Wahoo! 1,010 hits and it’s not midnight yet. I’d like to thank my mom and my wife and Rachel Maddow and Reddit and… I’m just sayin’… ===============UPDATE: Final count is… 2,163! Wow.

Happy Valentines Day. Appropriately represented by my wife’s awesome photo ;) Pucker up!Originally uploaded by Ånne

Sopranos on DVD, popcorn and martinis. Happy Saturday ;) I’m just sayin’…

I’ve recently had the honor of being invited to be a front page blogger for the Blogging For Michigan website. It’s really flattering to be asked and I’m thrilled to join their ranks. Stop by and check us out! I’m just sayin’…

Here’s Rudy, checking out the Daily Kos. Long-feathered hippy freak. I’m just sayin’…

Yeah, so, well… Want to help me out? This is a big ask. Click on the image below and it will take you to bookrix.com where you can read and vote for my short story “Two North”. You will need to sign up for a (quick, free) membership to do it. Please click through and read the story before voting. […]

I have an iTunes playlist of over 250 Christmas/holiday songs and some of my favorites are what I consider to be “out of the ordinary” — songs you won’t likely hear on the radio. Below are some of my favorites along with a brief review of each. Enjoy and here’s wishing a very Happy Holiday season to all my friends! […]

I wasn’t sure how to break THIS NEWS to my two dogs. [S]pecialists in sustainable living at Victoria University of Wellington, analysed popular brands of pet food and calculated that a medium-sized dog eats around 164 kilos (360 pounds) of meat and 95 kilos of cereal a year. Combine the land required to generate its food and a “medium” sized […]

To paraphrase Roberto Clemente (and Garret Morris), Michigan summers have been berry, berry good to us. For years now, my wife and I spend time each summer picking black raspberry, blueberries, blackberries, cherries, peaches and other fruits from Michigan’s wonderful summer bounty. Then, each fall we process them into homemade jams and yesterday was such a day. [All photos by […]

One of the things I am absolutely the most thankful for in my life is my mom. She’s passed now, taken by cancer and a short lifetime of living on the edge. Some of her story can be found at my blog Eclectacopia. “Two North” is a story about one Christmas when my mom was spending time on the psychiatric […]

Mrs. E and I spent all of last week in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. We spent one night at the Blind Sucker Flooding State Forest Campground where we saw two bald eagles and a black bear. We spent three absolutely fabulous days backpacking on Grand Island, a National Recreation Area where we had a campsite right on the beach […]