While spring kinda dribbled in this year, this weekend marks America’s opening to summer. If we are lucky, the sun will be out and the temperatures will be above 50 for all our parades and Memorial Day ceremonies. A quick check to the Weather Underground website, predicts 80 degrees and a chance of rain in […]
I read a blog (notimetoclean.wordpress.com) about cleaning and organizing junk drawers. Inspired, when I got to work on Monday, I opened the desk drawer that normally stays closed, except when I open it to throw more stuff in there. Wow! It’s funny how many things a desk drawer can hold. I felt like a fedora […]
Recently, son Sean, 14, was honored as one of the top 51 ‘scholars? of Shiawassee County. Something about having scored well on an SAT test these 8th graders took earlier in the year elevated their existence to this level of renown. It was a very proud moment for all the kids, their families and friends. […]
It has been a long journey, and as that great Oriental meta-philandering guy Confusion once said, ‘Round Eye, said journey begins with the first mis-step.? The first step in the continuing saga of my back yard and a #@$% smackin’ frackin’ mole began in April, 2006. The snow had melted and the yard was ready […]
It seems the more opportunities we have to connect with each other, the more we separate ourselves. I’m not just talking about interpersonal relationships, either. I’m talking about communal relationships, relationships which help communities navigate societal changes in a productive manner. Now that was a long-winded way of saying, or asking, ‘Why are we yelling […]
This week, eldest son Shamus, now 16, is getting fit for his tux. He’s making a high school prom appearance this weekend. He’s a good, young man; caring and smart. And, thinking of how young master Shamus has grown, on what he’s achieved and overcome these too few years, I had a flash back. I […]
Okay everybody, take a long, deep breath. Take your eyes away from the page, close ’em and let that breath leave your body. Relax. Come this Thursday, April 17, every upstanding, taxpaying Michiganian will have theoretically worked enough this year to pay off the government. Thursday is Tax Freedom Day. Feel better? Me neither. Last […]
Almost three years to the day, I published the following two paragraphs . . . and let me say, the smackin’ frackin #@$%! moles never left. But, I am getting ahead of myself, and next week’s exciting conclusion to, Of Moles and Men! * * * For the first time EVER in the history of […]
While Rush is away doing of little significance to the betterment of mankind, here a favorite column from April 4, 2004. We hope you enjoy. — The Management * * * We are becoming a ‘soft? nation. An ocean of ‘wimps? and ‘hoity toitys? (whoever they are) will soon be upon us. No longer will […]
What a difference some sunshine and a few Fahrenheit degrees can make! It was getting depressing looking outside and seeing gray and feeling cold. Sticks and branches on yellow and brown dead-looking lawns. Blach. Dirty piles of snow. Yuck. And, then . . . . . . Sunday morning coming down, the sky turned blue, […]