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Well kids – we have worked out the logistics for our new tower bays and we have just about enough money to cover the order. That is the good news. The bad news (of course there is always bad with the good) is we may not be able to install them until June – if […]
Reading Rik Emmitt’s biography Lay It On The Line (ECW Press – 2023), I especially enjoyed the tales he recounted from various bands he was in over more than fifty years in the music biz. I am not just talking about high profile shows with the band Triumph, but various anecdotes going all the way […]
Having done a couple of quizzes about songs and lyrics, I will take a different tact on this outing about Saturday Night Live. AARP – The Magazine ran a ‘test your knowledge of five decades of Saturday Night Live’ feature recently. Using their quiz, I am going to do a Johnny Carson ‘Carnac the […]
I mourn the loss of brick and motar bookstores. Book World in downtown Houghton was my favorite because when we would stop by to browse, I always managed to find the newest issue of Classic Rock Magazine or Mojo to keep me in touch with the music scene. When the entire Book World franchise […]
Even if school wasn’t your favorite place to be growing up, I am going to lay odds that you have memories of at least one of your teachers. While attending school was always one of those things we were mandated to do before we were set free into ‘the real world’, there were always […]
On one of the occasions when my mother’s father was staying with us for a few days back in the mid-1960s, I had an interesting discussion with him while playing cribbage. Grandpa was never overly talkative so it took a bit to get him to carry on a conversation. With the CBS news about […]
With the results of the Upper Peninsula Track Finals in the books, let us say ‘congratulations’ to all of those who toil in the world of Track and Field. No other sport I can think of demands as much personal discipline as being a track athlete. Reading the results a couple of weeks ago […]
In FTV: Student Teachers (4-10-24), I recounted some of my experiences with the rite of passage called ‘student teaching’. The state wants teaching candidates vetted in an actual classroom setting before signing off and giving them a license to teach. Usually one decides whether or not they want to pursue a career in teaching before […]
Back in June of 2023, the first part of FTV: Misplaced (6-21-23) discussed the 25 years we took our Ontonagon Area Schools eighth graders on an annual orienteering hike in the Porcupine Mountains. In orienteering, we used map and compass skills to travel from point to point without relying on trails, trail markers, or […]
Growing up, we had dogs for more years than we did not. The first one I remember was a purebred Black Lab named Duke. I learned later that ‘Duke’ was a shortened version of his full name that sounded more like a loyal English subject of high ranking, but neither my mother or father could […]