. Along with the sunshine, there’s gotta? be a little rain, sometime. . .? — a song some country and western chick sang in the early to mid 1970s In one of our community newspapers last week a local teacher wrote a letter to the editor. When I saw the letter and that the writer […]
Local business folks want to feel the love. No, they want to feel your love. Well, that’s not quite true, either. Actually they don’t want to feel anything of yours, what they really want is for you to show your affection for them by supporting their businesses. I hear this all the time from business […]
It was late last week when I hurt my neck as drove past the first gas station with prices for the cheap gas well over $4 a gallon. I hurt myself because when I whipped my head back to double check. Yep, my eyes did not deceive me, the crappy gas was on sale for […]
Like most Americans (save soldiers, police, emergency personal, hospital folks and some reporter types) I did not work this past Monday, Memorial Day 2013. When writing this column I walk/walked a fine line of writing it in the present, but in the past tense. I am writing/wrote this column the Friday before Memorial Day. Argg! […]
Weather has always (kinda) fascinated me. Well, I reckon that’s not quite true (which kinda makes it a lie). Ok. I follow the weather so that I’m better prepared; know what to wear in the morning or whether or not I should leave my home earlier in the morning or when to take cover from […]
Just this weekend I heard/read the Internal Revenue Service was busted targeting groups critical of the government. According to one on-line blog I read: ‘The IRS repeatedly changed the criteria it used for singling out nonprofit applications for further review, at one point looking at all groups hoping to make ‘America a better place to […]
While thumbing through the book of 1971 Oxford Leader newspapers, a feature article caught my eye. Headlined, Clip Dip: Long hair no boon for Oxford Barber. The two barbers in town, Stub Robinson and Jack Magee (both sadly, now clipping hair in Heaven) lamented on the loss of business due to the long-hairs. Said Jack, […]
Are you a skeptic? A realist? Are you a believer or are you in the wait-and-see holding pattern. Me, I am in the ‘I Want To Believe? group. At times, I am a top-notch skeptic, and other times I am shown things that get me shouting Hallelujah! (on the inside). If you are into conspiracies […]
So there I was, minding my own bees wax when one of our salesdudes shot me over an email from the Clarkston office. Some person, a woman Andrew Dubats is working with had won some sort of recognition for her efforts in Glamping. Hmm? Come again? What was that she’s good at? Glamping, I didn’t […]
Last week I pondered on what to do after I sowed some seed in the warm confines of my own home. The seeds have sprouted, I wrote, now what? * * * Don, I asked my Dad why my indoor seedlings toppled as soon as I took them outside. He said they need to get […]