I’m sure you have noticed how words we have always known to be off-color have made their way into prime time television. While this has been happening more and more in the electronic media, it has been kept out of the newspaper end of the media, for the most part. A viewer no longer has […]
I’m sure I’ve missed opening Michigan’s trout fishing season, but I can’t remember it. It’s been a ritual, a habit and magnet to the north. Every year the anticipation of the opening erased the memories of numerous openers when the clever fish have eluded my lures. Of course, fishing, like deer hunting, is more about […]
It’s been over three weeks since Jottings has been live, and in a way that’s good. Had we been live recently, chances are we would have offered two gift ideas that would lighten your change drawer, while being totally unnecessary. Some days before Christmas, Hallmark’s Holiday Gifts folder came in my mail. Not having been […]
CCES can figure your household emissions I want to revisit the carbon credit program I mentioned in last week’s Jottings. In case you missed it, I wrote that the Hiawatha Sportsmans Club I belong to got $250,000 for selling carbon credits. The purchaser, and even you, can buy carbon credits through the Carbon Credit Environmental […]
I want to revisit the carbon credit program I mentioned in last week’s Jottings. In case you missed it, I wrote that the Hiawatha Sportsmans Club I belong to got $250,000 for selling carbon credits. The purchaser, and even you, can buy carbon credits through the Carbon Credit Environmental Services (CCES) in Detroit. That could […]
1,000 people die each year from flu vaccinations. 20,000 people die each year from the flu. Now comes a flu named after a pig, then changed so as not to offend swine; 100 have died from it, but it got our attention away from depressions, war and global warming. One (me) can only wonder why […]
Merry Christmas from me, the grandchildren and the family canine, Shayna. Christmas is for the young at heart and helping my ticker stay young are, from the left, Haley Speed, Dan Offer, Savannah Speed, Karen Offer and Trevor Speed. Here’s to hoping all readers have the warmest, love-filled holiday ever. Again, Merry Christmas!
There was a time when multi-colored lights that twinkled in the night were the mainstay of Christmas outdoor decorating. But it appears a new contender is challenging exterior illumination’s throne ? the inflatable. They come in all shapes and sizes featuring giant snow globes, Santas, snowmen, even Simpson’s cartoon characters. You can see them all […]
December 14, 1967 I wrote . . . I always liked to walk in the rain. It’s almost as relaxing as lying in the top bunk of a cabin in the north woods, with the un-insulated roof close above and just listening to the raindrops splash on the asphalt shingles. Or, sitting under a pine […]
1,000 people die each year from flu vaccinations. 20,000 people die each year from the flu. Now comes a flu named after a pig, then changed so as not to offend swine; 100 have died from it, but it got our attention away from depressions, war and global warming. One (me) can only wonder why […]