For several years The Oxford Leader was on The Old Farmer’s Almanac mailing list. We didn’t ask for it, but we loved receiving it, and reporting its weather predictions, among other things. All those years they claimed 80 percent accuracy in their weather predictions. However, 2011 got ’em. They refer to last year as ‘the […]
It was a slow news night, and I decided to watch the evening news on something besides Fox. I switched to ABC and David Muir. Financial news has been rather depressing, but I waited for some hope for change. Muir’s first interview was with a gal who appeared to have been designer dressed to emphasize […]
From cradle to grave most of us are asked, encouraged and threatened to exercise. Stretch, run, do push-ups, work off the flab. And we spend at least half of the next eight decades questioning that ‘need.? With those early thoughts still prevalent, I signed up for some professional training. I stretched and pulled for a […]
That’s what Detroit Free Press columnist Terry Foster wrote after the Sunday, August 6 game in Comerica Park. His ‘best game ever? conclusion had more to do with a father-son thing than the Tigers come from behind win in extra innings to defeat the Indians. Foster was there with his son, Brandon, 10, and Bart […]
Back in 2006 I was excited about the prospects of Detroit Tiger baseball. Not so much about broadcasting commentary. The same is true to day, I believe. See what you think with the ‘beatu? of a column from August 16, 2006. * * * Baseball was my game in my growing-up years. As a freshman […]
Hazel and I joined a couples golf league at Oxford Hills Golf and Country Club as soon as possible after it opened in 1965. After Hazel passed, daughter Luan filled out our two-some. Couples leagues are more of a social affair than a competive contest. At least it has always been in my case. Get […]
Story Number 1 One late afternoon of our many hot days I decided to dangle my legs in our pool, just for kicks. Our 12-year-old grandkids were also in the pool with their dad. They were throwing a basketball at me so it would hit and splashed my face. Ha, ha. Very funny. Enough already, […]
Oxford Parks and Recreation transported a bus load of folks to the Detroit Tigers vs. Chicago White Sox game Sunday, July 22. Friends booked me for that game. Other than my concern for descending steps, I looked forward to going to what Hall of Fame baseball announcer Ernie Harwell called ‘The Old Ballpark.? Between the […]
Let’s see if I have this right: President Barack Obama won’t show us his birth certificate. Presidential candidate Mitt Romney won’t release his 2011 tax reports. Congress is immobile, inept and incapable of agreeing on anything except leaving town. Try as hard as these three units will to create ill feeling toward our democracy, I’m […]
When did political polls start? I don’t really want to know. I hear only those that reflect my choices. But, that’s just my way of getting to this Jottings. What started this thinking was a comment made by Wayne, my barber. Which took me back several years. Then president of the Oxford Board of Education, […]