double bogies. When we realize we learned nothing watching the pros at the Masters, when we still need a lot of luck to get a decent score and again accept that the best part of golf is the 19th hole. We’ve […]
At the Meijer store in Oxford there is sometimes a man at the checkout register with no left arm. The first time I went through his checkout, I, of course, noticed the absence of said appendage, but said nothing. Dave Kalmanir’s as quick a checker-outer as anyone, has a fine personality and obviously a hard […]
Few things rile me more, and more often, than the ‘pork barreling? that goes on in Washington. Senators ask for and get bridges and roads to nowhere, airfields where there are no need for planes, subsidies for everything grown, etc. Whatever lobbyist wants, lobbyist gets. It’s a lot like Lola. You know! ‘Whatever Lola wants, […]
Former Detroit Mayoral Chief of Staff, Christine Beatty was ordered to wear a tether by a magistrate. Her attorney, Mayer Marganroth, in defending her, asked the camera, ‘How is she going to explain that to her two little girls at home?? My question is, ‘How did she explain the text messages to her two daughters?? […]
A 2-part Jottings: from pulpit and pen First ‘A Pastor with Guts? article gleaned from the U.P’s Porcupine Press. Pastor Joe Wright gave this unexpected prayer at the opening session of the Kansas Senate: ‘Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your […]
My marathon running, otherwise semi-normal son-in-law, Tim, tried to prove something the day before Easter. We all awoke to a few inches of snow. Tim announced he was going to run out and get the newspaper, barefoot. After only four steps out in the snow, he returned. This prompted 12-year-old granddaughter Savannah to conclude, ‘I […]
‘Tis the season of promises. ‘Tis also the time when those making their promises know memory of the public is short. The office seekers to the highest office in our land fill the airways and print media with cliches, phrases and hope-to-be-forgotten messages. And, it seems that when reminded of statements made in campaigns when […]
Thirty years ago I headlined a column, ‘I like ties.? And continued, ‘I must own 130 ties. I fall in love with them.? This week I recounted my collection. I now have 292 neckties. It is an array that puts sunsets second, and excites my mind with remembrances. Neckties make great first impressions. They elevate […]