By Don Rush This past summer Riva Campbell answered the knock on her door — and got taken on a ride that lasted for months. Door-to-door solicitors canvassed the area, including Cambell’s Lake Orion Village neighborhood this past June. ‘There was a girl and a guy, they were selling magazine subscriptions,? Campbell said. ‘They were […]
Elvis Presley sang a song in the late 1960s for the movie, Live a Little, Love a Little. The song, I believe written by Mac Davis (who also wrote In the Ghetto), was titled A Little Less Conversation. It wasn’t that cool of a song in the late ?60s, but became popular with a remix/dance […]
I can’t help it. I know it’s not funny. I know it’s not a joke. But ‘death by hamster? just sounds funny to me. I am bad. I’m going to Hell. But, I can’t help it. In 2005, I remember reading about people who died because they received donated organs infected with some sort of […]
Whilst thinking about Thanksgiving and blessings for a column last week, my mind kept working. Which for me is kinda amazing. Letting my mind work is something I don’t ask of it. But, work it did. As a matter of factuality, on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, I was up and writing at 4 in the […]
I asked a question in a my headline, and I think it was an appropriate question, ‘Sunny and 80 for Memorial Day?? The answer, sad to say is, ‘No.? Weather prognosticator Swami Don says this weekend while, reverent and solemn, will be kinda sucky (which also means it will be sorta good). Friday looks to […]
Sometimes life is circular in motion — just ask Tiffany Turnbull. For 30 years, Revere’s Mexican Restaurant was a favorite destination for residents of Oxford and Orion. It was started, owned, operated, closed and then reborn in Lake Orion (behind the Taco Bell on the west side of M-24, south of Heights Road) under the […]
What is an appropriate question? When I was a young cub reporter working for Big Jim Sherman, Sr., smack dab outta’ college, fresh with youthful idealism, a journalism and marketing degree, a pocketful of pens and a reporter’s note pad I had a number of ‘beats.? (For those not in the know, a beat is […]
Just goes to show my old man, dear old Pops Rush, was right, lo? those many years ago when he said, ‘Son, you’ll learn something new every day.? (Or something like that — he died in 1996, so I can change his quotes to fit whatever context I need without fear of him correcting me.) […]
Whilst thinking about Thanksgiving and blessings for a column last week, my mind kept working. Which for me is kinda amazing. Letting my mind work is something I don’t ask of it. But, work it did. As a matter of factuality, on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, I was up and writing at 4 in the […]
An epic tale, full of bravery, loyalty and betrayal from the days of yore in Christendom has been brought to life only a few miles from here. A stone’s throw over the county-line in Lapeer, author Michael P. Spradlin has created a wonderful yarn for young readers to get lost in — The Youngest Templar […]