As I sit high up in my office, overlooking the mean streets of Clarkston (that would be Main Street, from Washington to Waldon) it is December 21, 2011. The Winter Solstice and the first day of the last year of life as we know it. Not only did Dec. 21 mark the date, days start […]
There are times when this job really, and I mean really pays off. There are times, like last Wednesday (December 14), when it was gray and raining and time to shop was running low; when the bills needed paying and spirits needed to grow. Then, when hope is but a farfetched dream, a story presents […]
Gee. Horse meat. Really? So it was with great restraint that I listened to the news that Congress was getting ready to lift the ban on horse meat for human consumption. I used restrain from turning the news off as I didn’t want to think about eating my friend, Flicka. Before you all stomp me […]
I reckon George Lucas had no idea that when he wrote a line for his fictional character Jedi master Obi-Wan Kenobi, that it would stick around so long and take on a universal-like quality. ‘May the Force be with you,? is the most quoted line from and in all the Star Wars movies. The ‘Force? […]
Another Thanksgiving is done and gone. I know because of all the excuses coming from the Detroit Lions professional football franchise about another embarrassing, nationally televised loss. After gushing (quite poetically, I might add) about what I was thankful for last week, I got thinking. ‘Don,? I thought to myself in the third-person, ‘You have […]
Every night I tend to reflect on the hours I was awake that day. Did I fail, hurt or belittle any person, situation or entity. If I answer to myself, ‘yes? I figure out what needs to happen the next day to make things right. (Most nights, thankfully, the affirmative answer isn’t heard.) And, every […]
Sometimes the ol? creative juices just don’t flow as freely as they used to — which really makes it interesting when I sit down and try to write something. Today is one of those days. What to write about? Some one mentioned to me that I should write about the lads Shamus and Sean, because […]
So . . . the world is up in arms. Life as we know it will end. Nobody likes us Michiganians, and I know this because all the opinion-mongers (like me), are writing about us in Washington DC, New York, Los Angeles and anywhere in between. Children will die and it is all the fault […]
This weekend whilst on the road (Michigan Highway 52) between the towns Owosso and St. Charles, I received a cell phone call. It was a busy weekend as son Sean and I were on a big adventure. We pointed the car in one direction and drove. Back to the phone call. A co-worker informed me […]
There are a couple ways I can approach this column. One, I could say, ‘Were I a younger man . . .? or, Two, I could type, ‘When I grow up . . .? Or I could fulfill all your dreams and desires and do it both ways and then do you one better and […]