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Vermiculture, they call it.  Basically, you keep some special worms in a box somewhere in your house, feed them your non-meat kitchen scraps, and get rewarded with a nice treat for your garden. Kathy and I tried it years ago, even using few scoops of their product, but then fell out of the habit ofContinue reading “feed my worms”

My Wolverines played a beautiful game yesterday at Crisler against the hated #9 Spartoons, who came in 1 point favorites and missed the spread by 10.  In the first 6 minutes they scored only 3 points, trailed buzzer to buzzer, and went the last 4 ½ minutes without sinking one bucket.  In a physical game,Continue reading “Juwan and us”

We adoptees are lucky people.  We get lucky right off the bat when some family chooses to take us in, transforming us instantly into wanted children.  Some of us get lucky in a different way when later in life we meet up with those who gave us ours.  Such was my good fortune almost 13Continue reading “Feeding the Speis”

My Michigan Alumni group teased me this morning by showing in anticipation of Valentine’s day pictures and stories of alums who had met at Michigan, asking for more stories. The latter proved to be a dead end. Maybe they’d had enough. I still went to their Facebook page and posted our story, after composing it.Continue reading “How we met”

Pertaining to 2/4/20 Quite a few months ago we figured this date would mark 33 and a third years since the day we wed.  Hard to let that one sneak by.  I put in in my phone and only a couple of days ago noticed it was coming up.  Warde Manuel and Juwan Howard hadContinue reading “33 and a third”

Saturday presented another new mystery.  The night before I’d found in the pile of stuff emptied from a box of Vicksburg memorabilia a manila folder containing press clippings describing the horrific 1968 accident that had killed 2 friends and classmates of mine plus 3 older boys.  I was so excited by the contents, I didContinue reading “Sonny and Jimmy”

Denise was the perfect woman for me.  Tall, smart, cute, athletic and right around the corner on Barton Lake.  Who knows what forces got me to make the trek over to her house to visit, but they must have been considerable.  Once there, in a season I don’t even recall except we weren’t going swimming,Continue reading “Dinner with the McCarthys”

Spinning through space, tomorrow February 2nd we in the Northern hemisphere find ourselves smack between the winter solstice, shortest day of the year, and the vernal equinox, when light and dark will be evenly split.  Yes, it’s getting lighter, and you should begin to be able to appreciate it.  The Celtic pagans called this dayContinue reading “cross quarter”