Sister A vicious lion, A timid kitten, A harsh cold night, A warm woolen mitten. A baby’s head, so loving and weak. A pillow awaiting my aching feet. She’s the book you can’t put down. When I’ve got troubles, she’s always ground. Her heart’s an oyster holding a pearl. The best kind of friend to …
Baby Boomers Singles Club
My Baby Boomers Singles Club introduction was informative but socially unremarkable. I’d estimate there were about sixty new people. There were approximately fifty women and ten men. If the entire 1,160 members are made up of a similar ratio of women to men, there are potentially 962 women members. If that’s true, there must be …
Marie
There’s a new person in my life, Marie. We’d met before, years ago when I was in high school. Funny how old friends circle around when you can use them the most. We were never close. We met the first time when I worked as a stock boy at National Foods. I was just a …
One Mississippi
When I was growing up and we were playing touch football, the linemen had to count one, one-thousand, two, one-thousand, three, one thousand, etc. before they could rush the quarterback. We didn’t have enough kids to play all of the positions, so we usually went with a center, a quarterback, and a receiver. The count …
16 Years Old
Eva turned 16 yesterday. Like most sixteen-year-olds she’s happy to have her driver’s license. She’s been saving to purchase a car. She and her brother, Brady, are very different in that regard. Eva is a saver and Brady does his best to keep the economy going. Over the past several months, I’ve seen a big …
Dear David,
Dear David, You probably aren’t aware of this yet. It may hit you tomorrow, or later in the week, but your life is about to change – BIG TIME. You’ve been driving Brady and Eva to school for years. You stopped driving Brady when he got his own car. Eva’s driving days are beginning Tuesday …
15 Weeks
Shortly after I retired, I shared some retirement ideas with my three children and their spouses. Ruth and I would spend fifteen weeks a year with each one of them. Realizing that fifteen weeks could be a bit overwhelming, I told them that it didn’t have to be fifteen consecutive weeks, but rather, they could …
Baby Steps
After Ruth’s accident I made a personal vow to take things slowly. I wouldn’t make any big changes for at least a year. I’d seen others make changes too fast that they later regretted. I didn’t want to put anyone through life altering events that we weren’t prepared to handle. Keeping both my Michigan and …
The Tamarack Gallery
During the summer of 2018, when Elizabeth and Sutton began their fifteen-month musical tour, Ruth and I were members of their groupies. We followed them around the State to catch a few of their shows. We took several side trips, especially in northern Michigan, as we enjoyed the beautiful scenery and local attractions. On one …
I Find That Comforting
About a month ago, I drove to a friend, Craig’s, house in Jackson. I planned to arrive between 5:00 and 5:15 so I was very cognizant of the time. I arrived at 5:05. Craig and I had a cocktail before heading out to pick up his dad, my friend, Ed. I was driving and as …