As you review your resolutions this month (you know, lose weight, work out more, etc.) maybe this thought will help: Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways — Chardonnay in one hand, chocolate in […]
My two-years older sister, Barbara, taught me to dance when I was about 15. We lived in Morrice, a town of about 450 people, 14 miles south of Owosso — the biggest town in Shiawassee County, with 14,000 residents. There were just four boys in our class of nine. I don’t think any of them […]
Thank goodness for good Samaritans. Ma’dog Shayna’s electronic tether allows her to go about 90 feet from our house. She has been so controlled over two years. The ‘collar? shocks her, or me, when I forget to take it off in the car. And, I take it off at night. So, sometimes, when I know […]
My most watched shows on television are ‘The Mentalist,? ‘NCIS,? ‘The Closer? and ‘Blue Blood.? My DVR is programmed to record them. They came to mind recently when I found myself searching for the background of a recently recommended orthopedic surgeon. Last October I first noticed my left forearm hurt when it touched the arm […]
? Boys with 3 or 4 older sisters learn to dance way before boys with no siblings. The talent comes easily when waiting outside the bathroom door. I have to give Bob Hope credit for that one. ? In one of his too-many talks to the nation, President Obama said four million new jobs have […]
I swear I came out of my mother’s womb swinging a golf club, and I’ve been working on that swing every since. (It’s a writers privilege to exaggerate to make a point.) The point being that I was born into golf. My daddy helped build a golf course in Kalamazoo in the early 20s. My […]
Editor’s Note: Mr. Sherman is taking a break this week, so enjoy this ‘Best of Jottings? column from March 22, 2006. If you were a reader of Jottings last October 5 you may recall the boasting of the art form known, at least by some, as ‘yard art.? Therein was a picture of my antique […]
Now, I’ll tell you what I really think of the dynamic trio in Lansing . . . . . . A bunch of more fear-spreading, non-performing, unrepresenting group I haven’t seen. They came up with such great money-raising ideas, like taxing makers of bronze baby shoes. It was so good it lasted up until it […]
I’m sure Webster would define thrift, cheap, saving, frugal and being economical each differently, but to me they are very similar. I’m not recommending everyone go through a depression like that of the 1930s, but it was necessary to put those adjectives into use. Hard times bring out the savings habit. Wasting food was not […]
I’m very reluctant to believe this, but it is true. One of our children has turned on me, and of course, it is the middle one. From the time that our now half-century-old daughter picked up the myth that the middle child is always the neglected one, the picked on, the ignored and the most […]