Folks who know me, know I dig history. I just like it. So, when I get interesting facts I like to pass them on. Reader Pam B (who is also a peace-nic/artisan type from out Brandon Township way) sent me these Michigan ‘facts.? I put the quotation marks around facts because, well, she’s originally from […]
Eating has been a part of my life well, since I was first a life form. I like eating. I like cooking. I like eating. I like going to restaurants. I like eating. I like all sorts of stuff. Uhmm — I don’t like beets. Let me say, I am also an individual who likes […]
Plain and simple, we are murderers. Good intentions aside, we kill refrigerators. We, Jen and I, should not be allowed to have a refrigerator. Well, we can have refrigerators as long as they are new and boring, easy to maintain and to find replacement parts for. We just can’t have cool vintage fridges. It is […]
Sure as St. Patrick’s Day is Saturday, I reckon we can say we have passed the corner. Spring has arrived. I based this observation, not on the amount heat our thermometer measures, rather the amount of shoveling I had to do in the yard. A winter’s worth of doggy doo-doo, is a sure sign snow […]
Son of a — the news that a fellow Clarkston High School alum told me about himself was a bit hard to swallow. ‘I never smoked a day in my life, but I need a double lung transplant,? Dave told me at the beginning of March. ‘Cripe!? I thought to myself, ‘That, in one, very […]
You know, there comes a time when you have to say, ‘Oops. Sorry. I messed up.? Speaking from a personal experience (excuse me, experiences), I know this is the case. The case in point I shall endeavor to delve, deals with the unholy trinity surrounding Goodrich schools. In the little hamlet of Goodrich, parents have […]
I guess I really am a cranky white guy — wife Jen, tells me so, reminding too, that I am old. (So I got that going for me . . .) Being a Cowg (Cranky old, white guy) I get a little wigged out when thrown in with a bunch of teenagers. My ‘Spidy? senses […]
Well, spring has sprung, and I hope everybody’s Easter was merry and bright . . . I mean, white . . . would you believe, snow covered? Aw-heck. Dang blab it! I hope you all stayed warm and didn’t have to shovel too much snow. * * * I save up reader e-mail and once […]
By Don Rush Youths who grew up in the Clarkston Area in the 1970s, ?80s and ?90s lost a friend and booster last week, with the passing of Raymond Charles Davis, Sr. Mr. Davis, who had been ill for about a year, died April 5, 2007, at the age of 69. He was an advocate […]
It is a parent’s job to worry about their offspring. You worry about their friends. You worry when they don’t talk or walk as soon as other kids. You worry about the size of their head. Worry, worry, worry. Well, since little Sean Rush turned seven this past St. Patrick’s Day, I have at least […]