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“Out and About”: Recycling, the heart, and balancing
Recycling is something we should all be involved in. Unfortunately, there are some things that cannot be thrown in with the paper, tin cans and other normal recyclables. Fortunately, there…
Postcard from the Pines: The Hog has come and gone…
Mich Manual 1869 Everyone with a public voice is talking about the cold this week…and the groundhog. In these parts, it’s likely that contrary to public opinion, he did not…
Pat’s Bits and Pieces: February … Again
Well it’s here again – my least favorite month of the whole year.Thursday is Groundhog Day and after they roust the poor critter out of his “log,” this year “Punxsutawney…
Life as Performance Art
As you might have noticed I keep coming back to the theme of respect. We give it and we earn it. It is a rapid exchange of an intangible element in…
Mike’s Musings: Time to get control of Big Pharma
I’m not a fan of Big Pharma. If you read my columns regularly you know I have railed against the industry consistently. After all the sacrifices we made through the…
“Out and About” Law enforcement, rain and fog driving, and trivia
We’ve all had encounters with law enforcement at least once in our lives. These encounters are usually minor traffic stops because we failed to come to a complete stop at…
Postcard from the Pines: It’s Snow Joke
Main Street March 26, 1923 50-14 Everyday life seems to have slowed to a crawl during this odd winter in Marion, Michigan. Winter is what it is, from one to…
Pat’s Bits and Pieces: Just more winter bits….
Another week, another column…With January winding down – there’s only four more days – that must mean there’s only a couple more months to get through before spring arrives again.That…
Life as Performance Art
The first of several garden seed catalogues arrived the other day, and I dropped everything for an hour or so to go through it. Others will soon follow, and I will…
Classified document scandal needs to be put to rest
After re-reading my opinion last week that the Trump/Biden classified documents scandal was much to do about nothing, I realized I left out a couple of major points.First, I minimalized…
Pat’s Bits and Pieces: Recovering and complaining
Most of the time, I consider myself pretty lucky. I am nearly 77 and other than having my tonsils out at 5 or 6 years old, have not had many…
Life as Performance Art
Harry and Megs recalled a conversation Mother had with me over half a century ago. I don’t know what brought it on, although it was probably a long-winded telephone monologue from…
Mike’s Musings: Who cares who has classified documents? Not I
Much ado about nothing, or so that’s what I would call the most recent hysteria about classified documents. As background for those not following the storyline, classified documents which President…
Pat’s Bits and Pieces: I’m not absent minded – it’s gremlins
It has been that kind of month.You know what I mean. The kind where you lose something and then find it right in front of you…I just spent about a…
Sunday Football with the Gardener
We watch football together when the opportunity allows. In fact, we’ve viewed a lot of footfall in the same space through our many years together. We make odd viewing companions.…
