Posts Tagged ‘mark’s remarks’

As we prepared for our recent move, it was interesting to see what we had kept around, and also interesting to realize what we no longer valued and decided to…

With four kids, Michelle and I weren’t always up on things – especially when it came to losing teeth and getting the kids compensated for their lost teeth. Around late…

Have you ever heard the song “Santa, Teach Me to Dance”?  I listened to it the other day and can’t really understand why it didn’t catch on.   Sure, it…

I think I’ve written more than one column over the years on the rushing of the holiday and the commercialization of Christmas.   It doesn’t get me anywhere. People agree…

I’ve told you before about my little apartment when I was in college. I found out about this upstairs apartment from a co-worker at my part time job and after…

I had an extensive and hilarious response from last year’s “non-thankful” column, so I thought I’d do it again. Since I take notes when I get good ideas, and because…

When I was in school, we had a group of teachers who most of us thought must be at least 90 years old. I mean, they seemed ancient to us.…

I’ve been dragging my patootie out of bed long before the sun comes up since mid-summer.  You see, I finally made a plan I could stick to and finally collaborated…

Here we go again. Several years ago, I wrote two consecutive columns about moving to a new house.   One person I know well said “Don’t write about moving again.”…

I’ve had someone tell me more than once this past weekend that I’m getting old.  Last week’s column was about being too old to keep up with life in general.…

I might have written about an outing some of our friends went on a few years ago. We have been chumming around since our twenties, which is quite a blessing. …

Back in the day, television stations often showed some type of lunchtime show for kids with cartoons and shenanigans. It was especially common practice in larger cities, where kids walked…