Okay, first of all, the Toledo Mayor does read my column. Who would have guessed? Well, I guess if you're reading this Mr. Mayor, I hope ya have a good day, or whatever; who cares? Anyway, I promised ya a funeral story for this week, and I will tell ya one, but first of all ya gotta ...
Fire fascinated me as a kid. Weeds had gotten out of control on our farm; so, my folks did a controlled burn, especially along the fences. Coming home from school, I discovered that my parents had gone to do chores while the fence line smoldered. Grabbing a pan, I ran to a barrel with a ...
Alright, my humor isn't for everyone. And frankly, most of the things that amuse me I try to keep to myself. Ya see, just a few of the words that can describe my sense of humor are: weird, dark, and just plain stupid. I have gotten in trouble for my sense of humor more times than I can ...
Life is tough! Probably no argument there, right? No one gets through this thing called "life" without a few bumps, scratches and bruises. And it can be so easy to just live by Murphy's Law---but why? Years ago there was an old TV beer commercial, (can you recall what brand), that say ...
Years ago, I took a youth group to Door County, Wis., for a retreat. We decided to watch a movie, and set up a projector, as one of our teens wrestled with a projector screen, getting the legs of the screen going in the right direction. Sitting down, he tripped on the projector’s audio ...
Schedules, I've never stuck to one. Never have, more than likely, never will. I don't have any pet peeves against schedules; it's just I've never been able to keep one. And yes, this is in direct correlation to my near constant lateness; more than once, I've run out of the house late to a ...
As a kid, I listened to the radio to hear the one-minute mystery called, “Only the Shadow Knows!” We’d try to figure out the answer to his minute mystery! But only the Shadow knew the answer. Donald Barnhouse was driving home with his children from the funeral of his first wife. ...
Ah, the joys of growing up in Chelsea in the 50's & 60's and going to school at South Tama. No cell phones, Facebook, GPS, Googling, TiK-Tok or anything else that we have today. Life was hard back in our era, wasn't it but would any of us change our "growing up" years for the days of ...
I was going to start this little piece by saying, 'Now, that camping season is nearing an end,' but I don't know when camping season is, so I'll skip ahead. Camping, it's not my thing. Firstly, I am not an "outdoors" person. I am sure most of you already know that. I mean, no one has ever ...
My mom would get frustrated with me when I was a kid. She’d say “Mike, I have ‘half a mind’ to give you a whoopin’!” Now, I don’t know about you, but I knew that if mama ever got a “full mind,” she could shorten my lifespan. So, I’d better not push any more of her buttons ...