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A Born Loser cartoon from some time ago showed Brutus Thornapple (aka: The Born Loser) walking waist deep along a snowlined sidewalk. He was recounting how the snow had been deeper and the snow banks higher when he was a kid. Trailing behind is his son Wilberforce, but of course, all you can see of […]
Prior to the 40th Annual JH Student Council Halloween Carnival, this space ran a history of how the whole affair began in the fall of 1979 (FTV – Halloween Carnival 10-31-18). While previewing the 2018 edition of the carnival, I realized that there were a lot of games that did not get mentioned in that […]
When John Mellencamp’s hit single Little Pink Houses shot up the record charts, I liked it immediately. Why? Like the lyrics suggest, I actually did grow up in a pink house. At the time it wasn’t my favorite color, especially when we did one of those elementary school art projects were we were asked to […]
Ten years ago, my wife and son got me one of those birth year cards entitled, “1953 – Remember When . . . A Nostalgic Look Back in Time”. I rediscovered it in the summer of 2018 while rifling through miscellaneous files of cards and things that had been waiting for me to sort out […]
My first two wheeler bike was a small green hand me down with training wheels. After a very short time watching me wobble along on the gravel street in front of our house, my dad pulled the old, “Let’s take off the training wheels and I will hold on to the seat until you […]
It was great to see the Ontonagon/ETC football cooperative claw their way to a spot in the 8-man football playoffs in 2017. The 2018 season was a little rockier, but Coach Ben Mayer’s charges still played some good football. Scoring in 8-man football can come in bunches, but there were enough golden moments to […]
We always heard bass player Mike arrive at our Sledgehammer rehearsals before we saw him. Our basement on Summit Street was exposed on the east side of our one story home making that side of our house two stories. The driveway dipped down from the street to the garage on the lower level that […]
Are there unexplained things in the Universe? The short answer to this question would no doubt be, “Ummm, yeah!” and judging by the number of “Unexplained this” and “Paranormal that” programs that dot the airwaves, the unknown is doing a healthy business. Toss in books, magazines, movies, and a zillion web pages devoted to […]
My newest set of glasses are a tad wider than my last pair so I was a little shocked to look in the mirror one day and see two scars on the outside corner of my left eyelid. I also noticed a third right below my lower lip. I guess what startled me is […]
If you are not a hardcore Star Trek fan, then you have no reason to recognize the name Bjo Trimble. If you are a red (or perhaps green) blooded Trekkie, then you probably already know that she is the woman who saved the program from being canceled after its second season. She had a […]