But, first, some advice for my college-going grandson and anyone else who wants it: Few things are more satisfying than setting a goal and achieving it. – – – 0 – – – Last week I closed by promising to convince myself I’m on the right side of the sod. Last week I complained of […]
Hang on! There’s bound to be something relative I’m going to start thinking positive, but I know it won’t work. ? I know it can’t be just me, but when I see a headline on an editorial page that says something like ‘Michigan in need of hardy dose of reality? I first check the ending. […]
We all have days when the fact we’re on the right side of the sod escapes our minds. I just wrote one of the things that bothers me. I can’t prove we all have down days, and I can’t prove it is best to be on this side of the sod. All inclusive statements presumed […]
In a September edition of Jottings, I wrote about finding articles about Henry Ford that first appeared in the Detroit Free Press in 1938. Iffy The Dopester (Free Press editor Malcolm Bingay) headed the six-part series, Who does Henry Ford Think He Is? I may cover all six parts in time, but I don’t want […]
A chickadee passed along an item about aprons that brought back memories of Mom on the Farm. You know, the good ol? days when mothers did everything that didn’t require a team, tractor or doodlebug. Moms did fetchin?, hoein?, milkin?, cookin?, pumpin?, laundry, etc. And they did it all in aprons. During our married life […]
Here to inform and be a little offensive Was learning cursive really necessary? It’s become a habit for me to tune in Channel 7 (ABC) at 5 p.m. to see and hear the local area news. Unfortunately, I’m often a bit early, which gives me the last few minutes of the Oprah Winfrey Show. In […]
What’s Shayna thinking? Maybe this . . . My boss (joke) didn’t get his morning paper on Friday the 13th. He blamed me and told me so. There’s something wrong with that study in England that said I can remember 200 words. I distinctly remember a dog trainer telling my feeder I have a 15 […]
A Jottings re-run: Playing 6-man football (Since we are now in the height of the high school, college and professional football seasons, I thought it would be nice to rerun this column from August 22, 1965. — Jim Sherman, Sr.) Being a plus-200 pounder and it being football season, I’m often asked if I played […]
Some can’t take a rib, others take whole slab This headline of August 8 captured my mind: ‘Event features high-flying swine,? with the even more capturing subhead: ‘Pig Gig in Bay City offers diving, racing, even barbecued pork.? Anything doing with pigs brings backs remembrances of youth and our father’s fascination with hogs, particularly extra […]
This is the third in my series on Henry Ford, recounted from the 1938 Detroit Free Press columns by Iffy The Dopester (Malcomb Bingay.) Titled ‘Who does Henry Ford think he is?” We first repeated the story of Ford rejecting the New Dealers early in the century, then came his $5 a day plan, then […]