Elizabeth’s birthday is today. She was born on March 10, 1977. David was twenty days short of turning two and Michael followed BZ exactly fifteen months later. Ruth and I were knocking on 30’s door. The 10th was a Thursday. Ruth had taught through the prior Friday, beginning her maternity leave that day. She visited …
Eyes on the Prize
When I went off to college in the fall of 1965 I planned to become an attorney. I really didn’t know what an attorney did other than wear a suit to work and use his brain rather than his back to make a living. Most of the men I knew used their back. I had …
Coffee’s Ready
When I was a kid my mom and dad had a percolator to make coffee. They put water in the pot, ground coffee in a metal basket, inserted the basket into a metal tube that fit inside the percolator bottom, put the top on the percolator, placed the percolator on the kitchen stove, and fired …
Again
The 27th of the month has had a new meaning for me for the past several months. This month’s 27th meant Young Jackson James turned two-years and eleven months old. It also marked the seventeenth month since Ruth’s accident. Last month I completed a blog on the morning of the twenty-seventh. The final touch was …
Bishop Bob
Canadian Lakes and the Tullymore Country Club are in the middle of Amish country. I’m not sure what the Amish population is, but there are miles of Amish farms near us. If you come to visit, you’ll encounter a buggy, or two, no matter where you go. We had similar buggies near our Lake LeAnn …
Dear Jackie,
Dear Jackie, As your older brother, I think I should set you straight on a couple of things. I can’t tell you how disappointed I was on the day you were born. It was a Saturday in February, but for the past seventy years I’m never sure if it fell on the 20th or the …
I Shall Attend
One of the perks of being elementary principal in Addison was a “shall” provision of my contract. It said that I “shall” attend State and National conferences each year. It wasn’t may or might but “shall”. I had to go. When I landed in Britton, my contract didn’t say “shall”, but I received the ok …
I Just Had to Tell
I played golf with three men in The Villages last Sunday. They knew each other but I didn’t know them. We introduced ourselves and that’s when I noticed the logo shirt one of the guys was wearing. I waited until the second hole to say, “So, you’re a local celebrity.” he denied the status, but …
Stevie McVie
Elizabeth, Sutton and their dog, Jonesy, lived in Florida for four months from December of 2018 through March of 2019. The prior summer they stayed with Ruth and me in our Michigan home. Beginning in April of 2019, they lived with us in Michigan for another sixteen weeks. Florida was sandwiched between their two Michigan …
It’s Just Coffee
When I began my look into meeting new women on a dating site, I moved forward cautiously. It was new territory, and I didn’t want to make any wrong moves. Turns out I haven’t made many moves at all. The ones I had in my youth are gone. Over the past several months I’ve seen …