Now, I’ll tell you what I really think of the dynamic trio in Lansing . . . . . . A bunch of more fear-spreading, non-performing, unrepresenting group I haven’t seen. They came up with such great money-raising ideas, like taxing makers of bronze baby shoes. It was so good it lasted up until it […]
I’m very reluctant to believe this, but it is true. One of our children has turned on me, and of course, it is the middle one. From the time that our now half-century-old daughter picked up the myth that the middle child is always the neglected one, the picked on, the ignored and the most […]
Just mention Chicago and Frank Sinatra’s singing, ‘That toddling town? comes immediately to mind. I Just accepted not knowing the meaning of ‘toddling? until I started writing this column. So, to let readers know I know what I’m doing, I looked up toddling. Its origin is unknown, Webster says, but ‘it’s to walk with short […]
Just mention Chicago and Frank Sinatra’s singing, ‘That toddling town? comes immediately to mind. I Just accepted not knowing the meaning of ‘toddling? until I started writing this column. So, to let readers know I know what I’m doing, I looked up toddling. Its origin is unknown, Webster says, but ‘it’s to walk with short […]
‘Tis hunting season, so a scatter-gun column In 1898 a bike path from Toledo to the Straits was proposed. The editor of the Lapeer, (Michigan) Clarion editorialized, ‘I hope it passes.? Modern needles came into use in 1545. President Lincoln called 90,119 men from Michigan to the Civil War from April 15, 1861 to April […]
In 1898 a bike path from Toledo to the Straits was proposed. The editor of the Lapeer, (Michigan) Clarion editorialized, ‘I hope it passes.? Modern needles came into use in 1545. President Lincoln called 90,119 men from Michigan to the Civil War from April 15, 1861 to April 14, 1862 to serve three months to […]
In youth we know we’ll live forever. In aging we know we will not. Which brings me to the topic of the week: How are you going to pick a burial plot? Subjects like that come up at many ‘viewings,? like my most recent one following the death of a friend. Of course, some don’t […]
The sales tax on certain services adopted by Michigan could expand the government to the point where thousands of jobs may be created. The Michigan Chamber of Commerce so suspects. My own suspicions have the same conclusion. Reason? When the state goes about hitting dating, porter, phrenology and courier services they will have to enlarge […]
The sales tax on certain services adopted by Michigan could expand the government to the point where thousands of jobs may be created. The Michigan Chamber of Commerce so suspects. My own suspicions have the same conclusion. Reason? When the state goes about hitting dating, porter, phrenology and courier services they will have to enlarge […]
I don’t just sit around doing nothing, you know. I busy myself looking for the insignificant like, ‘How many brushings can we expect from a tube of toothpaste?? I now have the answer. But first the rules. This is a six oz. (170g) tube. I alternated using a regular toothbrush (given by my dentist) and […]