You know your karma needs cleansing when your ‘friends? kick you whilst your feeling down. Can someone pass me a soul-sponge or something, cuz I must of upset the gods some where along the way. Let me backup and fill you folks in and then you can tell me if my aura is askew . […]
The other day I was walking in a local parking lot and I saw a dirty old penny. It was dinged up pretty good so, it had been run over a few times. Despite the fact President Lincoln’s face was turned down, I bent over and picked it up and slid it in my pants […]
Here in the home of the brave and land of the free we, each of us who cares, is a slave to ‘elections.? It is a fact. The very thing that keeps us free in this democratic, representative republic — elections — is holding us down. Elections, elections, elections. It is not that we have […]
Editor’s Note: work pulled Don in different directions this week . . . here is a Best of Don, from 2002. We think you’ll smile. And, if you to see what is on Don’s mind — this week — check out Don’t Rush Me — The Show by clicking on www.moviemole.com/jillsshow-1/don/index.html * * * It’s […]
My Aunt Janice Pearl Housekeeper e-mailed me a cute little story the other day. I may have heard it before, and so too may have you. That said, it’s still cute and will make you smile. * * * The Outhouse Once there was a little boy who lived in the country. They had to […]
For a while now I’ve been reading about the increase of ‘undesirables? in the states south of us. And, since it really didn’t pertain to us in Michigan, I figured, ‘what the heck, it’s their problem.? But the more I read of the invasion of these darker, reddish-brown skinned unwanteds, the more I thought we […]
For the second time in two months, Heckle & Jeckle Party Store, 27 N. Washington Street, was victimized by a seemingly armed bandit. According to Oxford Village Police Chief Mike Neymanowski, a man entered the store on Thursday, June 19, just before 10 p.m. ‘We have video of the robbery,? Neymanowski said. ‘And, there seems […]
I’ll admit right here and now: I never was part of that great American broadcasting tradition — I never was a PBS kid. Sesame Street, huh? Where’s that? Ever the intellectual giant, the only thing with Sesame in or on it that I knew of were those wonderful McDonald’s Big Mac burgers, with two, all […]
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. — Mark Twain As someone in the print journalism world, I know a lot of electronic media have played up the demise of newspapers. To some extent, that is true. While weekly newspapers like the one you’re reading now continue to be strong, viable businesses, dailies […]
So, a few weeks ago I went to my family doctor — Maria — who I actually went to high school with, and sometime between turning my head and coughing and getting probed, it was suggested I need to rethink what it is to live a healthy life. Sometime after I made the crude comment […]