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By the time you read this article, I will be unemployed for only the second time since 1970. Okay, being retired isn’t exactly like being unemployed, but it probably will feel like it for at least a little while. I actually began putting together my thoughts about ‘tomorrow’ well in advance of my actual […]
Warning: If you are able to identify the person named in the title above, you are about to confront an age old conundrum. (or perhaps it is an old age conundrum). It goes like this: If you make a cultural reference and no one else in the room has any idea what you are talking […]
We always equated the beginning of the next school year with the start up of marching band in August. The summer after my junior year, we had made plans to march in the Marquette Fourth of July parade as a prelude to taking a band trip to march in two parades at the Traverse […]
Is there a pivotal year in one’s four years of high school? Freshman year is always a swirl of new activities and if one keeps their head down and eyes open, one can learn a lot from those mature upperclassmen. Sophomore year is less of a mystery because at least some of the school […]
Paging through the January 3, 2018 issue of Radio World, a bunch of cartoons jump off the page and caught my eye. My first thought was, “This guy’s style reminds me a lot of Dan Rosandich’s work. A glance at the articles byline told me why: the cartoons were drawn by Rosandich and used […]
The ecological implications of the phrase ‘going paperless’ are obvious but it somehow hasn’t worked out exactly as planned. Admittedly, there are many organizations that give their members the ‘electronic delivery’ option. Off the top of my head, local groups like The Friends of the Porkies and the Ontonagon County Historical Society come to […]
What began as an innocent swamping out of our linen closet turned into an adventure when I discovered the long missing high school annuals from my days at Marquette Senior High. The summary from my freshman year was kind of fun and it was surprising how many little details popped into my head perusing […]
I idly wrote the title of this FTV one day when thinking back about hauling my drum set around over the years. Like the kid who decides to play the tuba in the school band, one does not sling a drum set under one’s arm and walk home after school. Luckily for me, the school […]
If there are tasks that breed procrastination more than cleaning closets, I can’t think of any. When one views this process as a form of exploration, however, there is a plus side. Our long neglected linen closet recently yielded a source of entertainment that had not seen the light of day for at least […]
It is the summer of 1967. Herman’s Hermits and The Who are touring the United States. Which band is the opener and which is the headliner? This is a trick question because technically, the opening band was The Blues Magoos with The Who second on the bill and Peter Noones’ lightweight pop band Herman’s […]