A couple weeks before Christmas, 2002, I went to Meijer in Oxford to buy a scooter for granddaughter Savannah. At age 7 it’s time for her to experience more severe scraped knees, elbows, etc. I found a $39.90 boxed scooter on a high shelf, added it to my shopping cart collection of goodies and went […]
A wife sought advice from a fortune-teller, who said, “Prepare yourself for widowhood. Your husband is about to die a violent death.” The wife signed deeply and asked, “Will I be acquitted?” * * * Your know you’re going to have a bad day when you bite into a doughnut hole and find a hole […]
Remember the crying, venom spewing and insults hurled at Governor Engler when he proposed a cut in grants to the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, museums and other so-called cultural organizations? Engler was depicted as the lowest form of life, a man crueler than cruel, wicked, unmoral, without feeling and hater of the arts. Now comes Governor […]
Daughter Luan planned last Christmas’ dinner at our house. Among the too-much food, she bought a box of ice cream cakes, shaped and colored like Santa Clauses. “The three-year-old twins will love them,” she said. She put the box in our freezer and promptly forgot it. I spotted the box in late February and called […]
When I drove up to our garage at 4:30 on a recent Friday afternoon and the automatic opener didn’t work, I assumed the batteries were dead. When I came inside and flipped an electrical switch I quit blaming the batteries. When I saw that all the fuses in the electrical box were still in place […]
There’s an oft repeated truism that all those fine and fancy hotels in Las Vegas were not built by charitable organizations. Well that new 300-room hotel at Sault Saint Marie wasn’t either. We gambling losers (is that redundant?) might want to urge our elected officials in Lansing to eliminate the Saint from the names of […]
Many times I’ve told our son Jim to not spend a lot of money on my funeral. Keep it short and simple, I say. There won’t be many people there and don’t bore them. Don’t spend a lot of money to put me away. Well, I think Jim got a little tired hearing it. Recently […]
Do you feel cheated when your toothpaste, ointment or lotion tube spurts air after the first, short squeeze? Do you find your first thought gives way to anger when there’s a second spurt of air from the same tube? I do! If you do perhaps you’ll understand the multiple emotions I experienced while squeezing numerous […]
Enthusiastic, excitable, generous, dedicated and very likeable – Jack Magee. Jack had three homes. One was, of course, his residence. Another was his Oxford Barber Shop in the house behind the red and white striped ‘pole? on East Burdick Street. The third home would be whatever golf course he was on at the time. Jack […]
The following was sent to us anonymously, but dollars to doughnuts it came from a male. It’s a reprint from Housekeeping Monthly, dated 13 May 1955. ? Have dinner ready. Plan ahead, even the night before, to have a delicious meal ready, on time for his return. This is a way of letting him know […]