Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving! I’ll be back next week (my column has alrerady been penned!)
Maybe a confession will diffuse my fears
Played golf recently with a couple named Paul and Karin March. In this league we don’t talk golf while playing golf. The conversation got to life and television. Karin said, ‘I’ll know when Paul dies, because if the clicker doesn’t change the channel in 10 seconds he’ll be dead.? Later that thought took me to […]
Yes, sometimes I spoil ma’dog, Shayna
When I go away for a few days and leave ma’dog Shayna at a kennel, I solicit a promise that she will be given ice cream every other day. It doesn’t have to be expensive ice cream. At Lori’s bath house I request human fragrances, like my after shave. It doesn’t have to be Armani […]
There were 7 bad words, now there are six
Several years ago comedian George Carlin did a routine on the seven words you can never say on television. I didn’t go, but one of his appearances was at the Fisher in Detroit. Jim Fizgerald, now retired back-page columnist for the Free Press, went just to make sure he knew them all. Recently someone sent […]
There’s a sports team-depression connection
There’s a sports team-depression connection As you regular, or irregular, readers of this column know, I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer, brightest bulb on your Christmas tree, nor does my mind see the obvious. All of which give me reason not to realize the cause of many of Michigan’s sport teams to tank […]
There’s a sports team-depression connection
As you regular, or irregular, readers of this column know, I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer, brightest bulb on your Christmas tree, nor does my mind see the obvious. All of which give me reason not to realize the cause of many of Michigan’s sport teams to tank this year. Why have the […]
So, how’s your water?
The building housing The Citizen newspaper in Ortonville has its own well. As such, it is checked four times a year by the county and once a year by the state for tadpoles, roe and other swimmy things. A lady named Jeanine with the county environmental department checks the checking. She’s probably not allowed to […]
Jim’s Jottings
Big Jim is busy buying, wrapping and hiding presents from his dog Shayna. His column returns next week . . . stay turned!
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Golfers look forward to the day they can shoot their age. I play golf three times a week in groups with Fran Bertram, 81, and once a week with John Patrell, 80. Fran has been shooting his age over 10 years (and still is) some 150-plus times. John took 13 holes to shoot his age […]
Happy New Year from the Grandkids!
When we first started this Jim’s Jottings holiday tradition, the two grandchildren pictured on the wall (Dan and Karen Offer) were small enough to fit on my knees. It was 1988. Dan was 3-years-old and Karen was four-months-old. In that first picture, Karen had no hair, I had more and I still wore a suit […]