Mark’s Remarks

My brother and I have had issues with giggling for a long time. We have a mutual twisted sense of humor and if one of us goes off the rails…

eing the victim is a lot of fun sometimes. You often get a lot of attention, at least for a while, from people who rally around you, feel sorry for…

It’s funny how things occur to you when you are older, and you think “Wow. If I’d only known.” Am I right? How often did you assume something that you…

Regardless of how old we are or what era we grew up in, we all would like to be more trusting than we really should be. This fall, Michelle and…

There’s a lot of reflecting after one retires from a job, I think.   You, of course, always wonder how things could have been different. You look back on things…

We all had aspirations of careers that appealed to us when we were kids.   My oldest wanted to work in a grocery store and run the cash register.  I…

This week, I read an article written by Amy Betters-Midtvedt, an author and former teacher who has written books about raising kids, teaching, and life in general. I don’t agree…

I used to laugh at older folks who got in such a tizzy about cell phones or computers.  Being a “tweener,” I came along on sort of the tail end…

When I was growing up, I often remember how my family bragged about good manners.  I came from hard-working farm folk, and clean houses, clean cars, clean kids and good…

OK, so it may not be an obsession but since I’m considered a journalist, I thought I’d go the route of sensationalism and try to get ratings for this column.…

Sometimes I start telling stories to my friends or family, and as I’m telling the story, what seems to be a normal reminiscing turns into a tale in which the…