I’ve been a Detroit Tigers fan a long time. It was long ago when I wrote to team owner Walter Briggs, Sr. and asked if I could try out for a pitcher’s post. I was probably 15-years-old. I got the kindest, warming thank you from the Tiger organization. The thought came back to me Saturday […]
Say you and I are older citizens and can no longer take care of ourselves then the government says, ‘There is no Nursing Home care available for you.? What do we do? We opt for Medicare Part G. The plan gives anyone 75 or older a gun (Part G) and one bullet. You are allowed […]
Spread the laughter, share the cheer, Let’s be happy while we’re still here! * * * Stuff you didn’t know you didn’t know. Many years ago in Scotland, a new game was invented. It was ruled, ‘Gentlemen only? Ladies Forbidden? and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language. * * * The first […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
(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 […]