After Christmas break, the teacher asked her third-grade class to write a composition on their holiday. One little boy wrote as follows: We always spend Christmas with Grandma and Grandpa. They used to live here in a big brick house, but Grandpa got retarded and they moved to Florida. They live in a place with […]
We’ve all had this done to us. We say something about anything and the listener has a topper. We’ve all probably had the topper, too. That’s ok, if, as in my case the topper is better. For some unknown reason this verse came to mind. I recall reciting it to daughter Susan and her friend […]
Merry Christmas! Once again I’d like to share the warmth of the season with all of you. Those two boys on the right have a little more warming up to the season than the rest of us. With me are my grandchildren, from the left (standing) Karen Offer, Savannah, twins Haley and Trevor Speed and […]
I’ve always hated (disliked) articles filled with questions to the point I quit reading them. I figure I got questions, what I need are answers. However, sometimes questions really need to be asked. Like, how come I can remember the Gettysburg Address, Lord’s Prayer, some funny stories, etc., but can’t find my glasses, can’t remember […]
I realize this may upset our children, grandchildren or others who thought they were giving me the world’s greatest Christmas gift, but daughter Susan really did give me the world’s greatest gift. It’s a membership in the Bacon of the Month Club. Imagine knowing each month, for 12 months, you’re assured of getting a package […]
I’ve been wanting to write about our daughter Luan, and her courting by now-husband Bob Offer in 1969. To refresh my memory I re-read a history I wrote of Hazel’s life and my own life story. A couple years after Hazel died in 2001, I wrote down about each of our lives, hers from 1925, […]
We all have quirks, routines and/or habits others find foolish, unreasonable and/or mysterious. My Sunday morning reasons for arising are likely to raise some eyebrows. Many times my first thought on waking is to read the morning Freep or Detroit News. Of course, now they are one and the same . . . Free Press […]
Following are bits collected from anywhere but the internet. I not only do not understand why that word is supposed to be capitalized, I stubbornly refuse to enter it. Mostly this stuff comes from the UP Monthly Magazine, formerly the Porcupine Press. – – – 0 – – – ? My mother taught me everything […]
‘Mean? Mary Jean, the tour scheduling genius of Oxford Parks and Recreation, got tickets for a half hundred of us to see Jeff Foxworthy at the Fox Theater in Detroit recently. You know Foxworthy, he of ‘You might be a Redneck if? fame? He’s been on stages around the world for 20 years, but it […]
? The worst idea ever for financing education is gambling. But since Lansing’s brightest have adopted it, isn’t it reasonable to put it in the required curriculum with math, science and English? Then use the acronym GEMS (Gambling, English, Math, Science.) ? I bought myself a lift chair. Now my television watching requires me to […]