I spent my first ten years of life on a small quarter section family dairy farm in Eaton County, Michigan with a sister two years younger. Being a kid on a farm is one great adventure after another but things can get a bit out of hand when the parents are not around. One summer … [Read more...]

How rude! Of all the offensive surveys to be conducted, this one claims that Americans are inconsiderate jerks. Yeah, well, you can just take that and ... Oops. That would be too rude to say. But the crummy survey deserves it. In a telephone poll conducted this year by the … [Read more...]

As many 50-something women find, their lower internal organs begin to drop, droop, sag, bag and demand attention, and do not ignore the familiar signs of urgency and/or wet knickers. A few days after arriving in Bangkok, Thailand, while shopping at Robinson’s Department Store, I … [Read more...]

The world is a very unfair place for big kids. Besides all of the jokes and teasing, there is one thing that no one ever considers…and that’s what happens when you play music. When you’re big, you want to kind of blend in and there’s no better place to blend in than the marching … [Read more...]