Sanctuary is such a comforting word, a place of refuge, brought into our language by the Hebrews, and expanded quickly through the Christian church. Then a people movement in about 1989 expanded the use of the word sanctuary to city limits on the west coast. People began flocking to Los Angeles, Berkley and San Fancisco. […]
Mickey Hiatt and I have been golf buddies, drinking buddies and friends for a whole lot of years. I just ran across some poems he wrote in his Catholic elementary school, after which he broke his pencil, found girls, went in the Army and aged. This is one of his preteen poems: ‘Today is mine, […]
When we first started this Jim’s Jottings holiday tradition, the two grandchildren pictured on the wall (Dan and Karen Offer) were small enough to fit on my knees. It was 1988. Dan was 3-years-old and Karen was four-months-old. In that first picture, Karen had no hair, I had more and I still wore a suit […]
This Best of Jim’s Jottings first appeared on July 8, 2009. Our exposure to politicians is almost suffocating. There is a lot of braying around and there will be more of them trumpeting from the other side of the political fence. Which reminds me of an old joke concerning a mule named Horace. Horace belonged […]
Big Jim is busy buying, wrapping and hiding presents from his dog Shayna. His column returns next week . . . stay turned!
I’m sure we are all creatures of habit, and lock our minds into unrelated topics. Sunday, March 14 had a very strange beginning for me. I awoke at 7 a.m., and again at 10 a.m., just in time to watch Chris Wallace’s Sunday morning news. It’s a habit I like. When it closed, Fox started […]
Soon after lighting a fire cracker, at about the age of 10 (which was about the same time I started appreciating clanging coins in my pocket) I made a lifetime commitment: To stop bursting money into the air. And, I ain’t done it since! I love having money and spending it for needed and practical […]
There’s a sports team-depression connection As you regular, or irregular, readers of this column know, I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer, brightest bulb on your Christmas tree, nor does my mind see the obvious. All of which give me reason not to realize the cause of many of Michigan’s sport teams to tank […]
I guess I’m going through the same changes in life that my dad did (and there is absolutely no hint or indication it can be related to Bruce Jenner nor Caitlyn). My change in life is when it comes to the changes in music. The big difference to me is that I got accustomed to […]
As you regular, or irregular, readers of this column know, I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer, brightest bulb on your Christmas tree, nor does my mind see the obvious. All of which give me reason not to realize the cause of many of Michigan’s sport teams to tank this year. Why have the […]