Ah, it’s good to be back. You probably didn’t notice, and I am sure cared less where I was. Yes, the rumors were true: I your hero, your loyal, local scribe took a vacation. It was the first time since 2006 I have taken time off for things other than funerals, floods and flu. Who […]
The harvest is in and the holidays are upon us. Americans, despite the world at large, can find reasons for thanks. It’s our way, that despite the troubles and turmoils, we look heavenward and give thanks. After all, things could be worse. I guess it is our way as Americans to count our blessings and […]
. Along with the sunshine, there’s gotta? be a little rain, sometime. . .? — a song some country and western chick sang in the early to mid 1970s In one of our community newspapers last week a local teacher wrote a letter to the editor. When I saw the letter and that the writer […]
Earlier in my life I heard Michigan Radio host Todd Mundt interview botanist Dr. Tony Trewavas. And, I was left feeling cold and chilly. Visions of 1950s horror films haunted my thoughts. Todd Mundt’s show talked about plants with feelings. They can feel and communicate. Indeed, Dr. Trewavas of the University of Edinburgh says we […]
No blood was reported, but there was some sweat and a few tears this past Veterans Day (Nov. 11). Members of the Oxford Township Parks and Recreation Department volunteered their holiday time off to help out a local veteran. ‘They did a good job,? 86-year-old Jim Ricketts said.? I can’t get around like a I […]
Local business folks want to feel the love. No, they want to feel your love. Well, that’s not quite true, either. Actually they don’t want to feel anything of yours, what they really want is for you to show your affection for them by supporting their businesses. I hear this all the time from business […]
‘I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden. Along with the sunshine, there’s gotta? be a little rain, sometime. . .? — a song some country and western chick sang in the early 1970s I don’t know why that song popped into my head when I sat down at the trusty keyboard […]
It was late last week when I hurt my neck as drove past the first gas station with prices for the cheap gas well over $4 a gallon. I hurt myself because when I whipped my head back to double check. Yep, my eyes did not deceive me, the crappy gas was on sale for […]
Like most Americans (save soldiers, police, emergency personal, hospital folks and some reporter types) I did not work this past Monday, Memorial Day 2013. When writing this column I walk/walked a fine line of writing it in the present, but in the past tense. I am writing/wrote this column the Friday before Memorial Day. Argg! […]
I can’t help it. I know it’s not funny. I know it’s not a joke. But ‘death by hamster? just sounds funny to me. I am bad. I’m going to Hades. I can’t help it. I can’t stop thinking about those three folks who died because they received donated organs infected with some sort of […]