Millions of families will be sitting down this week around a table laden with scrumptious delicacies including, in some households, the centerpiece – a turkey with all the trimmings. It’s also a time to reminisce about the past year and maybe make some plans for the upcoming Holiday Season and the approaching year. Many families […]
Streaming beams of light into the early morning sky similar to the Bat signal, heralded the location for the second edition of the Brooksie Way Half Marathon on the campus of Oakland University. Thousands of cars streamed into the parking areas and runners emerged ready to tackle one of the toughest half marathons in the […]
Every parent has either heard or sung the following song: The wheels on the bus go round and round Round and round, round and round The wheels on the bus go round and round All through the town. ‘Here in Lake Orion we are blessed to have a dedicated troop of professional school bus drivers.? […]
The airwaves have been inundated with news of the impending swine flu or H1N1 influenza, which gives it a more ominous sounding! And speaking of ominous, the World Health Organization predicts that within two years, nearly one-third of the world’s population will have caught it! ‘What we know is, it’s brand new and no one […]
Before some of you fact checkers write me to explain that locoism is a disease cattle contract by eating loco weed and a malady not inflicted on humans, let me assure you that there are some in our society who dine on this delicacy everyday based on their actions. There are a lot of loco […]
As I listened to South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford struggle through tears and sobs as he described his sordid, illicit affair with a woman from Argentina, I concluded that he must have been listening to the new Kenny Chesney song ‘Out Last Night? with these opening words: We went out last night Like we swore […]
Most of us, I suspect, have had a week we’d prefer relegating to our mental recycle bin. But every now and then, we have a week that is truly remarkable. I recently had such a week that soundly confirmed my contention that customer service is rebounding and doing so in large leaps! Permit me to […]
Regular readers of my columns in The Lake Orion Review know that I like to interject a bit of humor, some tongue in cheek comments and some tweaking of politicians or those in authority in my rantings. Being retired allows me the privilege of no longer having to be politically correct, which is one of […]
Just the other day a friend of mine mentioned that after reading several of my columns he concluded that I was a ‘cranky old man?. As I looked back on some past articles, I had to agree that at times I assumed that role. But I would rather liken my opinions to that of a […]
One of the bright spots in an otherwise bland TV season features an alumnus from the successful ‘Seinfeld? program, namely Julia Louis-Dreyfus who stars in the ‘New Adventures of Old Christine.? It monitors the lifestyle changes of a divorcee attempting to re-enter the world of dating and socializing. Its humor is sophisticated and yet somewhat […]