It's not only likely but very probable that Rush Limbaugh won't be hosting a talk radio program this time next year. And not because I expect any significant impact from efforts to boycott his advertisers. Nor results of petitioning affiliate stations, such as our own WJR 760 AM here in ...
In 1952, Jan. 15 was a Tuesday. Some time that day, Ian Fleming put a blank sheet of paper into his well-used portable typewriter and literally created James Bond. Ten years and one day later, Sean Connery brought that character to life (so to speak) when the initial day of ...
Truly unique wristwatches, distinguished by the individual stories behind them, attract increasing collector attention. There's a National Watch & Clock Museum in Pennsylvania, housing the largest collection of timepieces outside of Switzerland. Three years ago, its special exhibit of watches worn by U.S. Presidents commanded some of the largest visitor ...
By a vote of 41 to 1 this past Thursday, board members of the Great Sauk Trail Council, Boy Scouts of America (BSA) voted to recommend that its constituent groups approve measures to disband our council effective Jan. 1, 2012.
Your Bobbers Down, an ice-fishing tackle business, was granted a special use permit to open a retail outlet by the Saline City Council on Monday night. Jamie Olson, the business owner, wants to use about 360 square feet for retail sales at the space he’s leasing at 1400 E. Michigan ...
Tonight is Day 15 of Top of the Park, the popular, free (donations welcome) outdoor happening featuring music, movies, kicking back, running into friends, and a variety of other attractions. Each day in cooperation with the Ann Arbor Summer Festival—which presents Top of the Park as well as main-stage ticketed ...
To me things such as this always start with Fleming. Ian Fleming’s stepdaughter Fionn has become a good friend of mine over the years. Subtle reminders of the James Bond creator tastefully appoint her home. Photos you’ve never seen published, adorn certain walls. During my last visit, not much over ...
James Bond returned to London last Thursday, through release of the latest 007 novel Carte Blanche, by author Jeffery Deaver. Fans in the United States will have to wait until June 14 before that book is available to the general public here. However— the actual wristwatch worn by Bond-creator Ian ...
This Thursday, your local Huron Trails District for the Boy Scouts of America will once again offer its annual training to prepare registered adult leaders to support the transition for our lads from Cub Scouts into Boy Scouts.Before talking mechanics here, I’d like us to imagine looking back on this ...
One of the more common passages of Scripture you’ll hear cited on the divorce-recovery circuit is from Genesis 50:20: “You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.” The historical context of this is the story ...
Francis and his wife Stephanie came to me for help in mediating their divorce settlement almost ten years ago. By mutual agreement — supported by a healthy firewall between information shared by either side — I’ve continued to work with each of them, individually, on ad hoc issues as they arise. That’s actually quite ironic. In all those years, working with me is the only point on which they’ve ever seemed to agree. They practice what I’ve labeled “over-the-transom” co-parenting. Researcher E. Mavis Hetherington calls it “parallel.” It’s practiced by half of all divorced parents: They “simply ignore each other.” In Francis’ case, however, he seemed to do this with a bit more vigor.
One of the more fascinating Bible stories to me is one where God’s people build a golden calf to worship in His absence. It speaks to both the what have you done for me lately? trap, and the power of that woefully underutilized communication skill called silence. Surely we all remember the book of Exodus, with plagues brought down upon Pharaoh, Moses’ parting of the sea, and water from a rock. God provided consistently and abundantly. Then there were forty days and forty nights of no communication, as God took Moses aside for private instruction. That’s all it took for the Israelites to quickly turn from His commands at Exodus 32:1 and following. Oh, my—.
Earlier yesterday a Tweet came up on one of my Twitter accounts. The Tweet promised to enlighten me, and all other followers, on the “networking” value of a breakfast its parent association had just held. Valuable stuff, we were assured. Personally, I don’t Digg such things. First off, I’m not ...
It almost seems wrong to have the Boy Scout Handbook on my iPhone 4 now. Maybe it’s some visceral mental bias that insists on the tactile sensations of turning pages, scribbling handwritten notes in the margins. Or fear that I’ll get campfire soot on the smart phone screen with each ...
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