Many senior citizens approach their golden years and retirement with trepidation. Not me. I retired two years ago after forty years in the business world and am now looking forward to my next forty years in a lifestyle filled with excitement, fulfillment and a schedule of my own making. Permit me to enumerate just some […]
When our ancestors traveled through the new frontier in their Conestoga wagons, they had no expectations of smooth thoroughfares. They encountered roads with a washboard surface, and roads with holes deep enough to swallow wandering buffalo. Move forward several generations, and travel, other than herds of buffalo, remains about the same. Michigan roads, any time […]
Message to the senior center proponents (all five of you): Hold off on the confetti and balloons! ‘This just in— ‘With zero percent of the vote in and no precincts reporting, ABC News, CNN and Fox News have reported that the senior center proposal in Orion, Oxford and Addison townships has gone down to a […]
As the Holiday Season approaches there are several inevitable occurrences that will try our patience. Along with people jostling in lines, the inevitable NASCAR-like jockeying in the parking lots, out-of-stock merchandise and interminably long lines for Santa, we also have to endure the bane of temporary help in stores and holiday-decorated ‘tip jars.? By and […]
Those of us in the acting profession hear those words regularly from a director attempting to extract perfection from a group of actors. It’s appropriate to utter similar words at the end of 2006 – a year of corporation downsizing and when many companies heard those ominous words, ‘lights out!? The year saw layoffs, outsourcing […]
Have you noticed that our airwaves no longer carry normal, informative, unadulterated news anymore? ‘Breaking News? has become the standard format, with all news presented in an excitable, almost breathless tone. News anchors announce what they consider events so extraordinary that they are routinely reported as ‘Breaking News? or ‘Important Bulletins.? We at home ponder […]
Now that ‘The Donald? and Rosie have momentarily quelled their donnybrook, the specter of Oakland County Executive Brooks Patterson and ‘The Gov? engaging in verbal fisticuffs over a bond issue for the county is surfacing. My money is on Brooks. While he may not be as lithe as ‘The Gov,? anyone who stands in a […]
Several years ago Joni Mitchell serenaded us with her hit ‘Big Yellow Taxi.? There was a line in that song that I’m confident some of you remember – ‘Pave Paradise and put up a parking lot.? If you happen to wander through downtown Lake Orion you may just hear some merchants singing their own version […]
Within the last two weeks the swallows returned to Capistrano, California and the vultures landed in Hinckley, Ohio. These are events met with excitement since they signal the return of spring. Various community events are scheduled to mark these annual historic days. In Lake Orion, Oxford and Addison Township we are seeing the emergence of […]
Well, it was inevitable. My health care insurance just went up again. And guess what? My insurer stated that it would increase again in May 2008, but for an undetermined amount. Now that’s what I call planning, at least on their behalf. Maybe they’re waiting to see what their country club fees will be for […]