“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.” – T.S. Eliot (From the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock) Yesterday’s Coffee, as a blog title, has been brewing on the back burner of my mind since last summer, when Maria Stuart of LivingstonTalk.com — the new online community for Michigan’s Livingston County – asked me to blog.  I...
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Do you run into prospective partners who still don’t recognize that the success of their business hinges on whether they invest in a professional digital presence? Maybe they didn’t catch a recent article in the LA Times which discussed that very topic! Writer Andrea Chang points to a National Retail Federation study whose findings showed that Web sales have...
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I just spent the most wonderful weekend with a good friend, a few good tools, inks and pretty papers! My friend Cathy and I made plans to spend the weekend crafting, eating and relaxing at Sunset Shores in Clare. It was just the two of us so I invited Dennis to join us – he packed a good book and...
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Author’s Warning: Do NOT let your kids read this. Which means your kids are probably totally going to want to read this now but don’t let them. It is 3 o’clock in the morning, and I’m in a tent somewhere behind the Fowlerville Fairgrounds with Jeff, a very cute tattoo artist I met only a couple hours ago. Tiny...
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The Fifth-Annual Brighton Smokin’ Jazz & Barbecue Blues Festival starts wailing at 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 10. The immensely popular festival of blues and barbecue takes place throughout downtown Brighton. For a preview of some music you might hear, take a listen to “Nice Guys Finish Last,” or other songs from the latest album of Detroit’s own Johnnie Bassett,...
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Police say 4-year-old Dominick Calhoun was tortured to death by his mother’s boyfriend in the spring. At the end of March, Dominick’s 25-year-old mother moved with him and his 8-year-old brother into the apartment of her boyfriend, a 24-year-old ex-con who was a couple months out of prison. Less than two weeks later, after four days of unimaginable horror,...
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I didn’t know Kerry Hutchins, but her death has touched me deeply, as it will you. Watching this video will make you all too aware of how precious the gift of life is. The young mother from the west side of the state died Saturday at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor, where she had lived...
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Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Homes once said that the “life of the law is not logic, but experience.” What he said about the law might well be applied to the debate about a Muslim mosque near Ground Zero. I am puzzled by the Muslim insistence on putting up a mosque at the 9/11 site when more than two-thirds...
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