October 26, 2021 Kissing the Frog – Entire Book Kissing the Frog, Chapter 1 – Moor and More Kissing the Frog: Chapter 2 – Moor and More Kissing the Frog: Chapter 3 –…
October 25, 2021 Moor or Less: Every T-shirt tells a story I’ve never been much of a collector. Sure, I collected baseball cards when I was a kid, but failed miserably with stamps and coins….
October 23, 2021 Kissing the Frog: Chapters 22-25 (final) CHAPTER 22 I got up at 5:30 the next morning after a restless night. Lots of crazy dreams. The one I remember most was…
October 21, 2021 Kissing the Frog: Chapters 16-18 CHAPTER 16 I wasn’t looking forward all that much to our drive to school. “So maybe this is the time that Sally will want…
October 16, 2021 Moor or Less: Back together after 70 years Jerry Mueller thought he had found his soulmate right there in his hometown of Bay City, Mich. Her name was Jean Arndt and she…
October 14, 2021 Remembering a friend’s unconventional life: Both his writing and career took many turns I usually don’t write tributes. I’m suspicious of them. Too often, I know the person being featured, and their life stories end up sounding…
October 12, 2021 Kissing the Frog: Chapters 19-21 CHAPTER 19 Kelly drove us home. I sat in the back, of course. It doesn’t matter who’s in a car with me. If there…
October 6, 2021 Moor or Less: A book on a President, parasite and professor Thomas Platt, a retired Saint Mary’s College biology professor, named a parasite he had identified after a cousin — actually a fifth cousin, twice…
October 3, 2021 Sara Stewart feeds and unites a community Sara Stewart’s journey with Unity Gardens is well-known, but it deserves repeating. In 2008, she was a public health nurse and educator when she…
October 2, 2021 My lessons from the softball parking lot The best lesson I learned about retirement didn’t come from a seminar or an AARP Magazine. It came from a guy named Mike who…
October 1, 2021 Jerry talked a good game — and played one, too Jerry Flanagan was wearing his green Erskine Golf Course sweater with a golf tee placed in one hand and an ancient pocket watch in…