Maybe it’s Mother’s Day. Maybe it’s graduation time. Maybe it’s Memorial Day. Whatever, something about this month makes me have some more serious thoughts. I’m reminded of a quotation and poem I’ve put in Jottings columns in years past. First the quotation: Take a bucket and fill it with water, Put your hand in it, […]
My reader told me recently she likes Jottings with humor. However, I’ve learned that what is humor to some is dumb stuff to others. But I’ll keep trying. Rodney Dangerfield – ‘When I was a kid I got no respect. I told my mother, ‘I’m going to run away.? She said, ‘On your mark!?? You […]
The extent to which our governments will go to save our lives reached a goal never envisioned by the taxpaying public. While many people haven’t accepted being made to buckle up, and several fight forced-helmet wearing, and opposition is high on roll-over bars on garden tractors, few of us have been exposed to the advising […]
In a weak moment I read something a PhD wrote Everyone knows a person’s interests change many times throughout life. We go so quickly from Kermit the frog to ‘our? body to having kids to career to graduations, weddings, etc. Right now, my reading interests are health (depression/recession), golf course negotiations (I need more shots), […]
Harvey Penick is probably the most well known golf instructor in the history of the U.S. game. But in reading either of his books, Red or Green, he gives advice that applies very well in classrooms or home. Like: ‘It’s not what the teacher says, but what the student hears that matters.? And: ‘All people […]
Funny how our hated foods of youth become our favorites later on. Not, ‘ha-ha? funny, just peculiarly. When I was a lad, carrying my lunch to school 8 miles away, uphill both ways, mother frequently made up bean sandwiches. She’d mash navy beans left over from dinners and spread it between two slices of homemade […]
Monday, March 12, I turned on Fox Vews at 4 p.m. The tv screen was filled with a very strong fire. The news reader was talking excitedly about this blast. He said a gas or oil pipeline (he wasn’t sure which) had burst in Texas. For the next 15 minutes this event went from being […]
Are you ready to admit you are not as smart as a fifth grader? If you haven’t admitted it yet, perhaps you have missed the tv show, ‘Are you smarter than a fifth grader?? Thursday nights, primetime. I had it brought home to me in another way by our fifth grade granddaughter, Savannah Speed. Her […]
Open heart surgery left off Gov’s tax list, for now A recent Sunday newspaper featured a cartoon of a man burdened down with levels of tax hikes on his back. Standing behind him, erect and with shoulders thrown back, is Governor Jennifer Granholm. The caption reads, ‘Quit whining and show some backbone!? Elsewhere in the […]
The weatherman: love and dislike in same day We’re gonna? have weather, whether or not. We’re gonna? have weather predictors, whether or not. And, it is our right according to the First Amendment, the Book of James and restroom regulars to criticize and condemn said predictors. Besides that, weather’s a conversation starter, air filler and […]