(This from the way back archives — the 1970s!) * * * At certain times I’m skeptical about various things or people, but basically I believe what people tell me, unusual or not. Like black panthers or leopards, fortune telling, and witching wells. I really became a believer in the latter, Thursday evening. My brother-in-law […]
When I go away for a few days and leave ma’dog Shayna at a kennel, I solicit a promise that she will be given ice cream every other day. It doesn’t have to be expensive ice cream. At Lori’s bath house I request human fragrances, like my after shave. It doesn’t have to be Armani […]
If you’ve got reasoning or common sense, you’re already smarter than a lot of the campus geniuses. I just fried a pound of bacon in a pan on our range. This relates to my common sense remark. I didn’t cover the pan, so I suffered numerous grease splatters on my bare arms. Not too smart, […]
Happy Thanksgiving! I’ll be back next week (my column has alrerady been penned!)
I think it was in my early high school days when I first heard, and learned, the meaning of the word vernacular. I was so pleased with myself. I believe I took a liking to that word after my teacher explained vernacular as being the ‘language of the streets.? I soon learned that did not […]
Newscasts start with, ‘There’s breaking news!? Newspapers? headlines scream: H1N1, Unemployment Rises, Storms, Too Many Potholes. All are meant to startle listeners and readers enough to drive us to drink, then the headlines will read, ‘Drunkenness on the Rise! Well, don’t let me change the mood. Here’s a Sunday headline: ‘Group says 17,291 species threatened […]
Back up several years to when I came to Oxford in the mid 1950s — Milton Francis was working for Nowels Lumber Co. Some time after that, he started collecting historical notes He only recently (again) found some upon a cleaning/moving day. I’m glad he gave a copy to me. He headlined it ‘It’s Fantastic.? […]
Everyone knows a person’s interests change many times throughout life. We go so quickly from Kermit the frog to ‘our? body to having kids to career to graduations, weddings, etc. Right now, my reading interests are health (depression/recession), golf course negotiations (I need more shots), anti-tax increases, vinegar uses and are Works cleaners better than […]
I suppose I should suggest you read the May 5 Road tax proposal for yourselves. But, I don’t want to subject you to this insanely complex formula. How in hell, and why in hell, did the legislature vote to raise taxes on fuel, raise our sales tax, raise the vehicle registration fees while not immediately […]
In late June, 1945 I asked my mother if I could volunteer for the U. S. Navy. One brother had been in the Navy since 1943, another in the Marines since 1944. She said I could. She told me later she didn’t believe I could pass the physical. I was six-foot, four-inches and weighed 152 […]