Gone a week, but to me, the greatest thing that happened was the sun finally came out, the weather warmed and I could plant my geraniums and marigolds. One day during that week I went trout fishing in the UP with my equally unlucky son, Jim. Let me define my trout fishing: I sit on […]
But, Jim’s Jottings will return next week!
Gone a week, but to me, the greatest thing that happened was the sun finally came out, the weather warmed and I could plant my geraniums and marigolds. One day during that week I went trout fishing in the UP with my equally unlucky son, Jim. Let me define my trout fishing: I sit on […]
Jim’s Jottings will return next week!
Getting a haircut recently I overheard some of Gayle Schlicht’s deer hunting plans. They have a cabin w-a-a-y up north. It sounded like one huge room that sleeps 16 with a wood burning stove in the middle. They’ll cut next year’s firewood this season, as they’ve done for years. Of the 14 scheduled this season […]
A bugler’s taps at a military funeral so final Our friend Jim Dafoe chose Great Lakes National Cemetery, in Holly, for his final resting place. Michigan has two National cemeteries, Holly and Battle Creek. In November 2002, the National Cemetery Association Department of Veterans Affairs, paid $6.2 million for the 544 acres, now run by […]
First, my toad story needs some background. After being discharged, honorably, from the United States Navy in 1946 I went back to Western Michigan University where I’d already spent one prewar year. With an ego the size of Everest, and self appreciation of my athletic ability to match, I went out for Western’s basketball team. […]
? It really spoils the image when I hear this country’s leaders publicly use the worst curse words. An uncle once told me, ‘People swear when they aren’t smart enough to think of clean words.? That includes me, but it shouldn’t allow our Vice President Biden and senior Senator Carl Levin to be so blatant. […]
It crossed my mind while watching a Detroit Lions (professional?) football game that vendors in the stadium food booths would probably like to sell as many hot dogs as there are down on the field in Honolulu Blue and White. The gyrations some of the million-dollar-a-game guys display after they catch a pass, tackle a […]
This Jottings was first published on July 21, 1982. Mike Downey, a Chicago imported sports columnist for The Detroit Free Press, recently devoted his space to things he hates. All I could think of when I read it was doing a column on things I like: Here goes: White shoes and white belts, but only […]